Critical Race Theory Is an Attack on America

On August 28th, 1963, 250,000 Americans travelled to our nation’s capital to hear from some of the foremost civil rights leaders from all corners of these United States. Among other speakers, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history, entitled “I Have a Dream.” In it, King shared his vision that, “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 

King’s March on Washington brought about the biggest and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation in the history of the United States, and his movement ushered in nothing short of a revolution in the way that most Americans thought about race. King was successful in this endeavor not just because he was well-connected, eloquent, and brilliant, though that certainly did help, he succeeded because he was right. King’s framework for race relations, one in which the importance of arbitrary racial divisions could be cast aside, and individuals would succeed or fail on their own merits, was exactly the solution to the racial divisions America was facing. King was right then, and he is right now. 

When I was serving in the U.S. Army as a Frontline Tank Commander, King’s famous quote was real. I could feel it. The color of my skin didn’t matter when other men and women placed their faith in me to keep them alive; my heart did. When I was elected as the first black Republican lawmaker in the state of Arizona, my race didn’t matter to my colleagues; my mind did. Through an embrace of King’s mantra, America has been able to remain the single most diverse and powerful nation in the world. That accomplishment is one that my friends on the left are increasingly taking for granted through their recent embrace of a neo-Marxist, pedagogical framework, known colloquially as Critical Race Theory. 

Critical Race Theory, despite what some of its defenders on the left would lead you to believe, is not one thing. It is not a bill in Congress to be voted on, or an organization whose events you can attend; it’s a worldview. It’s a worldview that pits Americans against each other by telling them that they exist inside of a rigid power structure, sorted by race, with black Americans like me at the bottom. Put another way, it is entirely antithetical to the very idea of America, and the exact opposite of what Martin Luther King Jr. believed in. Quite literally, the Democratic Party’s embrace of this toxic ideology poses an existential threat to the continued existence of the American experiment. 

Perhaps the most alarming development in this area is the embrace of Critical Race Theory by the Biden administration’s national security leaders, as well as some of the military’s top generals. Implementing this racist ideology in our armed forces would destroy morale and pit our service members against one another instead of against our enemies.

That’s why I’m running for U.S. Congress. I risked life and limb for nearly 22 years in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan to ensure that we could wake up every morning in the freest, safest, most just country in all of human history. There’s not a chance in hell I’m letting socialist progressives take that from any of us. Not without a fight. Part of that fight is holding those accountable who refuse to take a stand against the racist fringe in the Democratic Party. Chief among these do-nothing career politicians is Tom O’Halleran, the Congressman for Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. 

Despite being in his third and final term, Tom O’Halleran has done nothing and stands for nothing. Despite initially being elected in Arizona as a Republican, O’Halleran receives a $175,000 salary as a Democrat, and he’s all too happy to sit back and let the radical socialists who run his party push ideas like critical race theory and policies like the Green New deal that would actively harm our nation. 

O’Halleran, like too many in American politics today, is content with following the political winds in pursuit of prestige and status. Not me, and not any of the Arizonans I’ve had the privilege of speaking with on the campaign trail. In 2022, and 2024, neither O’Halleran nor I are on the ballot. Our very way of life as we know it is. I know how I’m voting, and I hope you’ll join me.

 

Orwell and the Woke

Epigraph: “Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm”

What were we to make of multimillionaire Barack Obama’s 60th birthday bash at his Martha’s Vineyard estate, and the throng of the woke wealthy and their masked helot attendants?

Was socialist Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suffering for the people when she wore a designer dress to the more than $30,000-a-ticket Met gala? Her entourage needs were certainly well-attended to by masked Morlock servants.

Did the leftist celebrities at the recent Emmy awards gather to discuss opening Malibu beaches to the homeless when the (unmasked) stars virtue-signaled their wokeness?

For answers about these hypocritical wokists, always turn first to George Orwell. In his brief allegorical novella, “Animal Farm,” an array of animal characters – led by the thinking pigs of the farm – staged a revolution, driving out their human overseers.

The anti-human animal comrades started out sounding like zealous Russian Bolsheviks (“four legs good, two legs bad”). But soon they ended up conned by a murderous cult of pigs under a Joseph Stalin-like leader. And so, the revolution became what it once had opposed (“four legs good, two legs better”).

Our own woke, year-zero revolution is now in its second year. Yet last year’s four-legged revolutionaries are already strutting on two legs. They are not just hobnobbing with the “white supremacists” and “capitalists,” but outdoing them in their revolutionary zeal for the rarified privileges of the material good life.

