It's become abundantly clear that the people most loudly accusing America of being a bastion of "systemic racism" are either ignorant or self-serving cowards. In the case of television personality Jon Stewart, it's a bit of both. Case in point is a recent episode of Stewart's show, The Problem with Jon Stewart.
In the episode, entitled "The Problem with White People," Stewart joined two of his guests in eagerly condemning a third, Andrew Sullivan, as a racist. Sullivan's transgression was his mere willingness to question Stewart's and the other guests' assertions that America today is a hotbed of "systemic racism." Stewart displayed ignorance of America's complicated history with race, and cowardice by essentially lobbing the virtue-signaling, mob-appeasing accusation of "racist" at Sullivan. I don't want to spend too much more time discussing Stewart, other than to reiterate that his "problem" starts with ignorance and cowardice. But there is much to learn from Sullivan's must-read summary of the episode......
As for my meeting with BPS's superintendent, over the previous school
year, I had reached out via email on numerous occasions, regarding my
family's objections to the racist, CRT-informed material my
6th-grade daughter was bringing home from her elementary school. The
superintendent offered an in-person meeting to discuss the matter. I
accepted..............To Read More.....
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