On Critical Race Theory - I stand with President Obama
In 2008, as a candidate for the office of President, Senator Barack Obama became embroiled in a controversy. The pastor at the church he and his family attended, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, offered a sermon with strong, negative views about the United States of America. The sermon expressed points that align directly with what is called "Critical Race Theory" today. Opponents of then Senator Obama, both his political opponents and opponents in the media, suggested that because Senator Obama and his family attended that Church for a long while the Senator must share the views expressed by Reverend Wright. Obama gave a speech in response. In that speech he started out expressing hope for America. That hope was based on his "unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people. But it also comes from my own American story." He then recounted that story - "son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas" raised...