Don's Tuesday Column

               THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson   Red Bluff Daily News   6/15/2021

Race theory from Obama to schools

“Hat tip” to our local California Federated Republican Women for noting Senate and Assembly bills impacting health care, homelessness, housing and the budget, which should concern all Tehama County voters. AB 369 creates an end-run around eligibility, ID and prior application to authorize billing for so-called “street medicine.” It will, no doubt, increase fraud.

SB 9 would remove local discretion over planned double-units on single family lots, going around the authority of local planning and zoning oversight on how many homes are allowed in a development.

Gov. Newsom’s budget relies on mostly one-time tax revenue and Federal stimulus for programs that will outlive said funding. Once started, programs live on; extra taxes will be needed. From who? You.

Of utmost concern is AB 101 establishing “Ethnic Studies Requirement for High School Graduation.” My April 20 column mentioned how the CA Board of Education recently began promoting and lobbying school districts to adopt Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC). However, lacking the force of state law, districts had some discretion over which ES program is used. ESMC is a thinly-veiled vehicle for injecting “Critical Race Theory” into our young students’ minds.

From my 4/20 column: “California county teacher training: U.S. a ‘parasitic’ system due to ‘invasion’ of white men” (Thecollegefix.com, 7/14). The article describes Santa Clara county’s implementation of California’s new ethnic studies curriculum. 

According to a new report by Christopher Rufo at City Journal, presenters at the Santa Clara workshops “encouraged teachers to inject left-wing politics into the classroom and to hide controversial materials from parents.” Give these leftist America-haters a generation of our children, and our nation is lost to the ash heap of Marxist/Communist slavery.

I won’t broadly castigate, or even suspect, local teachers and our school board of wanting to propagandize the captive audience of students. However, parents and teachers across America are raising alarms and making their demands known: Don’t even think about using precious classroom time to inject hatred or criticism of “whiteness,” America and our Constitutional rights and freedoms. Be polite, but insistent on specifics from school board members; don’t be patronized with bland assurances.

Don’t minimize the role that Critical Race Theory (CRT), or so-called “anti-racist” programs, play in undermining love for our nation, love and respect among different races, and the diabolical rewriting of America’s founding documents and narrative to implement an “Americanized Chinese Communist” society.

Democrats rolled out Barack Obama to perform his linguistic, ideological manipulation on that topic and on “voting integrity”—their losing position requires the Obama treatment. Most Americans would dismiss his attempts at 1) presenting CRT as non-controversial and benign; and 2) accusing Republicans and “certain right-wing media” outlets of “stoking the fear and resentment” of white Americans. It’s actually stoking minority hatred and resentment of whites.

Obama—to whom the white cop “acted stupidly,” and rural, white America is home to “bitter clingers” to guns and God—must not like the poll (Competitive Edge Research) showing nearly 4 in 10 don’t believe CRT is important to teach in schools; 3 in 10 thought it is. 30 percent didn’t know so a solid majority opposes it.

70% “did not think schools should teach children that their race is the most important thing about them.” Nearly 75% said schools should not teach that white people are “inherently privileged” and black people are inherently oppressed and victimized. Over 80% opposed assigning “privileged” or “oppressed” status by race.

Over 2/3rds “also said schools should not teach students that America was founded on racism, remains a structurally racist country today, and its racism is the cause of all differences in outcome and achievements between racial groups.” They also preferred capitalism to socialism by 2 to 1 (62% to31%). Look up “Democrats Enlist Obama to Defend Critical Race Theory,” by Mike LaChance, 6/9; and “Parents Are Revolting, Teachers Are Resigning, and Critical Race Theory Is to Blame,” by Tyler O’Neil, 6/10.

Finishing last week’s theme, Dr. Anthony Fauci has no credibility on the Covid, or Wuhan, Flu. First it was “masks are useless” (true); then “masking is the single best weapon” (false). First, travel restrictions from hot spots like China was unnecessary (false); then it was a good thing (true). First, the virus was from a Wuhan “wet market” bat (false); any assertions that it was a leak from Wuhan Institute of Virology were kooky conspiracy theories (false on stilts); now, the market-bat source is unprovable and the Wuhan lab seems like the source. First, Fauci urged school closings (bad); at the same time, he wrote “Children have very low rates of infection” (true).

First, Fauci denied overseeing money going from America to the lab—and certainly not for “gain-of-function” research to make viruses more lethal. Now, it was at least $1 million and no guarantees it wasn’t so used. The whole time, news media hacks and Trump-hating Dems parroted, “without evidence,” Fauci’s endless iterations. “UK Daily Mail: Study Claims Chinese Scientists Bioengineered Coronavirus—The researchers also assert Chinese scientists reverse-engineered versions of the virus to cover up their tracks after the pandemic began,” by Leslie Eastman (5/30).

When President Trump cited actual medical sources on the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine—“people will die” (hair on fire). Now, clinical studies show the drug cocktail improves mortality 2 to 3 times. It’s an “over-the-counter” anti-malarial treatment in Uganda: 9 deaths per million vs. U.S.A. at 1,848 deaths per million. Further nonbiased research needed.

Myths and lies yet to cover: “Voter Integrity” laws are vote-suppression tools; and the fake news that Trump had “peaceful protesters” tear-gassed to make way for a photo op at St. John’s church last June.