If you are familiar with mitochondrial DNA, it seems to indicate that all humans descend from a female (and likely a similar male) from Africa likely dark skinned.
Originally Posted by reddog1951
That is my understanding and I accept it as settled science. What is the alternative, that God created each individual race? I believe we came to have people of different pigmentation through an evolutionary process.
However, how that would change my mind as to what is going on with BLM, CRT, White Fragility and what is stated in that letter, does not compute.
I have also acknowledged slavery and discrimination. The fact that we "use to" have laws that allowed for discrimination. Today we do not. Did these laws completely do away with all discrimination, they did not. Is there "systemic racism in this country, there is not. Is America a racist country, it is not. Are some Americans racist, they are. Have we passed laws trying to correct this problem we once had, we have.
But something is happening now that the majority of Americans either don't know about or are having trouble coming to terms with. Some Americans are afraid to speak out because they see others who are speaking up, losing their jobs, being ostracized and it makes them fearful but I have to believe we are going to turn this corner by speaking out and will put an end to this new racism being taught in schools to boardrooms.
All these people on the left denying that CRT is being taught in school while at they same time saying the teachers will defend in court the right of a teacher to teach what they say isn't be taught, is laughable if it wasn't so serious.
Here is a story that is circulating today that is opening the eyes of many Americans, well, those that will see and hear the story which means if you watch CNN and MSNBC and read the NYT's and WAPO, you probably won't hear this story but it goes to the heart of the lies the Progressive left are telling and the now out in the open way in which they are trying to hide the indoctrination of young school children. If this doesn't make you sit up and take notice, nothing will.
https://justthenews.com/nation/state...stions-parents
Minnesota student says teacher told her to hide 'equity survey' questions from parents
"One question asked us what gender we identify with," revealed a student who was in fourth grade at the time. "I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates."
A student in the Sartell-St. Stephen School District just north of St. Cloud, Minn. is speaking out after the school required grade-school children take an "equity" survey.
Some students didn't understand some of the survey questions, but were told by a teacher they couldn't repeat the survey questions to their parents, according to a video uploaded by Alphanews.
The survey asked questions that some students didn't understand. Even after hearing an explanation from their teacher, some still couldn't comprehend the survey questions.
But a teacher told the students they couldn't ask their parents for help, according to Haylee Yasgar, a fourth-grader at the time.
"My teacher said that I could not skip any questions even when I didn't understand them," Yasgar said during a school board meeting last week. "One question asked us what gender we identify with. I was very confused along with a lot of other classmates."
She said students were told they could not "repeat any of the questions to our parents."
The school district hadn't responded to a request for comment by publication time. It’s unclear what value a survey holds if respondents don't understand the questions.
"Being asked to hide this from my mom made me very uncomfortable, like I was doing something wrong," she told the school board.
The equity survey is part of an intensifying clash over how school systems nationwide should teach issues related not only to sexuality but race as well in the state where George Floyd died in police custody last year.
Despite being more than 40 years old, Critical Race Theory has emerged as a flashpoint over the last year, often pitting teachers and school administrators against parents.
CRT holds that "the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans," according to Britannica.
CRT scholars allege many societal problems are rooted in the country's white majority using laws and other power to suppress the non-white population, whether consciously or subconsciously.
CRT opponents claim its conclusions rely on anecdotes and storytelling, rather than a comprehensive examination of evidence, and fail to take into account strides that the nation has made toward racial equality.
Imagine that for just a moment. A teacher telling 10 year olds, not to talk to their parents about the assignment they have. That should send a chill up one's spine. Trying to separate children from the parents is a tenet in Marxist education efforts. Turn the children against their parents so that the Marxist can shape their minds instead instead of their parents.
And as a side note, the approval ratings of the Biden administration, are dropping like a rock.
https://www.masslive.com/politics/20...ok-office.html
President Joe Biden’s approval rating dips to 50%, lowest since he took office
President Joe Biden’s approval rating has dipped six percentage points to 50%, his lowest mark since taking office in January, according to the latest Gallup poll.
Biden’s reduced rating comes as the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant spreads and increases cases among unvaccinated Americans, and amid continued polarization, according to Gallup. For the first time, support for Biden among independents dipped below a majority to 48%, and Democratic support at 90% marks a new low as well. Biden’s overall performance during his term’s first second quarter — an average of 53% —