The website of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) describes with the following
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit,
non-partisan research institute.
The Foundation’s mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.
Funded by thousands of individuals, foundations, and corporations, the Foundation does not accept government funds or contributions to influence the outcomes of its research.
The public is demanding a different direction for their government, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation is providing the ideas that enable policymakers to chart that new course.
No one would be paying much attention to this obviously partisan group except that they released the following graphic:
This cheat sheet meant to help educators spot signs of that pesky Critical Race Theory (Fact) is drawing a lot of interest because it’s one more demonstration of how pervasive racism is in the opposition to CRT, and how innocuous terms are now consider tools of evil to the anti-CRT crowd.
Let’s look at the some of the 21 points featured in the graphic in an attempt to determine the tyrannical nature of teaching history in full.
CRT - Also identified as Culturally Responsive Teaching. When CRT means detailing White Supremacy throughout history, that’s a problem. But when Culturally Responsive Teaching is couched in the former president’s 1776 Report, it’s not dangerous, it’s merely “grounded on a history of those principles that is “accurate, honest, unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.” So kids, always remember that White Supremacy is unifying, inspiring, and ennobling.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion - Who wants equity and inclusion? Let’s focus on inequity and disenfranchisement. They’re much more palatable.
Social justice or restorative justice - To organizations like the TPPF, this means that segregation, Jim Crow laws, and lynchings are tough breaks that must be overcome with personal perseverance. Who needs justice and restoration when you can just work harder to be more subservient?
Systemic/structural/institutional racism or oppression - Oppression in American History is apparently limited to those darn British when they ran the country and those uppity Yankees who wanted to limited slavery.
White privilege/fragility/supremacy/culture/prejudice - White prejudice only exists in the minds of Black slaves and lynching victims
Normative - Despite hundreds of years of legalized oppression, it’s really just an anomaly
Disparate outcomes or inequity - White and Black Americans have always had the same kinds of life experiences
Afrocentric/Eurocentric - Doesn’t exist. It’s Americentric, and it was created in a holy vacuum
Social constructs - Everything is random. Stuff, like racism, just happens
It will not surprise you to know that the TPPF’s Board of Directors is lily-white, and their staff is almost as bad, except for a few minorities, including Alice Marie Johnson, identified as a “Senior Fellow, Right on Crime” and Dr. Richard A. Johnson, III, who is listed as “Director, Booker T. Washington Initiative” The names “Right on Crime” and “Booker T. Washington Initiative tells you all you need to know about the Johnsons and their state of mind.
This list also tells you all you need to know about the warped perceptions of the anti-CRT crowd. These lists help to prove that the biggest obstacle facing CRT is that the truth hurts.