Stephan:   This is what happens when you have people who put their ideological view ahead of facts. The Critical Race Theory argument is particularly relevant to this point. First of all no elementary or high school in the country teaches a course in critical race theory It comes into play at universities, particularly at the graduate level. So the whole argument is really about fear; the fear of a segment of Whites that their comfortable assumptions about race, and White supremacy are not, in fact, historically accurate. Race is, and always has been, baked into the American culture. That's a fact. In equity is written into the Constitution. George Mason would not sign the Constitution, even though he was one of the major authors of the document. He got up at the constitutional convention, and said he wouldn't sign it because it did not end the slave trade. He predicted the Civil War almost to the year.  But he was also a slave owner. In fact if you look at just the major figures, Washington, Madison, Jefferson, and Mason, they were all, except Adams, and Franklin, slave owners, as were many other less well known men. Of the 55 who signed the  Constitution 25 were slave owners. Blacks individually were defined as 3/5s of a White. It is hard to get more baked in than that. All of this is happening because we are becoming a majority minority nation, in fact in some places we already are. That is not going to change. The only question is, are we going to deal with this reality through democracy or autocracy? That is something each of us has to answer.