Wednesday, June 09, 2021
To the Editor:
The main point in Dave Parker s letter in last week’s paper is that racism has somehow vanished from the national scene, and that attempts to talk about the history of race and racism in America from various points of view is fatally flawed. In his telling and his view is widely held on the political right racism just does not exist, and his proof is the twin elections of our first Black President, Barack Obama. He specifically targets the 1619 Project and critical race theory as gross distortions or completely false depictions of reality.
Since they describe historical events relating to race, they also pose some kind of unexplained and nefarious threat to students, and serve the purpose, for no good reason, of stirring up groups of people against other groups. The way this works is also unexplained.