Home Depot Co-Sponsored 'Systemic Racism' Resource Hub That Smears Christians as 'Haters'
BY TYLER O'NEIL MAR 25, 2021 7:55 PM ET
The Home Depot generally leans conservative. In 2018, The Home Depot Political Action Committee gave $1.3 million to Republicans and $742,680 to Democrats. 2ndVote, a right-leaning nonprofit that ranks companies by ideology, rates Home Depot between “neutral” and “leans conservative.” Yet the Home Depot Foundation partnered with the Georgia Center for Nonprofits in sponsoring a “diversity” resource hub that pushes the idea of systemic racism, supports the “1619 Project” curriculum, and endorses the accusation that mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits are really “hate groups” to be listed alongside the Ku Klux Klan.
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits has launched a “resource hub” providing “Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness resources for nonprofits.” The Home Depot branding on the page is hardly subtle.
“Correcting systemic racism and unconscious bias can’t happen without practical solutions, sustained practice, and every one of us – in each organization and across the sector – working together. It’s our hope that the information we’ve curated here can contribute meaningfully to your own efforts and, ultimately, to sector-wide progress,” the hub web page explains.
The idea of “systemic racism” traces back to Marxist critical race theory. Critical race theory teaches that any racial disparities must ipso facto be proof of some hidden racial bias or discrimination, regardless of civil rights laws explicitly forbidding such discrimination.
Marxist critical race theory inspired much of the destruction of the Black Lives Matter and antifa riots over the summer. While protesters rightly expressed outrage at the treatment of George Floyd, many of the protests devolved into looting, vandalism, and arson in which lawless thugs — acting in the name of fighting racism — destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. Civil rights leader Robert Woodson has warned that “low-income blacks are the collateral damage” of the so-called”anti-racist” narrative.
The resource hub includes a link for “Training and Popular Education” that directs users to a Racial Equity Tools web page. That page links to articles and projects such as “Abolish Columbus Day: Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples: Resources and Tools” from the Zinn Project; a “Black Lives Matter at School” curriculum; a “Personal Privilege Profile” suggesting that white skin color gives people social “privilege;” and the curriculum based on The New York Times‘ “1619 Project.”
The 1619 Project has undergone a series of embarrassing corrections, revealing the fact that its central contention — that the arrival of the first slaves into what would become the United States in 1619 (which is not even the right date) represents America’s true founding, not the Declaration of Independence in 1776 — is patently false. Scholars have demanded that the Pulitzer board revoke the 1619 Project’s Pulitzer Prize due to the “glaring historical fallacy” at the project’s heart.
States across the country are considering laws to prevent public schools from using the 1619 Project curriculum, yet this Home Depot Foundation-sponsored resources hub indirectly endorses
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2021/03/25/home-depot-co-sponsored-systemic-racism-resource-hub-that-smears-christians-as-haters-n1435115