Lately "critical thinking" has been on hard times, its detractors seem to be attempting to eradicate history, science, fact, anything connecting us to reality and to one another. But, for what reasons?

Do they think, given time, critical thought might lead to a revolt if White Christian Nationalists finally realized Jesus was not white, not Christian, and not American (also, not German, not Swedish, not Mexican, not Brazilian, not Chinese, not Russian...)? 

It won't.

What if critical thought led all people to understand humans would not be on Earth today if 2 to 6 million years ago, when the sun was closer to our planet than it is today...without the specific amount and type of melanin that produces very, very, very black skin able to absorb and bear that intense radiation, the first men and women and children on Earth, the first humans, living in Africa, would have been roasted to a crisp, burned to death, desolved into ashes. There would have been no one left to trek to cooler climates where their black skin lightened.

We all, every human on Earth, owe our existence to Black skin.

A few decades of critical thinking and we might all think...ah, black skin lightened...it did not become unblack...that there is simply a spectrum from black to lighter and lighter and lighter.  Still black.

And, what would it change if we had the revelation, wait a minute, this may quite possibly mean "Everyone is Black"?

Well, probably nothing.

Forget critical thinking, maybe even minimal thinking might even lead up to reasoning that because Trans people really do exist in every country, in every culture, maybe being trans isn't a decision.

Or, because women are, at least, as reponsible as men for every life on Earth, both are equally critical to our survival.

I'm just glad I can still say "Gay" and "Black" and "White Christian Nationalists" and "Women" and "Men" in Oklahoma.