Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) are very similar in their ideology and end results. Tied together and delivered through Social Emotional Learning, these ideologies have infiltrated the teaching methods and curriculums in our schools.
Cultural Marxism and Critical Race Theory – the Connection
Do you know that Critical Race Theory is a component of Cultural Marxism? Take a deep dive and read about the connection as it relates to Critical Race Theory, equity and our schools.
Critical Race Theory – A Component of Cultural Marxism
Critical Race Theory (CRT)
A Critical Look at Critical Race Theory Handout (PDF)
Critical Race Theory Palm Card (PDF)
What Exactly is Critical Race Theory?
Christopher F. Rufo, who has been instrumental in the battle against CRT, explains the intellectual history of CRT and how it is devouring America’s public institutions including our schools. (18 minutes)
More from Christopher Rufo
- Critical Race Theory Would Not Solve Racial Inequality: It Would Deepen It (PDF)
“In simple terms, Critical Race Theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, replacing the class categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of White and Black.”- Critical race theorists falsely accuse the United States of being a fundamentally racist nation and condemns capitalism, individual rights, and the Constitution.
- Critical race theory ignores evidence that shows that family structure, educational attainment, and workforce participation are the primary drivers of inequality.
- Critical race theory seeks to undermine the foundations of American society and replace the constitutional system with a near-totalitarian “antiracist” bureaucracy.
- Critical Race Theory Briefing (PDF)
This comprehensive guide explains CRT with suggestions on how to win against this pervasive theology.
- Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It
“Critical race theorists must be confronted with and forced to speak to the facts. Do they support public schools separating first-graders into groups of “oppressors” and “oppressed”? Do they support mandatory curricula teaching that “all white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism”? Do they support public schools instructing white parents to become “white traitors” and advocate for “white abolition”? Do they want those who work in government to be required to undergo this kind of reeducation? How about managers and workers in corporate America? How about the men and women in our military? How about every one of us?”
Dr. James Linsay, education scholar, New Discourses
- Eight Big Reasons Critical Race Theory Is Terrible for Dealing with Racism
Dr. James Lindsay’s gives eight of the biggest problems with the entire Critical Race Theory approach.
Critical Race Theory:
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- believes racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction and therefore has its advocates look for it everywhere
- relies upon “interest convergence” (white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interests) and therefore doesn’t trust any attempt to make racism better
- is against free societies and wants to dismantle them and replace them with something its advocates control
- only treats race issues as “socially constructed groups,” so there are no individuals in Critical Race Theory
- believes science, reason, and evidence are a “white” way of knowing and that storytelling and lived experience are a “black” alternative, which hurts everyone, especially black people
- rejects all potential alternatives, like colorblindness, as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town (which is totalitarian)
- acts like anyone who disagrees with it must do so for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if those people are black (which is also totalitarian)
- cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced into
- CRT101 Excerpt – Dr. Thompson on Shame (3 minute video)
Dr. Gary Thompson, Doctor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, and co-founder of Early Life Child Psychology, discusses the effects of shame on a child.
- Is Critical Race Theory Practical? (7-minute video)
You’re in a conversation and someone says, “Critical theory helps identify and end oppression, so anyone who cares about putting a stop to oppression should support critical theory.” What would you say? This video explains CRT to answer that question.
- Critical Race Theory, the New Intolerance and Its Grip on America (PDF)
CRT makes race the prism through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life. The origins and where we are today are documented in this paper.
“In education, teachers who teach CRT will view every subject through the lens of race, keeping in mind that one race is the oppressed and the other race is the oppressor. All existing thoughts on racial justice are to be challenged and altered to explain the struggles of the oppressed.”
It’s Happening in Our Schools
- Two Types of Maps
- Critical Race Training in Education
To track CRT across the country, the Legal Insurrection Foundation has the most comprehensive database and interactive map of Critical Race Training efforts at over 500 colleges and universities, as well as at elite private schools and medical schools.
- Critical Race Training in Education
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- The Anti-CRT Map
Not to be outdone, UCLA School of Law developed an anti-CRT map to track anti-CRT efforts across local, state, and federal levels. This may be helpful information to connect with others fighting against CRT!
- The Anti-CRT Map
- MN Education Standards
- Teachers Must Demonstrate a Marxist Worldview to Obtain their Teaching License
MN teachers, in order to obtain a teacher license, will now be required to adhere to and teach ideologies such as CRT, equity, gender ideology, social justice -the Cultural Marxist agenda.
