Teaching Black History in schools may be consistent with CRT, but we agree that it is not CRT as CRT is not a curriculum and is not practiced at the K-12 level. We agree that the insistence that it is a racist talking point meant to scare white people. They can call whatever they want in the hope that people will get their ire up about what they don't know, and that is true.

I confess to caring about the Democratic Party, and I'm not ashamed to say so. The problem with the Democratic Party is that we still don't have enough Democrats in office. The margin in the House is as thin as an apple peel, and it takes only four votes to turn that majority into a minority. The Senate isn't a majority; it's a tie, if we're lucky. Unfortunately, Democrats still lack the numbers to pass legislation that's not only helpful for us, but to the majority of Americans as well.

If we want to save ourselves, then we have to save the Democrats. Anyone who wants to castigate them without having a plan is just going to have more to complain about.

No, of course you never said that we had to have people who look like us on the ticket before we would vote. That's not what we've said; it's what we've proven. When Barack Obama was on the Presidential ticket, we got up and got out. In the off-year elections, we stayed home and lost the House and Senate. In 2016, we were either unenthusiastic or we bought into the manufactured hype of how awful Hillary Clinton was. The end result was that we stayed home and the Democrats lost by Electoral Vote margins that we should have won. I'm not "blaming" black people for how we vote or don't vote. What I am saying is that because we have so much more at stake than others, that it behooves us to get out there. We know by now who's for us an a'gin us.