Rush Limbaugh provided an apt summary of Critical Race Theory on his April 4 show, by way of exploring how President Barack Obama would react if the Supreme Court actually struck down Obamacare.
Limbaugh's comments were re-posted by the leftists at Media Matters for America, who offered no comment--as, indeed, they could not, because Limbaugh's summary of Critical Race Theory was both accurate and incisive:
Snerdley, have you ever heard of the concept of "critical legal studies"? My friends, have you ever heard of the concept of critical legal studies? Critical legal studies is taught at Harvard, and it basically argues that law is politics, that all law is politics. And there's an offshoot of it, and that's what Derrick Bell taught: Critical race theory. And what Derrick Bell did was take the notion of critical legal studies that all law is politics and add a racial concept to it. Obama learned law at Harvard. Critical legal studies: All law is politics. The law is just a tool to protect the wealthy. This is what they believe; it's what's taught.
The law and the Constitution are simply there to keep the man down. All roads lead back to Marx. All roads lead back to socialism, communism, Marxism to one degree or another. And so Obama sees the law as a tool to power. Nothing more, nothing less. It's nothing special. It deserves no special respect or reverence. It's just another aspect of the entire political spectrum to be competed in and to win, and it has really no special place. The rule of law is viewed as oppression. Remember, to understand these people, folks, you have to understand how they view the founding. They view the founding of this country as a series of documents written by "rich white guys" who protected slavery.
That's how they view it. And they view the Constitution as a mechanism for rich white guys to always hold onto all of the power. This is what they are taught. And so their objective is to take that apart, to strike that down, and this is where critical legal studies comes into play. This is where the whole nation of calling the Bill of Rights "a charter of negative liberties" comes into play. These are people that don't have a love and adoration or a respect for the miracle that was the founding of this country. They look at it as an abject mistake that has to be fixed.
Accordingly, Limbaugh predicted, Obama's response to a loss at the Supreme Court would be to cast the justices as a "Republican" court, standing in the way of a grand historic march to liberation and equality.
Obama would also continue to rely on allies in the media, Limbaugh said, to delegitimize the Court and call for those justices who voted against the law to be impeached.
An apt, concise summary in plain language of how Bell's Critical Race Theory still influences Obama's approach to governance--a fact that the media and the left have been trying to hide.
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