The Critical Race practitioners were out in force following the disjointed testimony of Rachel Jeantel at the trial of George Zimmerman for the murder of her friend Trayvon Martin.
She is the one who was talking to St. Trayvon on the phone when he spotted George Zimmerman following him.
In an article called Why Black People Understand Rachel Jeantel, Christina Coleman broke it down: “Any attorney, jury member, judge or white person in that courtroom is not going to understand Rachel Jeantel. And I don’t expect them to…In fact, I certainly understand why white people wouldn’t like Rachel.”310
This could be any one of dozens of articles from MSNBC to NPR. Even Geraldo at Fox.
Coleman talks about White Privilege and how it makes people blind to the differences between Jeantel and us. That is not to say black people are different. No, any Critical Race Theorist will tell you black people are normal. White people are different.
After all, who said White People are the norm? White Supremacists, that’s who.
Twitter was alive with thousands of people talking about how more white people should learn Critical Race Theory to understand Jeantel. And their own racism.
Derrick Bell may have invented Critical Race Theory. But Glenn Singleton is the Pied Piper spreading it through schools. What we call achievement, he calls White Privilege.
What we call dim-witted and angry —as we saw on the witness stand from Jeantel —Singleton would say is nothing more than the different learning and communication style of black people: “Non-verbal. Personal. Emotional. Process Oriented.”
This is opposed to “White Talk: Verbal. Impersonal. Intellectual. Task-oriented.”
Glenn Singleton is not just an obscure academic theoretician casting pearls before undergrad sociology students. He trains teachers at hundreds of school districts around the country in how to bring Critical Race Theory into the classroom so they can “overcome the deeply embedded institutional racism” that is the only reason for the achievement gap between black and white students.
Critical Race Theory says three things: White racism is permanent, everywhere and explains everything.
Singleton is its busiest practitioner in schools around the country. And if he is not there in person, his training and approach are there in spirit at the largest school districts and the largest states in the country.
Critical Race explains it all: More blacks in prison? Racist cops. Black unemployment? Racist employers. Black drug use? Racist cops ignore white drug users. Black health, black crime, black poverty? Racism. Racism. Racism.
Singleton likes to give the example of how black students only seem to misbehave in class because that is what they learned in black churches. One of his clients, California State Supt. of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, was so proud of this discovery he just had to tell the world:
“Black children learn at church that it’s good to clap, speak loudly and be a bit raucous. But doing the same thing at school, where 72% of teachers are white and may be unfamiliar with such customs, will get them in trouble.”
That did not turn out well.
O’Connell was immediately lashed for using stereotypes to make ridiculous generalizations. He apologized for repeating what Singleton is praised for saying. Call it Black Privilege.
In Atlanta, Nkosi Thandiwe shot three white people in 2013, killing one, paralyzing the other, because he said he learned in school to be angry about slavery.
He is not alone. If you read the regular reports on the epidemic of black mob violence and wonder why so many young black people are so angry, even to the point of violence, now you know where they learned it.