Critical race theory is the eugenics of our time - a white supremacist doctrine dividing us by colour

Critical race theory is the eugenics of our time — a white supremacist doctrine dividing us by colour, writes Warren Mundine.

When you centre race as the basis for your existence, you’ve forgotten the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Forget those words and you end up in a dead-end street.

I come from a family who fought racism. We based our lives on King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

We believed every human being is a child of God. That we’re all brothers and sisters. That you should treat all people with love and respect.

Of course, we weren’t immune from racism, ignorance and hate. We lived under a system of racial segregation until I was 13 years old.

We had to confront and fight against it. But you don’t defeat racism, ignorance and hate, with racism, ignorance and hate.

When you centre race as the basis for your existence, you’ve forgotten the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

That’s why I oppose Critical Race Theory (CRT). The new eugenics of our time.

CRT says “systemic racism” is permanently ingrained in all our laws, institutions and customs which operate to maintain racial inequality, regardless of individual attitudes.

CRT says white people have inherent “white privilege”, not from their life circumstances or ­financial situation, but from their “whiteness”.

It says black people are inherently disadvantaged, not because of poverty or denial of opportunities, but from having dark skin.

CRT says Barack Obama’s daughters — from a wealthy family, with the best education in the world and for whom no door is closed — are disadvantaged.

But a white child from a trailer park in rural Alabama with a meth-addicted single mother is privileged. That’s nonsense. Saying that race ­determines your place in life is racist by its very definition.

CRT is just another white supremacist doctrine. White supremacy says white people are superior, black people are inferior.

CRT says white people are privileged, black people are disadvantaged. Different labels for the same thing. The only difference is one thinks whiteness is good while the other thinks it’s evil.

Warren Mundine says Critical Race Theory is the new eugenics of our time.

It’s abusive to tell black children they’re disadvantaged for being black. It’s demoralising and cuts them down. Tell them they can do anything they set their mind to; because they can.

It is also abusive to tell white children to feel shame and guilt because they possess some evil privilege.

Recently, white male students at a Victorian school were forced to stand up in class and be labelled “oppressors”, informed the world’s evils are because of white males like them.

It’s a disgraceful thing to do. I was horrified to read it because I experienced the same in primary school years — except then it was brown and black children singled out.

What happened to me in the sixties cannot be undone by doing the same thing to others. You end up in a circular prison of hate. You don’t defeat bigotry with more bigotry.

It ignores all historical facts to say white people are the only group who’ve ever done wrong, as if only Europeans and their empires had slaves or invaded and colonised other countries.

You’d be hard-pressed to find any society in history that didn’t have slaves, be they Arab, African, Asian, South and Central American, North American, Pacific Islanders.

Plenty of non-European kingdoms and empires across the world have invaded and colonised others.

This wasn’t an isolated incident. Students across Western societies are being indoctrinated in this bigoted ideology.

A few weeks ago, Sydney primary school students made posters with slogans “White lives matter too much”, “End white supremacy” and “Stop killer cops”, parroting the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Once an obscure academic theory, CRT now infects everyday life, crippling educational institutions and corporates, supported by cancel culture.

Opposing Critical Race Theory.... Warren Mundine.

We now live in a world where people who say the wrong thing (even from decades ago) are made to recant and apologise, people shut their mouths for fear of losing their jobs and corporations and sporting codes take orders from a far-left political movement, all under attack from witch-hunters happy to destroy lives.

Like some Stalinist/Maoist ­pantomime.

CRT crusaders should learn the history of humanity. It never ends well when you need fear and indoctrination to make people support you.

Look at just about every autocratic monarch and dictator in history. Time catches up with them all. CRT crusaders have become the very people they say they’re fighting against.

In my family we never saw ourselves as victims. We never saw any person’s skin colour as making them an oppressor.

It was their character and actions that were important. Our house was filled with people of all backgrounds, Indigenous, Chinese, Indonesian, Indian, Croats, Germans, English, Irish, white Australians, Malays and people of all religions, Jews, Christians, Muslim, atheist, Buddhist.

We didn’t hate people with a different opinion than ours. We saw all of this as an opportunity to educate and, more importantly, to learn.

That’s the kind of world I want to live in. Not one ruled by racist dogma. We need CRT out of our schools, corporates and institutions.

Nyunggai Warren Mundine AO is author of Speaking My Mind and Warren Mundine – In Black and White @nyunggai