Rhode Island State Rep. Patricia Morgan set Twitter ablaze Tuesday when she blasted out a bizarre post claiming she’d lost a Black friend due to a recent conservative obsession: critical race theory.
In the tweet, the Republican lawmaker complained that her friend had become “hostile and unpleasant” towards her—simply because she’s a white woman.
“Is that what teachers and our political leaders really want for our society? Divide us because of our skin color? #CRT,” Morgan wrote.
I had a black friend. I liked her and I think she liked me, too. But now she is hostile and unpleasant. I am sure I didn't do anything to her, except be white. Is that what teachers and our political leaders really want for our society? Divide us because of our skin color? #CRT
— Patricia Morgan (@repmorgan) December 28, 2021
Morgan’s post was immediately flooded with responses, as thousands called out her tone deaf statement.
“Oof….the fact that you think this tweet is ok shows just how much you have to learn. It might be she was just too exhausted to be your teacher,” one Twitter user posted. “It’s not CRT…it’s you. Had you had access to CRT, maybe you wouldn’t have alienated your friend.”
“CRT is about learning actual history and why people have an advantage for having white skin,” another wrote. “None of my friends are asking me to hate myself. That’s not the issue. They want me to be aware/learn & do what I can to help.”
In an interview with The Daily Beast, Morgan refused to name the pal, but said they used to be close until the friend stopped responding to her phone calls and messages.
“I’m sad that she doesn’t feel like she’s my friend anymore,” Morgan said. “I know that she has become a real proponent of racial identity politics. And I’m pretty sure that’s the reason behind it. I’m sad that our country is going down that road. I think it’s bad for our country.”
In March, Morgan co-sponsored a bill in Rhode Island that would have banned the teaching of more than justcritical race theory in public schools. The bill, RI H6070, failed to pass in June but was meant to prohibit the “teaching of divisive concepts” as well as mandate that “any contract, grant or training entered into by state or municipality include provisions prohibiting divisive concepts and prohibit making individual feel distress on account of their race or sex.”
Morgan believes that her support for the bill and banning critical race theory is what cost her the friendship. Despite the odd wording of her tweet, she claimed to have more than one Black friend.
“We fought these battles already against discrimination and against segregation [for] Martin Luther King’s goals for us to judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin,” Morgan told The Daily Beast. “[Critical race theory] shuts down conversations about other reasons for disparities and other ways that we could work to change those disparities.”
Morgan alleged—while offering little evidence—that critical race theory is already being taught to students in public schools in her area, a claim conservatives have repeatedly made.
“Teachers have reported it to me. I’ve seen it in the textbooks and some of the reading material that is being used,” she said, without providing the names of the textbooks or their publishers.
“[Critical race theory] is where you really want to center race in every conversation and every subject and every textbook,” Morgan asserted. “Getting around and having a conversation about race doesn’t help a child learn how to make change.”
Critical race theory is actually an advanced academic framework—developed in law schools in the 1980s—for examining racism in American institutions.
But without evidence, Morgan blamed critical race theory on a host of education issues, from not preparing kids for life after high school to poor scores on statewide tests. She pointed to an unnamed group of kids who could not make change or take orders while working the cash register at a part time job—and faulted critical race theory.
The former teacher also blasted educators for sharing the stories of less high profile Black leaders in lessons, insisting, “There’s only so much time in the day to teach history.”
She referenced Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe—the white woman who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin—as “born leaders” who students should learn about.
“And who was the person who created the Underground Railroad?” she asked at one point, referring to Harriet Tubman, who did not actually create the Underground Railroad.
As for her Black friend, Morgan said she was very hurt to lose a pal over “racial identity politics” and vowed to continue reaching out to her.
“I’m quite aware that she was Black, but that didn’t matter because I liked her. I still like her,” she said.
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Original Article: https://www.thedailybeast.com/patricia-morgan-rhode-island-lawmaker-who-sponsored-anti-crt-bill-whines-that-black-pal-no-longer-likes-her
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CRT, the system that teaches that you can have wealthy victims and poor oppressors. If all Whites are oppressors, then why do we have more White people living below the poverty line than Black? If all Blacks are victims, then how is that Oprah and LeBron each have way more money than the median White working man? We should not be teaching CRT in our schools, other than as a failed social lesson. What we need to be teaching is CWT (Critical Wealth Theory) that focuses on how the wealthy and the corporations in this nation help only the wealthy of any color. According to national data, the average CEO saw his wages increase by over 1,000% from 1978 to 2020, while the working person saw his wages increase by 18% in that same time period. Considering that the average CEO already makes over 200 times what his average worker makes, these raises don’t seem all that fair, but we are not teaching any of this in our schools, even in economics classes.
What the Republican Party of Today – the Party of cynicism negativity and misinformation – has done to its “base” throughout the country is “rewrite and redefine” CRT in a way that totally confuses it wit teaching about slavery and it’s continued “ill effects” has had on our country throughout a century and a half. CRT is a COLLEGE elective course NOT a course to be taught in grades K-12. Ands this who claim it is are either liars or ignorant of the facts.
CRT? How can a cathode ray tube dissolve a friendship?
CRT teaches that blacks are not capable of critical thinking, their worth should be based on their colour,they should not be held accountable for their actions, and they should be judged by a lower standard. That’s racist.
No doubt this has happened before.
Bet that most of the nitwits bashing and attacking her were woke white people.
Morgan is stupid to keep “reaching out” to her so called black “friend”. Blacks are taught from birth to hate white people. There’s no such thing as making friends with them. And never turn your back on them. They’re untrustworthy. A lot of stupid whites learn way too late not to trust them.
Sounds like people in this country are going to the left more and more to socialism. wake up people. The Demorats are doing this , so dont believe them.
I’ll tell you who I won’t “trust” any more or develop any type of friendships or relationships with…MAGA people. The very mentality that is destroying the Republican Party and trending it to “authoritarianism” because of its blindness and obsession of white identity power and culture. I never thought in my lifetime I would see my country torn apart and destroyed because of blind tradition and culture and a total unwillingness of people to see or understand what they are doing. So hypocritical. So easily led to fanaticism and extremism.
We quit doing business with people like you..Brainwashed. How you liking being dependent on Russia or Iran for oil…like them gas prices? I am sure if we got in a war with these countries they would still sell us oil to fight them? HOW do you like the pull out of Afghastan? Good job huh? Food prices…just lovely right? 2 million illegals coming here from 150 other countries this year, we do not know who they are. I’d stay out of malls or big venues…those terrorist like blowing up places like that. Get a gun and yes…you need ammo too. Protect your family, it’s going to get ugly. Or join the circle jerk over on Let’s go Brandon’s page. That would be Biden’s page honey.
My neice started college as a conservative came out a liberal. I am her aunt who bought her- her first car, paid 4 years of college and paid her new car off at 4800.00 so she would not have to worry about a car payment.
Her teacher told her she needed counseling and of course the councler is a liberal.
Now??? All white people are racist and white supremist….including her. She had disowned me even though I am married to a brown skin guy and my best freind is black. She and her mother were very close however now even though her Mother did not raise her to be a racist…she says her Mom did nothing to raise her ‘not to be racist’..makes since right, their relationship is gone? She said she wants to give up her opportunities in life so a black person can have her place. She has now dropped out of school, is mentally unstable, depressed and lost about 35 lbs and she was not over weight. She does not look like the same person. This is a perfect example of LIberalism IS a disease. God help her!