LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes.
Lighthouse Trails’ own response to “wokeness” including Critical Race Theory, can be found in a number of our articles. One is our 2020 report titled “Critical Race Theory, Southern Baptist Convention, and a Marxist “Solution” That Will Not Work.”
“The Whiteness of Wokeness”
By Wilfred Reilly (Prager University)
How do you explain this? Most people agitating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color. They are overwhelmingly woke, white leftists.
They use the genuine plight of poor minorities as a wedge, a lever by which to change the basic character of American society—a change that most people of color do not want.
Both anecdotal evidence and hard data bear this out.
A good example is the woke left’s obsession with politically correct speech. Ostensibly, this is all in the service of protecting the tender feelings of long-suffering minorities. Click here to watch the video of this talk or for the full transcript.