Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory is Burning Down The House

by Ben Carson (Foreword by)

Overview

In schools and workplaces across the United States, Americans are being indoctrinated with a divisive, anti-American ideology: Critical Race Theory (CRT). Based in cultural Marxism, CRT bullies and demonizes whites while infantilizing and denying agency to blacks, creating a deep racial rift. As Abraham Lincoln famously observed, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." CRT aims to divide the American nation against itself and burn down the house.

In Black Eye for America: How Critical Race Theory Is Burning Down the House, Carol Swain and Christopher Schorr expose the true nature of Critical Race Theory, and they offer concrete solutions for taking back the country's stolen institutions. They describe CRT in theory and practice, accounting for its origins and weaponization within American schools and workplaces; explain how this ideology threatens traditional American values and legal doctrines, including civil rights; and equip everyday Americans with strategies to help them resist and defeat CRT's pernicious influence.

Carol Swain (PhD) is an award-winning political scientist and former tenured professor at Princeton and Vanderbilt Universities. She is the author or editor of 10 books, including Be the People: A Call to Reclaim America's Faith and Promise and The New White Nationalism in America: Its Challenge to Integration.

Christopher Schorr holds a PhD in American Government from Georgetown University. His dissertation ("White Nationalism and its Challenge to the American Right") considers factors that risk mainstreaming white nationalist politics in the United States, including Critical Race Theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781737419815
Publisher:	Be the People Books
Publication date:	08/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	781 KB

About the Author

Born into abject poverty in rural southwest Virginia, Dr. Carol Swain, a high school dropout,went on to earn five degrees. Holding a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hilland an M.S.L. from Yale, she also earned early tenure at Princeton and full professorship atVanderbilt where she was professor of political science and a professor of law. Today she is asought-after cable news contributor and guest expert, a best-selling author, and a prominentnational speaker.In addition to having three Presidential appointments, Carol is a former Distinguished SeniorFellow for Constitutional Studies with the Texas Public Policy Foundation who has also servedon the Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, the NationalEndowment for the Humanities, and the 1776 Commission.An award-winning political scientist, cited three times by the U.S. Supreme Court, she hasauthored or edited 13 published books including the bestseller, Black Eye for America: HowCritical Race Theory is Burning Down the House, the timely The Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme Court's Decision to Remove Race From College Admissions Will Doom Diversity Programs, and Countercultural Living: What Jesus Has to Say About Life, Marriage, Race, Gender, and Materialism.Ms. Swain is an expert on critical race theory, American politics, and race relations withtelevision appearances that include BBC Radio and TV, CSPAN, ABC's Headline News, CNN,Fox News, Newsmax and more.In addition, she has published opinion pieces in the New York Times, the Washington Post, theWall Street Journal, the Epoch Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today.She is the founder and CEO of Carol Swain Enterprises, REAL Unity Training Solutions, YourLife Story for Descendants, and her non-profit, Be The People.Carol is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Dr. Benjamin Carson xv

Acknowledgments xvii

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

Why We Came Together to Write this Book 1

Christopher J. Schorr's Perspective 4

Where We Stand 5

The Path Forward 6

CHAPTER 2: WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY? 9

The Current Political Landscape 15

CRT in Practice 17

Study Questions 19

CHAPTER 3: WHERE DOES CRITICAL RACE THEORY COME FROM? 21

Cultural Marxism 21

Critical Theory22

Postmodernism 23

Critical Legal and Race Theories 25

Study Questions 27

CHAPTER 4: CRITICAL RACE THEORY

AND TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES 29

Un-American Values29

Classical Liberalism30

Allegations of White Supremacy 31

Study Questions 35

CHAPTER 5: CRITICAL RACE THEORY

AND AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN INHERITANCE 37

Christianity in the "American Creed" 37

The Church(es) of Woke40

Study Questions 46

CHAPTER 6: CRITICAL RACE THEORY, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION,

AND CIVIL RIGHTS LAW 47

CRT vs. Civil Rights47

CRT vs the Constitution and Civil Rights Law 48

Disingenuous Defenses49

Study Questions 54

CHAPTER 7: STRATEGIES FOR RESISTING

CRITICAL RACE THEORY'S INFLUENCE55

Surveying the Battlefield55

Joining the Battle: "Voice" 60

Joining the Battle: "Exit"62

Joining the Battle: "Guerilla Warfare" 63

Study Questions 67

CHAPTER 8: FIGHTING BACK 69

Ten Proposals for Resisting CRT 70

Applying the Proposals70

Stand Your Ground77

Study Questions 79

Glossary 81

Notes 91

Appendix A: Resources 131

Appendix B: Model School Board Language to Prohibit Critical Race Theory 136

Index 149

About the Authors 155