Bill Ayers, a Familiar Face in the Birth of Critical Race Theory

American Thinker.com ^ | October 15, 2021 | Jack Cashill

[Kaslin]

After Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on unruly parents protesting Critical Race Theory (CRT) at school board meetings, it came to light that Garland had a dog in the fight.

That dog is son-in-law Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama Education, a leading distributor of CRT materials. Among the materials Panorama has recommended for educators is an essay by terrorist emeritus and Obama pal Bill Ayers.

Titled "I Shall Create! Teaching Toward Freedom," Ayers's essay is the first in a 2019 collection by left-wing activist Lisa Delpit. If nothing else, Ayers has been consistent. He has been pumping out frenetic anti-white cant long before it was cool, let alone mandatory.

Writes Ayers in this recent essay, "We must face reality and courageously confront history, tell the truth, and then destroy the entire edifice of white supremacy: metaphorically speaking it means burning down the plantation." The problem now is that Ayers is no longer an outlier. The same FBI that hounded him and his fellow bombers is now hounding parents who protest his subversive nonsense.

What Ayers thinks would matter less were it not for his outsized influence on the educational philosophy of former president Barack Obama. Were Obama merely a former president, his thinking would not matter much, either. But Obama may be more than that. Even Tucker Carlson has openly speculated that Obama is the guy running the show at the White House. What seems clear is that Joe Biden is not.

Equally clear is the mind meld between Ayers and Obama on educational issues. In Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father, the thoughts on educational reform are channeled through the soulful voices of two older African-Americans.

[livius]

The FBI didn’t “hound” Ayers and his fellow bombers…in those days, the FBI was actually doing its job, looking for people who were committing horrible crimes and genuine terrorist acts. The courts were the ones who fell down on their job in those days, since Ayers and his ilk rarely received punishment commensurate with their crimes.

They went on to breeze out of jail and into comfy academic careers, where they could sit around and draw blueprints for the destruction of America and instruct others in it. No more need for handling those dangerous bombs. The university was much more effective.

[MtnClimber]

MOSTLY PEACEFUL

[gundog]

"The public schools' idea of integration is racist. They put Negro children into school and demand that they give up their Negro culture. Negro children are forced to speak, behave, and react according to middle-class standards."

Conflating race and class. Just like Old Joe and his “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” remark. I guess it can’t be helped if you’re a dedicated Marxist using race as a lever against capitalism.

[silent majority rising]

Stop Mao’s Cultural Revolution before it takes over. This is America.