- Teachers Must Demonstrate a Marxist Worldview to Obtain their Teaching License
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- MN Social Studies Standards: Ethnic studies will turn schools into extremist boot camps
MN Social Studies standards are also being written with an embedded CRT theology, oppressed and oppressor, rewriting history.
- MN Social Studies Standards: Ethnic studies will turn schools into extremist boot camps
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- Critical Race Theory Explodes in K-12
CRT has become a cultural obsession. It is warping the hearts and minds of our children.
- Critical Race Theory Explodes in K-12
- School Curriculum
Equity has been around for some time in our educational institutions and schools.
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- ‘Social Emotional Learning’ Now a Vehicle for Critical Race Theory
Social Emotional Learning, the program of in-school “psychological training” for children, has become a major vehicle for the CRT movement. Go to Social Emotional Learning to learn how schools are using this curriculum.
- ‘Social Emotional Learning’ Now a Vehicle for Critical Race Theory
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- SEED Diversity Training
What is the connection of SEED to CRT, equity, and diversity? SEED embraced these concepts and entered our schools as teacher trainings way back in 1987!
- SEED Diversity Training
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- “Safe and Supportive Schools”
A backdoor for CRT, equity and other ideologies instituted in MN in 2017 following the passage of the Bullying Bill in 2014.
- “Safe and Supportive Schools”
- Good Trouble Coalition
- Metro principals launch ‘Good Trouble’ coalition to fight for educational justice
The ‘Good Trouble’ coalition aims to “decenter whiteness” in school structures.
- Metro principals launch ‘Good Trouble’ coalition to fight for educational justice
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- List of MN Principals Who Pledge to ‘Decenter Whiteness’
Although the “Good Trouble Coalition” site has been taken down, American Experiment has retained the list of principles. Is your child’s principle on this list? These principles are promoting social justice and CRT in their schools!
- List of MN Principals Who Pledge to ‘Decenter Whiteness’
- The Revolution in Minnesota’s Schools
It’s not education, but indoctrination writes Katherine Kersten of the Center of the American Experiment with examples from Burnsville, Edina and Hopkins.
- ISD 728: Concerned parents fight critical race theory: ‘If you care about our kids,’ don’t teach CRT
Parents from Otsego and Elk River spoke at the ISD 728 school board meeting to share their opposition to critical race theory and the racial equity lenses being used in school curriculum.
- Hopkins superintendent: ‘System of racism pervades every aspect of daily existence’
Hopkins Public Schools Superintendent Rhoda Mhiripiri-Reed welcomed teachers and staff back to school by urging them to examine their “whiteness.”
- Letter: Speak against Critical Race Theory training
ABC Newspapers Letter to the Editor, submitted by Barb Anderson
- Here Are Thousands of Teachers Who Say They’re Willing To Violate Law To Keep Pushing CRT
Is your child’s teacher one of them? Check out the list of 4200 teachers from across the country named in this article.
- Nation’s Largest Teachers Union: Teach CRT In All 50 States
The NEA continues to push the CRT narrative despite what parents or schools want.
Equity verses Equality
Equity, now expanded to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), is not the same as equality. Equity is tied to the term social justice. Equity means equal outcomes, which is very different from equal opportunities. Social justice demands things be taken from individuals in one identity group and given to those in another in order to achieve equity. Individual achievement, character and responsibility do not matter.
- 12 Pillars of Freedom (PDF)
The Battleground for Freedom by Allen Quist
In light of the fact that advocates of “equity” frequently dismiss America’s founding documents as reflections of “white privilege,” we must always be reminded that the U.S. Declaration of Independence lays the foundation of freedom in our land. The American Creed is stated in that declaration.
- Does Equity mean Equality? (60-minute video)
presentation by Dr. Josh Mulvihill at our CPL Is Your Child Really Safe? Conference
- Ahlgren: The bigotry of equity
Equality and equity are not synonymous. In fact, they are in direct conflict.
It’s Happening in Our Schools
- How ‘Equity’ Has Been Embedded in Minnesota for Decades
In this overview history, Julie Quist explains how Equity has been embedded in MN through regional, unelected governance and non-profits that have infiltrated every aspect of society from commissions to schools.
- Islamophobia and Christian Privilege: What Educators Must Know
This guidance on teaching equity was written by a man named Muhammad Khalifa who was hired by the E Carver County School District to embed equity into the schools, all to supposedly correct the achievement gap. We understand that the district is still using his materials. He has been actively engaged by many schools around the metro area.
School Equity – Eastern Carver Co. Schools Exposed (18 minutes)
- A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction: Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction (PDF)
Equity is infiltrating every aspect of education, including Math!
