DEATH OF A CITY:  While we cope with a dramatically growing Chinese threat, the hard left is busy destroying as much of American civilization as it can.  They must be so proud of their work.  From Fox: 

EXCLUSIVE – Mayor Eric Adams's New York City forced all of its employees into a radical critical race theory-inspired training, according to a copy of the training reviewed by Fox News Digital. 

The "mandatory" training was sent to all New York City employees with a March 6 deadline. "The training provides all NYC employees with a framework to understand… the importance of racial equity… in the workplace," the email said.

The controversial lens expressed in the training is called critical race theory, which holds that America is and was always structurally racist; CRT adds that the U.S. was designed from its start to systematically oppress minority groups in order to uphold systems of power for the dominant culture or White racial group. CRT also maintains an oppressor versus oppressed lens of society and classifies people into groups based on supposed "privilege." 

A source familiar with the "racial equity" training told Fox News Digital, "Where they were discussing equity, how we have to look at people through a particular lens, that contradicted… [the idea that] we should treat everybody equally."

"I do not agree with what they want us to do as city employees. The [racial equity training] leads me to believe that they want the contracts with the city and the hiring from the city being looked at through this lens. And that's what I think is really unfair. It goes against their [stated claims]… that everybody should be treated equally."

The training said that there was no scientific basis to race, and that it was invented to create a system of "exclusion and oppression."

"Race has no genetic or scientific basis. It is a social construct created to classify people on the arbitrary basis of skin color and other physical features," it said. "Despite this, race has a very real impact on people's lives. This is because our society has used race to establish and justify systems of power, privilege, exclusion and oppression.

COMMENT:  Awful, just awful.  Real Marxist garbage, whose only effect is to divide people, one from the other.  It adds no useful skills, and generates hatred for this good nation.  We had great hopes for Mayor Adams, a black man who had served with the police.  I think he means well, but he has fallen under the influence of crackpots, and will probably fail. 

The losers in critical race theory are black children, who, instead of receiving an education that will sustain and broaden their lives, are treated as the forced labor of a cruel governing class, which wants to keep them as a private, blind army.

There is now national pushback against the awfulness of what is going on in New York.  It is led by Republicans like Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and Glenn Youngkin of Virginia.  They must have our help.  The presidential election next year will be the most important of our generation.  Losing is not an option.

February 5, 2023