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But it would be a mistake to suppose that Hunter Shackelford is an exception.  Far from it.  Denunciations of white people have become both routine and acceptable.  And these denunciations come, not from some dark corner of the internet of from obscure figures.  In many cases, they come from the lofty heights of corporate C-Suits, from the offices of college deans and presidents, and from prominent politicians. To this group, one can add media outlets, the military, Museums, entertainers, political think tanks, professionals of one sort or another, and even putatively Bible believing preachers. 

Here are a few of the most shocking examples blatant anti-white racist statements from high places.

• “I had fantasies of unloading a  revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step, like I did the world a favor,” psychologist Dr. Aruna Khilanani speaking at Yale University School of Medicine.  She later agreed in an interview that white people are “psychopathic.”
• In 2020, Nike agreed to pull a shoe featuring the Betesy Ross flag over concerns that it was racist.
• Coca-Cola came under fire earlier this year for a diversity training program that, among other things, told employees to “try to be less white.”    
• Attorney General Merrick Garland has consistently stated his intention to target “white supremacists” for prosecution.  The odd thing is that he and other Democrats never quite get around to defining what a “white supremacist” is.  But if we accept the idea put forth by Ashleigh Shackelford and other CRT advocates that all white people are racists, is that really any different from saying all white people are white supremacists?  And if all white people are white supremacists, it follows logically that Attorney General Merrick Garland has threated all white Americans with prosecution.  Perhaps that is not his intent, but there is nothing in his public statements to make one think otherwise.
• Former TV host Megyn Kelly pulled her sons out of a private New York school after a letter allegedly circulated among the school’s faculty that read, “White school districts across the country [are] full of future killer cops.”
• The head of one private school in New York admitted that his school’s antiracist program is guilty of “demonizing white people for being born.”
• Showing ignorance of history and political and economic philosophy, the New York Times in its 1619 Project mistakenly claims that slavery, not the Protestant Reformation, is “the country’s very origin.”  
• The National Museum of African American History & Culture, a museum associated with the Smithsonian, posted a page complaining about “whiteness” defined as “white dominant culture.”  Although the page was widely criticized leading to its removal from the website, you can still see it here.  Among the deleterious aspects of whiteness listed by are such concepts as individualism, the nuclear family, the scientific method, and the Protestant work ethic. 
• Chanequa Walker-Barnes, who, ignoring the Biblical injunction that women are not to teach men, describes herself as a psychologist, professor and preacher, wrote an entry in the book A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal released earlier this year that begins “Dear God, Please help me to hate white people. Or ate least to want to hate them.  At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively.  I want to stop caring about their misguided racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist.”  Despite Walker-Barnes’ (note the hyphenated name) its blatant attacks on white Americans, this book is available for sale on Amazon and, unlike many books expressing ideas the establishment does not approve, likely will continue to be on sale without interruption.     
• According to an article in Revolver, a man by the name of Bishop Garrison has been named the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for Diversity and Inclusion.  Although Mr. Garrison frequently denounces extremism, he himself has made many statements that could be considered extremist

More examples can easily be found, and not all of them come from progressive sources either.  During the height of the riots in 2020, even people and organizations that would normally be considered free from CRT dogma couldn’t stop themselves from piling on white Americans and denouncing them as inveterate racists.   In his June 1, 2020 broadcast, Tucker Carlson made the important point that conservative, Republican leaders such as Mike Pence and Kay Cole James of the Heritage Foundation abandoned their supporters, denouncing them as racists.  It’s as if they had internalized the rhetoric of the CRT crowd and gladly joined in the beat down of the American people. 

At about the same time, I personally heard a sermon from a putatively Bible believing church that sounded much more like the Gospel According Black Lives Matter or the Gospel of Antifa than the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  The preacher seemed to revel in denouncing the congregation, on very flimsy evidence, as a bunch of racists in need of repentance.    

Now, none of the above is a systematic demolition of CRT.  Lord willing, that will come in future installments.  My point in writing this post is not formally to refute CRT, but hopefully to enlighten my fellow Christians to the very real danger that CRT poses.  It is not a passing fad.  It is not something pushed by the powerless.  This racist, antichristian system of thought has become the official philosophy of nearly every major institution in this country, from Fortune 500 corporations to your local school district. 

It is not something that safely can be ignored.

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