The 100 Year Plan

I recommend that you read John McWhorter’s most recent post. Here’s its opening:

The organization 1776Unites, founded by my mentor and model Bob Woodson, has tweeted out a video where various black people decry a now fashionable idea that “whiteness” includes being smart. As in, precise, objective, fond of the written word, oriented towards dispassion, on time.

Those things are all manifestations of intelligence, vigilance, discipline. But according to our Elect folk, we black people are best off channeling our Crazy Badass Mothafucka. Because that’s more “authentic.” And, I get the feeling, fun to watch.

Because so many think that the battle that I and others are waging against Critical Race Theory’s transmogrification into education for children is an obsession with something that isn’t a real problem, I want to explore a bit. Someone I deeply respect not long ago surmised to me that the idea that black kids should be exempt from real standards is something being promulgated via mere paper “handouts,” and that the real problem is censorship from the right. I just don’t think so.

First, watch this, the 1776Unites video. Just a few minutes.

And now, as to what we are referring to, it starts actually before last summer. I knew something was really wrong when in 2019 at a conference in New York City for the city’s principals and superintendents, participants were presented with an idea that to teach with sensitivity to race issues meant keeping certain issues in mind.

These included ways of looking at things that are “white” rather than correct: namely, objectivity, individualism, and valuing the written word. Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was fine with this, happily telling the media that it’s white people’s job to do the “work” of identifying the racist assumptions in how they go about their business.

Read the whole thing. And the video is short and to the point.

Confucius said that if your plan is a one year plan, plant rice. If your plan is a ten year plan, plant trees. If your plan is a 100 year plan, teach children. Some children are being taught today that that are incapable of learning. That harm will be with us for decades. It should never have started let alone be admired or allowed to continue.

The countries with which we will compete in the years to come aren’t being burdened with such pseudo-scientific, pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-caring claptrap. It needs to be rejected in no uncertain terms.