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Dr. Lane’s Thoughts XXXXVI
1) From what I have read, the Critical Race Theory (CRT) has many detractors. Not to repeat an issue that is the major core of this issue but it is not taught on an elementary or high school level and is primarily a part of the GRADUATE EDUCATION. Raising the theory as if it is an issue of indoctrination of elementary school is facetious at best.
More importantly, the major problem people have with it are twofold: (a) White people are afraid of being told that they had something to do with hurting other non-white people and this idea is making them sad. They do not want to be told that they did anything wrong or their ancestors did something wrong in the past and (b) there is a strong belief that if past wrongdoing is ignored it will go away and no one will remember it. This is patently untrue – the past is remembered and maybe it must be atoned for but, most importantly, it must be remembered and discussed. Change cannot happen by ignoring what is most hurtful in our shared America.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”–George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905.
White people who want to pretend that the United States of today does not have a horrid past of discrimination and hypocrisy are the main reason that we, as a people, can never heal. In medicine we understand that we must clean a wound before it can heal. The US needs to have its “wounds” cleaned and exposed to the light of peoples’ view so the country can heal.
People, let’s ‘clean the wounds’ of the past and let healing begin. A better America awaits us all.
But it isn’t just CRT; there are other issues going on very similar to the controversy about CRT : the never-ending issue of banned books. Never forget that the Nazis and the former USSR banned books. They banned books to avoid topics that would suggest dissent or books that reflected a history that neither country wanted to admit to. Other subjects that countries like to use as an excuse for banning books: menstruation, racial conflicts, sexuality of any kind (i.e. straight, queer, trans) and colonization of a superior power over a lesser power.
Banning books is the conservatives attempt to stymie debate about issues it does not want exposed or issues that deflect the ever-necessary picture that the US has ever been anything but a sanctuary and a blessed utopia for all people and blind to skin color. The true history of the US is an ever-evolving and improving country that has an ugly history of White American Men inflicting themselves on all other groups and subjecting all others to lives of disenfranchisement.
Perhaps the core of our problem is the inability to recognize the dark history of our roots that allows our country to exist as it does today. We are improving but we must start with admitting that there was another face of America not too long ago. We can’t show improvement if we do not admit where we came from.
2) The architecture of my life was defined by money, meaning its absence. I do not mean the sentiment of one young woman I knew at Syracuse University who complained to me “My dad gave me a used car to drive at school instead of the new BMW he got for himself. Why can’t I have the BMW? He hardly even drives it!” She spoke a sentiment that seems logical to her and her world without a thought as to how outlandish it was to my ears. Barbra Streisand described her own upbringing this way “we weren’t poor we just could never buy anything” – that describes my life growing up with a widow for a mother and 5 other siblings.
‘Poor’ is like water: it permeates every inch of your life and your decisions. Everything has a price tag keeping almost any experience out of reach. Nothing can just be bought; it all must be budgeted for,
My mother insisted that I not work while I was in high school because she knew that poor was temporary and education was forever. She was right but it hurt not to be able to share with my friends almost anything that they did. Even when I made it to chiropractic college when I was 40 I was surrounded by people in their 20s who just got money from their parents; their first job with a paycheck was being a doctor. This was not my life.
With that structure it would have been easy to use my degree for finding easy ways to make lots of money. Criminal behavior and near-criminal behavior attracts an audience of people who need you to help them reach their (criminal) goals. In case this interests you please be aware of two things (1) you will always be thought of as a criminal no matter how much you clean yourself up later and (2) your parents did not raise you that way and you will bring shame to them and/or their memory. if that is cool with you then please go ahead and continue.
Another thing you can do as a poor person with a professional degree is find another way to make yourself successful. This may be the only way to make an income as insurers squeeze medical professionals and legal professionals from making any money when they see clients or patients.
3) To understand Trump and his followers you should look to the
work of Eric Hoffer and his summation about “True Believers”.
Eric Hoffer was a former migrant farm worker
who achieved praise and fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a writer and
philosopher.
Hoffer’s
first of many books, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass
Movements,” was published in 1951, while he was a longshoreman in San
Francisco. He continued to labor on the docks and continued to write for
another 13 years, before becoming an adjunct professor at UC-Berkeley, but
“True Believer” remains his most cogent work.
It is truly an amazing work, especially in light of who wrote it – a man with almost no formal education. The book is almost 50% references which indicates that he wrote it with a great deal of insight from other authors. Hoffer
applied the term “mass movements” to “revolutionary parties, nationalistic
movements, and religious movements” and added, “A movement is pioneered by men
of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of actions.”
“Hoffer
argues that fanatical and extremist cultural movements, whether religious,
social, or national, arise when large numbers of frustrated people, believing
their own individual lives to be worthless or spoiled, join a movement
demanding radical change. But the real attraction for this population is an
escape from the self, not a realization of individual hopes.” Thus, a mass
movement attracts followers “not because it can satisfy the desire for
self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for
self-renunciation.”
The
phenomenon, Hoffer importantly concluded, is not confined to any one religious
or ideological belief, noting that in post-World War I Germany, communists and
Nazis competed for allegiance among the same frustrated, marginalized and angry
slices of the population.
Although
published seven decades ago, Hoffer’s observations strike home today in a
nation that might more accurately be called the Disunited States of America.
True believers abound and they see others with differing views as an evil
scourge that must be eradicated.
The most
obvious example occurred 13 months ago, when hundreds of Donald Trump
followers, believing — without a shred of evidence — that his re-election bid
was stolen, invaded the Capitol to prevent Joe Biden’s election as president
from being confirmed.
Hoffer
warned us about mindless true believers undermining civic stability and
democracy itself.
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