Candidates of color had a great election night on Tuesday, making history as voters across the country elected minorities to office in both local and statewide races, despite a progressive narrative claiming the U.S. is a systemically racist nation.
After a jury in April convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering Floyd in Minneapolis, for example, President Joe Biden said the verdict allowed the world to see "The systemic racism that is a stain on our nation's soul." Days later, progressives attacked Sen. Tim Scott online for saying America "Is not a racist country," calling him an "Uncle Tom." The same battle lines are present in the ongoing debate over critical race theory, which promotes two central ideas: that racism is entrenched in all systems of American society and that all disparities between the races indicate racial discrimination.
Overall, 72% of Virginia voters said CRT was an "Important" factor in their vote.
Republican Glenn Youngkin, who won the Virginia gubernatorial race, promised to ban CRT, while his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, argued parents shouldn't have a say in whether schools teach CRT to their kids.
"It's sort of the opposite of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s argument that what he cared about was the content of your character, not the color of your skin." It's unclear how proponents of CRT and the existence of white privilege will respond following Tuesday night's historic victories for minority candidates - victories that objectively undermine the argument that the U.S. is systemically racist.
"America is the only country - we are the only country on the globe with dream attached to our name," said Adams, the mayor-elect of New York City.
"There's no German dream. There's no Polish dream. There's no French dream. But damn it, there's an American dream."
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
Minority candidates make history, undermining narrative of 'systemic racism'
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