Jonathan Zimmerman writes: “Let’s suppose you were a Democrat who secretly wanted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to become our next president. What would you do?”
Let’s be clear: Asian Americans have suffered awful racist violence, from their arrival on these shores to the spate of attacks at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was frequently blamed on them. And the racist crimes against African Americans are incalculable and undeniable: slavery, segregation, lynching, redlining and so much more.
But that’s saying one thing, and saying America is an inherently and indelibly racist country is another. The latter claim is associated with critical race theory, which took root in law schools after the civil rights era.
That’s a debatable assertion, to say the least, and we should certainly debate it. And that’s why I despise efforts by DeSantis and others to bar critical race theory from our schools. Most Americans have no idea what critical race theory is, of course. But once it gets banned, it’s easy to imagine how many schools will drop any study of racism lest they run afoul of the law.
We would do better to take a page from Barrington Martin II, a former Democratic congressional candidate in Georgia. “Can’t people be bad people motivated by their lack of maturity, self-awareness, and inability to discern?”, who is African American. “Does every incident involving police and black men have to revert to being an issue in race?”
The next election will hinge largely on the way that Democrats answer that question. And if they want to lose to a demagogue like DeSantis, they’ll say yes.
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