By State Rep. Tom Gann

On May 7, Governor Stitt signed House Bill 1775 into law. Oklahoma is one of six states which have passed or are in the process of passing bans on this evil doctrine. The Oklahoma House passed HB1775by a margin of 77 yeas to 18 nays, and the Oklahoma Senate it passed the bill 38-9. The bill, by Rep. Kevin West and Sen. David Bullard, bans K-12 schools from teaching any course with any material that declares “one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex” or that “an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”

It includes several provisions, such as not allowing instruction that tells children an individual “should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or her race or sex.” It also prevents public schools from teaching that “meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic are racist or sexist or were created by members of a particular race to oppress members of another race.”

It prevents colleges and universities from requiring students to “engage in any form of mandatory gender or sexual diversity training or counseling” and bans any “orientation or requirement that presents any form of race or sex stereotyping or a bias on the basis of race or sex.”

Opponents and critics of the bill included the Oklahoma Parent Teachers Association (OKPTA) the Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA), and of course Oklahoma University (OU). The critics falsely accuse that banning the teaching of racial superiority would mean schools could not teach about many historic events. This is a blatant misrepresentation of the bill.

Those who blatantly misrepresent the bill or those who voted against the bill, are for the teaching of racism and sexism to our youngest of students. As Dr. Everett Piper stated in his recent editorial in the Washington Times, “Democrats in Oklahoma prove they are racist.” One can only imagine the hell our country would be in if this doctrine ever gained a foothold in America.

You see it is really not about race or gender, it is all about Marxism. Race and gender are the dividing lines being used by the Marxists to divide and make Americans suspicious of one another to destroy America. According to a New York Post editorial by Christopher Rufo, “Originally, the Marxist built its political power on the theory of class conflict. Karl Marx believed that the primary characteristic of industrial societies was the imbalance of power between capitalists and workers. The solution according to Marx was revolution.”

The reason Americans have never developed this sense of class division is because of America itself and the principles of freedom America was founded upon, i.e. The American Dream!! Many have come to this nation because of the potential to rise above their origins through education, hard work, and good citizenship and capitalize on their talents and succeed.

One thing the left is persistent on, is their insanity, that is, Marxism to Socialism to Communism, which has been tried over and over in other countries at the cost of hundreds of millions of lives but has always failed. Rather than give up on this evil doctrine, Marxists try to repackage it and sell it to a new generation. Since classism does not work in America, Marxists created a substitute in order to bring about a new revolutionary conflict based upon racial and ethnic categories. That is why they need and strive for so much diversity. It just makes it easier to divide us rather than unite us on the principles of America.

Today BLM, “Black Lives Matter” is used to draw people into a pseudo moral cause. Who wants to be against Black Lives Matter? The slogan presupposes that at some time black lives did not matter, but that is not the truth. Black lives have always and will always matter especially to God. Their newly created words, labels and slogans help set the “trap” to allow Marxists to ignore anyone disagreeing with them thereby labeling them “racist.” But BLM really means “Be Like Marx”.A Marxist likes to hide behind words. Words they create and words they redefine. Marxists hide behind these new words and chant phrases and like to sloganeer, intimidating, until everyone is chanting it. Marxists use the slogan “Black Lives Matter” to intimidate and gain political advantage without having to explain themselves.

Be like Marx, BLM’s website lists the things they say are wrong in America. What the Marxists say we must rid ourselves of is the nuclear family. Marxists believe the family is nothing more than a social construct rooted in a patriarchal societal system. However, it is the bedrock of society as it was the first institution God ordained with Adam and Eve, the family unit. Marxism is a Godless doctrine.

Be like Marx, (BLM) wants to get rid of objective truth found in scientific fact. Take for instance the use of pseudoscience to gain political advantage especially using sex. They lecture us about how we need to follow science yet will deny the scientific reality of women and demand women give up their bathrooms, showers and sports to men calling themselves women. This is just rebellion against the order God created in the beginning, man and woman. Sex was created by God to procreate and he made the sexes with distinguishing attributes that cannot be altered.

Be like Marx, (BLM)’s demands the removal of statues and monuments that remind us of our past. In doing so we lose our history. America’s past has good, bad and ugly in it. To remove our ability to recall or remember those things, especially the bad, we invite a new revisionist brand of history that is needed to justify the end and the means of Marxism. The “1619 Project” is the new revisionist history Marxists say America was founded upon. It has no scholarly acceptance among historians. America is an exceptional idea and experiment in self-governance and if we do not allow ourselves to remember the past, we are destined to repeat the bad things.

And now with the passage of HB1775we try to keep this evil doctrine, Critical Race Theory, a Trojan Horse for Marxism, from being taught to our children. Marxists do not care about lives because they destroy lives by poisoning the minds of all people including black people who disagree with this doctrine. We should never teach our children to judge each other by the color of their skin. There is a special warning from Jesus about teaching children. Jesus is recorded in the book of Matthew chapter 18 verse 6, “Whoever causes one of these little ones, those who believe in Me, to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.” To allow this evil doctrine to be taught to our children will only lead to America’s destruction.

State Representative Tom Gann (R-Inola) is one of the “Top Conservative Legislators” with a 100 percent score on the 2021 Oklahoma Conservative Index.