Oklahoma’s far-right superintendent has insisted that the Tulsa race massacre can be taught in public schools without amounting to “critical race theory”—so long as it’s taught without discussing race.
Well you could say that some Americans were racist against other Americans, and that the racists were violent, evil idiots who believed in a dumb idea that humans have meaningfully different races. That they further believed some of those races were superior to others (and they just happened to be in the “superior” race). That they were told over and over by their smarter fellow citizens that they were wrong. They had mixed success in enshrining their evil, idiotic beliefs into law (depending on how many of their fellow evil idiots lived in the area).
Lastly we could point out that in spite of all the road blocks the violent, evil, racist idiots put in the way of those other people, those people banned together and built a prosperous, thriving community in Tulsa called Greenwood. The violent, evil, racist idiots were so jealous and confused (because they were too evil and stupid to understand) that they got angry and attacked the peaceful, smart, prosperous people of Greenwood with guns and bombs and even used planes.
There, I never mentioned skin color.
Skin color is a handy shorthand, and clearly the violent, evil, racist idiots who attacked Greenwood thought it was a good shorthand.
Of course, there’s a really good chance that the people fighting “CRT” and “DEI” (neither of which can they probably define) are also violent, evil, racist idiots. So idiotic, in fact, that they think it’s impossible to talk about evil racism and the evil racists who like it without mentioning skin color.
You could probably get pretty far by referring to ‘ethnic Africans’ as well, or some similar phrasing, since ethnicity encompasses not just racial, but common national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin as well.
Well you could say that some Americans were racist against other Americans, and that the racists were violent, evil idiots who believed in a dumb idea that humans have meaningfully different races. That they further believed some of those races were superior to others (and they just happened to be in the “superior” race). That they were told over and over by their smarter fellow citizens that they were wrong. They had mixed success in enshrining their evil, idiotic beliefs into law (depending on how many of their fellow evil idiots lived in the area).
Lastly we could point out that in spite of all the road blocks the violent, evil, racist idiots put in the way of those other people, those people banned together and built a prosperous, thriving community in Tulsa called Greenwood. The violent, evil, racist idiots were so jealous and confused (because they were too evil and stupid to understand) that they got angry and attacked the peaceful, smart, prosperous people of Greenwood with guns and bombs and even used planes.
There, I never mentioned skin color.
Skin color is a handy shorthand, and clearly the violent, evil, racist idiots who attacked Greenwood thought it was a good shorthand.
Of course, there’s a really good chance that the people fighting “CRT” and “DEI” (neither of which can they probably define) are also violent, evil, racist idiots. So idiotic, in fact, that they think it’s impossible to talk about evil racism and the evil racists who like it without mentioning skin color.
“Which group were the evil ones?”
“Due to the laws of the state of Oklahoma, I am not permitted to tell you. But I’ll bet you can guess.”
You could probably get pretty far by referring to ‘ethnic Africans’ as well, or some similar phrasing, since ethnicity encompasses not just racial, but common national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin as well.