- A Curriculum of Political Indoctrination in Edina’s Public Schools
Whose values? Educational excellence threatened by ideology in Edina schools. An investigation exposes systematic political indoctrination of students in Edina public schools.
- Hopkins Race & Equity Initiative
Resources about equity for children, talking about race, etc.
Black Lives Matter in Public Schools is Turning Kids into Little Marxists
School systems across the country are adopting BLM curriculum at an alarming rate, indoctrinating our children to achieve Marxist objectives.
- Social Justice Books: Teaching Revolution through Literature
Schools are placing ‘Social Justice’ books on their recommended reading lists. These books are promoted by an ideologically driven movement of social activists committed to using schools to transform the beliefs and values of our nation.
How to Take a Stand and Speak Out
Parents who have taken action and have successfully changed their school district’s policies can be an inspiration for us. We too can take a stand and speak out.
A Toolkit for Combatting Critical Race Theory in Your Community: An A to Z guide on how to stop CRT and reclaim your school board (PDF)
Parents and community members who take a stand:
- Organize their parents.
You are not alone. Parents can be hesitant to speak up; however, there is strength in numbers. Organize at the local level with parents with the same concerns you have.
Examples
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- National Parent Group Emerges to Fight ‘Woke’ Education, Says It Harms Children
Elana Fishbein tells her story and why she founded No Left Turn in Education group.
- National Parent Group Emerges to Fight ‘Woke’ Education, Says It Harms Children
- Expose school administrators and school boards that promote CRT.
Review your children’s textbooks and assignments for evidence of CRT influence or ideology looking for words such as “equity,” “bias,” “justice,” or “diversity.” Speak up against CRT curriculum that you identify bringing your concerns to schools, to school boards, to local and state representatives.
Become familiar with or aware of the content of organizations embracing CRT and DEI and are producing curriculum for schools – your schools! Here are just a few examples: The National Education Association NEA Resource Guide (PDF); Learning for Justice; BLM at School (curriculum); Culturally Responsive Teaching & The Brain; Pulitzer Center.
Having difficulty finding out what is being taught to your children? Submit an open records/FOIA request. How to Request Public Information
Examples
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- Parents speak out at school board meeting, call BLM ‘toxic,’ ‘poisonous’
Lakeville School Board meeting in MN. “We’re here today to represent the millions of black Americans who disagree with the Black Lives Matter movement.”
- Parents speak out at school board meeting, call BLM ‘toxic,’ ‘poisonous’
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- Parents Revolt After Texas’s No. 1 School District Tries to Institutionalize Racism
Texas district after they found out what their schools were teaching in the name of racial justice.
- Parents Revolt After Texas’s No. 1 School District Tries to Institutionalize Racism
- Attend school board meetings en masse.
The new strategy is to push these agendas at the local level. Packed meetings help get the message across. Letter and petition campaigns can also get the board’s attention.
Find suggestions at School Boards – The Key and look at the Model School Board Language to Prohibit Critical Race Theory (PDF).
Examples
Ohio parents speak out at Lakota School Board Meeting (3 minutes)
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- Virginia parents rally to recall critical race theory-pushing school board members
Debate over racism in schools puts Virginia county in national spotlight
- Virginia parents rally to recall critical race theory-pushing school board members
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- A school district tried to address racism, a group of parents fought back
After a year of virtual learning, parents are more aware of what their children are taught in school and take action.
- A school district tried to address racism, a group of parents fought back
- Support those who publicly speak about the dangers of CRT and Equity.
Do you have board members, city council members and legislators that stand firm and speak out against the radical agendas? Lend them your support. If you have those who don’t, look for others to help get them removed from office and replace them with those who are against these detrimental agendas.
Examples
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- More parents are speaking up about toxic Critical Race Theory in schools
While a lone person can make a public statement, with the support of parents, they can make an even greater impact.
- More parents are speaking up about toxic Critical Race Theory in schools
- Take the issue to the state and national level.
Calling and writing their state congress members has resulted in states like Oklahoma, Florida, North Dakota, Tennessee, and Idaho banning CRT in their classrooms.
Examples
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- Letter to the US Department of Education (PDF)
Twenty-three organizations partnered to send a letter outlining concerns about the current policies and their implementation.
Background information at School Agenda: Biden and Congress Propose Billions for Divisive Racial Education.
- Letter to the US Department of Education (PDF)
Illustrations
The illustration below comes from the article White Supremacy & Anti-Blackness: A Covert & Overt Beast.