The Marxist co-founder of BLM, Patrisse Cullors, is now on her fourth woke home. She has moved on from the barricades to the security fences of her Topanga Canyon digs in a mostly all-white, all-rich rural paradise – the rewards for revolutionary service.

Professor Ibram X. Kendi has evolved from the edgy revolutionary work of flying all over the country, hawking his Orwellian message of “All racism bad! But some racism good!” Now he has mastered the art of zooming the wannabe woke for his $20,000 an hour avant-garde hectoring.

What of Colin Kaepernick, the mediocre second-string quarterback turned sudden firebrand? He refused to stand for the national anthem and spread his “take a knee” kitsch throughout professional sports.

Kaepernick became a boutique revolutionary multimillionaire. For $12 million a year, he pitches Nike sneakers, often made in Chinese forced-labor camps.

Woke NBA star LeBron James, from his $23 million Brentwood mansion, blasts America for its endless unfairness – in service to his totalitarian Chinese paymasters who will ensure his good life with an eventual lifetime $1 billion payout for hawking their goods.

Our other elite wokists navigating around the revolution are even more cynical. The corporate and Wall Street capitalists feel that a little virtue signaling, showy diversity coordinators, and woke advertising will more or less buy off the latest version of Al-Sharpton-like shake-down artists.

Then there are the trimmers and enablers. These are the wealthy, rich, and the professional classes. They feel – in abstract – absolutely terrible about inequality, but hardly enough in the concrete to mix with the unwashed.

For them, wokism is like party membership in the late ethically bankrupt Soviet Union. It is necessary for peace of mind and good income, but otherwise not an obstacle for the continuance of the privileged, comfortable life.

The more TV news hosts rant about “systemic” this and “supremacy” that, and the more college presidents write stern penance memos to their faculty about “that’s not who we are,” the more they feel not just good about themselves, but relieved of any real obligation to live and socialize with the Other.

As for the self-declared non-white Other, wokism is also a top-down revolution of celebrities, intellectuals, actors, activists, academics, grifters, lawyers, and the upper-middle class and rich. And they are not calling for a Marshall Plan to bring classical education to the inner city. They themselves have little desire to move in or spread their wealth. They rarely mentor others on their shrewd capitalist expertise that made themselves rich.

They are far more cynical than that. The regrettable violence of the street, the 120 days of 2020 looting, death and arson, are the levers of the woke professionals. They fight with the various tribes of the same class and mindset over the slices of the same coveted elite pies. But they bring to the scrap the unspoken cudgel that without greater non-white de facto quotas in comic books, TV commercials, Ivy League faculties and students, symphonies, and sit-coms, then “systemic racism” could once again ignite downtown Portland or Seattle or Baltimore.

Orwell would say of the woke Obamas, Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Bernie Sanders, LeBron James, or Ibram Kendi – and their supposedly unwoke, but similarly rich and privileged enemies – “It was impossible to say which was which.”

 

Photographer Who Took Photos of Border Patrol’s Horse Unit Takes a Sledgehammer to ‘Whipping’ Lie

 

The photographer who took pictures of Border Patrol agents on horseback attempting to prevent Haitians from illegally crossing into the United States is speaking out after Democrats and the mainstream media falsely accused the agents of using whips on the Haitians by using his photos.

Speaking with KTSM, Paul Ratje said he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone.

“I’ve never seen them whip anyone. He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture,” Ratje said.

Ratje’s eyewitness account dismantles the prevailing narrative conjured up by Democrats and the mainstream media, who have accused the agents of using equipment they are not issued and of being racist.

The agents in question are under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security and the entire unit has been ordered to stop operations in the Del Rio Sector.

A source within Border Patrol previously explained to Townhall what people got wrong about the incident:”Agents use their reins for a lot of reasons. Primarily it’s used to steer the horse, but agents will also spin them sometimes to deter people from getting too close to the horse. If they get too close, the horse can step on them, breaking bones or causing other injuries. Agents also need to maintain control of their reins so they don’t lose control of the horse, which can cause injuries to immigrants, the agents, and the horses.  
“We are not aware of anyone being struck with the reins.”

During his press conference on Friday, President Joe Biden said the agents involved in the incident “will pay” for something we have long known did not happen.

Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border:

“To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay.” pic.twitter.com/Jx79KoYTy9— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2021

With the horse unit now not doing patrols at the moment, Jon Anfinsen, president of the Border Patrol’s Local 2366 in Del Rio, said the already open border is now less secure:

“The horse patrol unit is an effective means of apprehending immigrants who illegally cross our borders every day, along with searching for those who are sick or injured and stranded in the brush. 

“Suspending them all for even a brief amount of time takes away one of the few remaining units that have been in the field making arrests and rescues on a regular basis. When the rest of our agents are indoors processing, unable to make arrests and rescues of their own, we should be using all the resources we have to patrol the border.”

In response to Biden’s threat, Anfinsen said, “How can President Biden continue with this false narrative when the photographer who took the photos of the horse patrol unit has already said nobody was whipped? What happened to due process?”

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Grassley leads Democratic challenger Abby Finkenauer by 18-percentage points, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.

Sen. Chuck Grassley made a political announcement early Friday morning on Twitter, informing his followers that he will be running for an eighth term. 

The 88-year-old Republican, who has been in the Senate since 1981, emphasized his exercise regimen and early wake-up time in the tweet, which shared a brief clip of him running.

“It’s 4 a.m. in Iowa so I’m running. I do that 6 days a week. Before I start the day I want you to know what Barbara and I have decided,” he said. “I’m running for re-election—a lot more to do, for Iowa. We ask and will work for your support. Will you join us? #GrassleyRuns #GrassleyWorks”

It’s 4 a.m. in Iowa so I’m running. I do that 6 days a week. Before I start the day I want you to know what Barbara and I have decided.

I’m running for re-election—a lot more to do, for Iowa. We ask and will work for your support. Will you join us? #GrassleyRuns #GrassleyWorks pic.twitter.com/cwv8yu9wkx— Grassley Works (@GrassleyWorks) September 24, 2021

pic.twitter.com/2r8xKfOgrr— Grassley Works (@GrassleyWorks) September 24, 2021

The announcement means Republicans will likely keep control of his seat in the midterm elections, helping the GOP in its effort to claim a majority in the upper chamber. 

Grassley had been silent for months about whether he would attempt to extend his time in the Senate, the Des Moines Register reported. He told the newspaper that his future plans were one of the topics on his mind during his recent morning exercises.

Grassley has planned a number of events around Iowa for Friday to coincide with his announcement, and will join Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds in Des Moines on Saturday at her Harvest Festival fundraising event, the Register reported. (Fox News)

Grassley leads Democratic challenger Abby Finkenauer by 18-percentage points, according to a recent Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll.

 

Patel and Bannon are expected to appear at depositions on October 14, while Meadows and Scavino are expected to on October 15.

 

Days after word got out that the January 6 select committee was going to issue subpoenas, those subpoenas have indeed come. They’ve come for some pretty key figures, too. 

Subpoenas were issued to:
– Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows
– Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Daniel Scavino
– Former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel
– Former Trump advisor Stephen Bannon— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) September 23, 2021

Those figures, according to Luke Broadwater for the New York Times, include Mark Meadows, chief of staff at the time; Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff for communications and the White House director of social media at the time; Steve Bannon; and Kash Patel, chief of staff to then Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.

As Broadwater also wrote:

In letters transmitting the subpoenas, the committee said it was seeking information about Mr. Trump’s actions in the run-up to and during the riot.

Mr. Bannon was present at a meeting at the Willard Hotel the day before the violence, when plans were discussed to try to overturn the results of the election the next day, the committee stated. He was quoted as saying, “All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.”

Mr. Meadows was involved in the planning of efforts to subvert the results of the election, the committee asserted.

Mr. Scavino was in contact with Mr. Trump and others who planned the rallies that preceded the violence of Jan. 6, and Mr. Patel was reportedly in constant contact with Mr. Meadows on the day of the assault, the committee said.

Here are the letters to Meadows, Bannon, Scavino and Patel:https://t.co/7sG4c43hzChttps://t.co/5HxWEUX33Ehttps://t.co/7qPAHdmxuhhttps://t.co/oQ5zPZGbJE— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 23, 2021

The letters for each of the men are available online, via the January 6 committee website. A press release also mentions Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the chairman of the select committee:

“The Committee is investigating the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power, to identify and evaluate lessons learned and to recommend corrective laws, policies, procedures rules, or regulations,” wrote Chairman Thompson, underscoring the Select Committee’s authority established by House Resolution 503.

Patel and Bannon are expected to appear at depositions on October 14, while Meadows and Scavino are expected to on October 15.