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Bradly Mason
Bradly Mason
@AlsoACarpenter
1. The basic scientific fact of Critical Race Theory is that “race” is a biological fiction and an socio-historical construction.

2. The basic historical fact of Critical Race Theory is that “race” was created and legislated for specific and demonstrable purposes.

3. The basic sociological fact of Critical Race Theory is that the creation of “race” was subordinating & has created a human social hierarchy which has affected, even structured, our most basic social systems, including law, citizenship, labor, human geography, and institutions.

4. The basic economic fact of Critical Race Theory is that vast society-wide disparities exist along the socio-historically created biological fiction that is “race.”

5. The basic moral fact of Critical Race Theory is that socially constructed “racial” hierarchies are not a just basis for distributing rights, privileges, advantages, and disadvantages.
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Bradly Mason
Bradly Mason
@AlsoACarpenter
Okay, let's do this summary again since there seems to be a collective amnesia relating to Christian Abolitionism in America.

Here again is a summary of the Christian Abolitionists’ arguments against enslavers’ appeals to the Scripture: Thread
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Bradly Mason
Bradly Mason
@AlsoACarpenter
It is truly sad how little folks understand about the Civil Rights Movement and message. How could he have not spent the time to read and learn the tradition before beginning his silly inquisition?

And to invoke Dr. King for his cause is just so ignorant. 1/


2/ What did the REAL King teach?

"The dilemma of white America is the source and cause of the dilemma of Negro America. Just as the ambivalence of white Americans grows out of their oppressor status, the predicament of Negro Americans grows out of their oppressed status." (1967)

3/ Or, how about:

"[O]ne of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From the old plantations of the South to the newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make

4/ "decisions concerning his life and destiny, he has been subject to the authoritarian and sometimes whimsical decisions of the white power structure. The plantation and the ghetto were created by those who had power both to confine those who had no power and to perpetuate their

5/ "powerlessness. The problem of transforming the ghetto is, therefore, a problem of power—a confrontation between the forces of power demanding change and the forces of power dedicated to preserving the status quo. ...
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