OR: How Christopher Rufo aspires to be the Tucker Carlson of higher education ...
I hate to link to it, but you really need to be able to see it:
It not only pre-exists the development of Critical Race Theory, it pre-exists the entire life of the race-hustling Rufo.
The emphasis on the idea that Blacks were passive recipients of the white grace of emancipation delivered by President Abraham Lincoln is one of the prime mantras of the avowedly racist writings of the highly influential "Dunning School" of Civil War and Reconstruction history at Columbia University that dominated US textbooks from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Here's an example of the kind of writing that the Dunning School offered, from William E. Woodward's Meet General Grant (1928):
"The American negroes are the only people in the history of the world that ever became free without any effort of their own. ... They had not started the war nor ended it, [but] twanged banjos around the railroad stations, sang melodious spirituals, and believed that some Yankee would soon come along and give each of them forty acres and a mule.”
This kind of racist, anti-historical crap (to which both Mssrs. Rufo and Carlson appear to subscribe) was most ably answered by W. E. B. Dubois in the closing pages of Black Reconstruction in 1935:
