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What Is Critical Race Theory?

Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Songwriter: Lee Stanfield
Gaggle: Tucson
Key: Middle C
Written: March 4, 2023
Business & Economy Education Gender Equity Government & Politics Human & Civil Rights Labor & Worker Rights Local Issues Soldiers & Veterans War & Peace

What is “Crit-ical Race Theo-ry“? Just this…. my friend

It says our sys-tems have ra-cis-m built in.

And it’s not tau-aught in K through twelve.

very slowly-> It’s op-tional e-ven at coll-ege lev-el.

faster-> But that’s… been… lied about just to stir up fear!

Corp‘rate poli-ti-cians lie a-bou-out it to

dis-tract us while they steal our rights and mo-on-ey too.

slowly-> Their weal-thy donors pay them to create

slowly-> di-vi-sions a-mong us by fos-tering hate

faster-> so they can stay in pow-er yea-ear af-ter year!

The bill-ion-aires want to make sure we ne-e-ver learn

how to end ra-cis-m, which serves their con-cern.

They want high pro-fits and what that means

is keep-ing wa-ges for most of us lean

slowly-> while pro-vid-ing some-one else to blame, you see.

faster-> If we don’t ad-mit our mis-takes we’ll nee-ver learn

fast-> how to do things bet-ter and we’ll just re-turn

fast-> to the cha-os of a-noth-er “dark age“.

very slowly-> Isn’t it time to turn the page

very slowly-> and start act– ing… like we’re… ONE HU-MAN-I-TY?

THAT’S Critical Granny Theory!