A race-based training program used by federal agencies claims, among other things, that saying one is “colorblind” to race is itself racist.
The training is part of a newly revealed federal diversity program that greatly expands on previously critical race theory trainings within the federal government, the Washington Examiner reported. Part of the expansion comes in the form of opposing “microaggressions,” or words and actions by one person that unintentionally upset another. As the Examiner noted, training provided to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says that offering a black student a basketball is considered offensive.
“Not only are federal workers urged to consider what they say, but also how their comments are received. In one chart, a white male is shown saying he is ‘colorblind.’ The black woman shown beside, however, takes as an insult that the white is denying her ‘racial/cultural being,’” the Examiner reported. “And, it advised men, don’t interrupt a woman speaking because they hear, ‘Women’s ideas are not valued.’”
The training documents were first obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the conservative Judicial Watch, which reported:
A slide titled “Microaggressions” defines microaggressions as “verbal and nonverbal behaviors” that “communicate negative, hostile, and derogatory messages to people rooted in their marginalized group membership (based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, etc.)” The slide further notes that microaggressions can be “intentional or unintentional,” and are “more subtle” than “using racial epithets or displaying swastikas.”
Other slides discussing “Stereotypes lead to microaggressions,” begin with a warning to the viewer: “Trigger warning: the next slide contains images of offensive stereotypes.”
Cartoons are used to depict “offensive stereotypes,” which include people of color being offered various items such as: someone wearing a hoody and gold chain being offered sports balls; a hijab-wearing girl being offered a lit bomb and a picture of Osama bin Laden; a girl being offered a maid’s apron and a sombrero; a male being offered a guitar and a construction hat; a girl being handed a bottle of Aunt Jemimah syrup; and a girl being handed a spear, a teepee, and a Cleveland Indians baseball pennant.
Judicial Watch also noted that another “microaggression” slide shows a white male saying “All lives matter,” with a woman in a hijab depicted next to him and perceiving the statement as, “Ignoring systemic racism, such as in police interactions.”
Another side-by-side comparison showed a woman wearing a pink protest hat saying, “As a woman, I know what you go through as a racial minority.” The woman in the hijab interprets this as “Your racial oppression is no different than my gender oppression.”
HD Editor’s Note: Why Is This News Biblically Relevant?
Answers In Genesis Founder and CEO, Ken Ham, has been on the forefront of the battle to counteract the new definition of race and racism brought about by the increased popularity of CTR and other anti-biblical teachings on race.
The root of the problem, Ham often explains, is a rejection of Scripture, and more specifically, the Genesis account of history.
“Apparently refusing to acknowledge so-called ‘race’ is offensive because it denies the individual ‘races’ of people,” Ham, the author of “One Race, One Blood: The Biblical Answer To Racism,” explained in an article on the topic.
“Well, not only is this obviously extreme, but it’s also bad science! There aren’t individual races of people—there is only one race, the human race,” he underscored, “The idea of different races of people is a Darwinian idea that has been rejected on biological grounds.”
“In fact, the quote, ‘there is only one race, the human race’ — originated in a New York Times article on the Human Genome Project. Dr. Craig Venter, an evolutionist, and his team made this declaration when they completed the project, because they discovered that the idea of ‘race’ has ‘little or no biological meaning,'” he described. “Really, ‘races’ is just an ‘evolutionized’ term we shouldn’t use anymore because the idea is simply not true.”
Therefore, Ham continued, for anyone to say that we “shouldn’t say there’s only one race flies in the face of what observational science has clearly shown to be true! And of course, the Bible makes it obvious there is only one race because all humans are descended from Adam!”
Universities and other organization, including now the federal government are “trying to suppress certain ideas and promote only one worldview—even contrary to observational science. Our starting point really does matter,” he asserted. “Different skin shades, ethnicities, and people groups are easily explained in a biblical worldview.”
“We have different people groups because of the division of Noah’s descendants at the Tower of Babel,” he described. “From there, newly created language families spread across the world and, reproductively isolated from one another by language and geography, people groups with distinct features and cultures soon arose. What we see in the world today is easily explained in a biblical worldview.”
“People need to know that all humans are only one race (Acts 17:26), which means they are all sinners in need of salvation,” Ham added.
It is also solely through anti-Biblical teaching that the idea can be espoused that skin color determines whether a person is inherently racist or a victim of racism.
The Bible states that there “is no respect of persons with God” (Romans 2:11). Furthermore, 1 Samuel 16:7 says that the Lord does not see people as man does “for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart” and Jesus encourages us to do the same (John 7:24).
Hal Lindsey in his article, “Divided Times: Ethnos Against Ethnos Ends At The Cross,” explained:
Jesus warned that racial conflict would increase dramatically shortly before His second coming. In Matthew 24:7, He said that in the last days, ‘Nation will rise against nation.’ If you’ve studied Bible prophecy, you probably know that the word translated “nation,” is the Greek word ‘ethnos.’ Ethnos has to do with races and tribes — ‘people groups’ in today’s vernacular. In other words, Jesus foretold the era of identity politics.
Christians believe Acts 17:26. “He [God] made from one, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” Some of the ancient manuscripts say, “from one blood.” Some omit the word blood. But in either case, this verse insists on the fundamental value of every person on earth.
