The Worst Transgressions of American History Should Be Called Democratic Party History

Critical race theorists see racial, sexual, and ethnic identities as social constructs that support systems of oppression, a view derived from the Marxist theory of class struggle. Regrettably, these theories have enthralled higher education, the Democratic activist mainstream media, and, most recently, some of the protests relating to George Floyd’s death now fanning out to the general culture.  
In the university, Critical theory and its grievance studies accoutrements (for example, critical race theory, feminist theory, and postcolonialism) are presented as the only and the correct way to understand the world (a presumption that is ultimately inconsistent with a biblical worldview), with the implication that the Western canon’s lack of gender and race diversity renders it unworthy of study. In other words, one’s gender and/or skin color make one’s ideas worth or not worth studying. 
Through this singular lens race as a social construct is enforced by those in power, and predetermines someone’s role and opportunity in society, that the purpose of philosophy and literature (and, increasingly, even natural science) is to dismantle the power structure instead of serving as vehicles through which we might come to understand the most profound questions around human existence.
As a result, our culture is alarmingly losing its necessary grounding, while fewer and fewer students are being required to explore the ideas and the history around the truth, justice, or the origins of our rights. Simply put, we now live in a culture in which training in the humanities and social sciences lacks even the vocabulary to talk about racism and prejudice apart from the framework of “systemic racism” and “white privilege.” Any dialogue quickly descends into bouts of circular reasoning and Kafka traps
If you disagree with that philosophical framework, then eo Ipso you oppose fighting racism or deny that racism even exists. And if you push back on the use of terms such as “power structure” or “systemic racism,” you are likewise impugned without a hearing. This is particularly damaging on two levels. First, it precludes any meaningful conversation about racism and race. Second, it creates a chasm between two well-meaning people who presumably agree racism is evil but disagree on the best way to address it.
  American history has traditionally been taught as project of reconciliation. This is why Jefferson the slaveholder who was yet our most recognizable source and eloquent expostulator of the Enlightenment ideals of freedom that birthed our nation with the actualization of those ideals in forming a more perfect union in the battle of the Civil War and final proclamation of emancipation, in the civil rights movements since are the very embodiments of reconciliation.
This has always been the American self-understanding and context that the progressive Marxist proponents of CRT wish to cynically confound. For it is not Jefferson’s moral failings or dissonance that compels them to attack him but the Enlightenment ideals of classical liberalism which he represents.
The principles of classical liberalism championed by Jefferson are antithetical to what progressives esteem today. Where the former values limited government, individualism, and civic virtue, the latter values expansive government, collectivism, and Social Justice. It is Jefferson’s political philosophy that progressives abhor, and it is because of his philosophy that radicals now seek the complete removal of his image, his writings, and his historical import leading to the destruction of the republic.