The system was invented to discriminate while appearing to be fair.
I wanted to apply for U.S. citizenship for my half-Cambodian son. I assembled a vast amount of documents for the big interview at the Embassy. However, the rule states that I must pay for the interview online, through a website called MyTravelGov. In order to log in they have to send you a 6-digit code for security/identification. I tried several tricks, but they never sent me the code. I contacted all sorts of U.S. Govt. website, Help pages, FAQs, YouTube videos, to find out what I was doing wrong. None of them even mentioned the sending of the code. All of these sources knew, but refused to inform me, that those security codes are not sent to Cambodian phones or computers. My application for my son’s citizenship was therefore intentionally blocked. No one at the Embassy offered any help or any answers – it was all kept secret from me.
I have described the above process at length to show how the U.S. Govt. pretends to offer citizenship to kids born to Americans in Cambodia, but in reality blocks this from happening. It’s a Catch-22, since you need the security code to log in, but they refuse to send you the security code. This is a conscious policy, concocted deliberately by the Trump régime, to keep half-caste Cambodians from becoming U.S. citizens. It’s insidious, because the policy is not written, nor is it ever divulged. The Embassy won’t admit that the hidden, unstated aim is to prevent foreigners from gaining U.S. citizenship. If you play by the rules as stated, you will be thwarted, and wonder what rule you have broken.
This is an excellent example of what Critical Race Theory (CRT) studies: the systematic and deliberate machinations that governments go through to discriminate against certain races. Advanced level students study complex systems in order to identify the subtle and secret ways that the systems discriminate.
Here’s a hypothetical example I just invented. Suppose a black woman in a predominantly black zip code applies for a license to open a business. She jumps through all the hoops, of course, and is promised a business code number. However, she never receives the code, despite being shunted from office-to-office, from website-to-website, from telephone-to-telephone, making all sorts of attempts to find out what went wrong. What is kept secret from her is that the codes are not sent to her zip code, in order to discriminate against black businesses. She is made to feel like the guilty party – like she was the one who made some sort of mistake.
I’ll bet every black person in the U.S. can tell you a story like the one I just invented. MAGA cultists don’t believe them. To MAGA, CRT just means teaching about slavery or Black History, because they don’t understand the subtle ways that systems discriminate. But CRT is really studying how systems can be rigged to discriminate.
I have now witnessed CRT first hand, as the U.S. government claims publicly to facilitate citizenship for foreign-born children, but in practice consciously and on purpose develops a system that blocks such citizenship. My further evidence is the stonewalling I got from the Embassy staff, who would never inform me or admit to the heinous system they had invented. I had jumped through the hoops the first time around three years ago – for my first son – and wasn’t discriminated against like this. That was under Biden. I attribute this new discrimination to the Trump régime, or at least, to the anti-foreigner attitude that permeates his régime.