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Critical Race Theory: Itâs a Cancer Not a Cure
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Critical Race Theory: Itâs a Cancer Not a Cure
Critical Race Theory: Itâs a Cancer Not a Cure | Tuesday, May 04, 2021
Ryan Bomberger is the co-founder of The Radiance Foundation.
Iâm half white and half black. My melanin doesnât change my worth or my propensity to sin. Yet we live in a culture where we are told that our skin color confers upon us a status that is fixed, assigned by an elite class of humans who call themselves âscholars.â They want us to see everything through the broken lens of âraceââa human construct that has only served to dehumanize us throughout history. As a person with brown skin, I reject my assigned âstatusâ and refuse to see everything through that distorted prism.