Critical Race Theory is a racist, anti-American ideology that seeks to divide Americans by race. Is America a nation that believes in racial integration, or not? Are we a country united in common destiny, or is our destiny defined by race, for better or worse? Should national policy aspire to be colorblind, fair to everyone, regardless of race? Or must we view every policy decision through the lens of race and color? Should voting be based on the will of the people, or should we have one united fighting force? Or should there be racial quotas based on skin color? Is America still a country that has a dream of racial integration? Or is it one that believes that whiteness is evil or ignorant? Should we teach children in schools that white people are evil? And is capitalism an engine of upward mobility, or a manifestation of white supremacy? Is democracy less important than racial quotas? And should we still have one unified fighting force, or be one united force? CRT is an explicitly racist ideology. It answers the questions I have asked in direct contradiction to the values of most Americans and the organizing principles of our great nation. And it is everywhere, our military, our education system, corporate America, virtually every aspect of our government, and the America Last Press. It will destroy our country if we do not diagnose it, recognize its manifestations, and vanquish it from our nation. And if you need marching orders, you ll see the legislation in Washington and throughout America that is the antidote to this sickness. and if you re ready to join the fight against CRT, you re the antidote Firebrand . Join our movement to defeat CRT! . . . and take action to defeat this sickness in the fight for freedom to defeat it by taking the sickness! and take the fight to the streets against it and defeat it in our nation on the streets . . and in the courts , and in Congress, and in every other place that s got it. and everywhere else ! Learn more about what CRT actually is, and why it s evil, and how it s ruining our country, and what it s actually good for us, and who it s good, not good, and where it s helping us to be good, and what we can do about it in this episode of Firebrand, Firebrand is fighting for us.
00:00:03.000Matt Gaetz was one of the very few members in the entire Congress who bothered to stand up against permanent Washington on behalf of his constituents.
00:00:10.000Matt Gaetz right now, he's a problem in the Democratic Party.
00:00:13.000He can cause a lot of hiccups in passing the laws.
00:00:16.000So we're going to keep running the stories to keep hurting him.
00:00:20.000If you stand for the flag and kneel in prayer, if you want to build America up and not burn her to the ground, then welcome, my fellow patriots!
00:00:52.000If critical race theory means making children in school fixate on race, I'm not for that.
00:00:59.000If it's about collective guilt, I didn't do anything to your great-great-great-grandfather.
00:01:08.000I don't want to be responsible for that.
00:01:09.000If it's about, you know, a toxicity of just from being born white, if it's about dividing everybody into oppressor and oppressive, oppressed and oppressor, I'm not for that.
00:01:22.000So there are things that are being taught and are going around that I'm not for, that if that was critical race theory, I wouldn't be for.
00:02:10.000Should schools teach children that whiteness is evil or ignorant?
00:02:15.000Is capitalism an engine of upward mobility, or a manifestation of white supremacy?
00:02:21.000Should voting be based on the will of the people, or is democracy less important than racial quotas?
00:02:28.000Are we still a nation that has a dream?
00:02:31.000Critical race theory is an explicitly racist ideology.
00:02:36.000It's anti-white, it's anti-black, and it's really anti-Asian, too, actually.
00:02:41.000It answers the questions I've asked in direct contradiction to the values of most Americans and the organizing principles of our great nation.
00:02:50.000And critical race theory is everywhere.
00:02:53.000Our military, our education system, corporate America, virtually every aspect of our government.
00:02:59.000All pushed endlessly by the true enemy of the people, the America Last Press.
00:03:05.000It will destroy our country if we do not diagnose it, recognize its manifestations, and vanquish it from our nation.
00:03:12.000Dr. Malvo is a critical race theorist who recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee to support financial reparations to descendants of slaves.
00:03:21.000Yes, your current Congress is actually voting on something as divisive as racial reparations.
00:03:27.000The explicit bigotry of her argument was on full display.
00:03:39.000We'll expose the radical ideological core of critical race theory.
00:03:44.000I've got results of our investigation into how CRT is being backed by powerful forces in big media, big government, and big tech.
00:03:52.000You'll see the legislation in Washington and throughout America that is the antidote to this sickness.
00:03:58.000And if you need marching orders, we'll have information about how parents, patriots, tiger moms are all joining together for empowerment and action to defeat critical race theory.
00:04:09.000One way the woke media tries to cover for CRT is to say its opponents are simply misinformed.
00:04:23.000The Republicans invoking it as a cudgel don't seem to actually understand what it is about.
00:04:29.000First of all, most people who talk about critical race theory don't actually know what it is.
00:04:34.000And so they've begun to demonize it in a way that they have whitewashed the public's mind in the way that they've whitewashed our history.
00:04:44.000And there have been several reports, and I've run into this as well, about legislators not really being able to define what critical race theory is.
00:04:51.000I would say that I doubt that Rick DeSantis or most Republicans actually know what critical race theory is.
00:04:58.000His name is Ron DeSantis, governor of the third largest state.
00:07:07.000Ironically, Americans who self-identify as not racist, whether they're conservatives, moderates, liberals, radicals, progressives, They don't realize, I think many of us don't realize, that we are connecting ourselves to a history of slave traders.
00:07:38.000I mean, the one thing you cannot say about Joe is that he's a racist.
00:07:42.000The prosecutors of the Salem witch trials would be proud.
00:07:45.000After all, only witches deny being witches.
00:07:49.000Throw her in the lake and tie her feet together.
00:07:52.000If she survives, she's obviously a witch.
00:07:54.000If she ends up dead at the bottom of the lake, we will acknowledge her innocence.
00:07:58.000Don't trust anyone who tells you that only the innocent plead guilty, and only the guilty plead innocent.
00:08:05.000Sometimes, innocent people just act innocent.
00:08:09.000The best way to understand critical race theory is as a criticism and rejection of the two main goals of the civil rights movement, mainly racial integration and colorblind public policy.
00:08:21.000Dr. King believed that all people of all races should live together and that public policy shouldn't treat different races differently.
00:08:29.000I have a dream that my four little children We'll one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
00:08:44.000One day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
00:08:56.000When critical race theorists are not making Dr. King's dream more difficult to achieve with their demonization of white people, they're critiquing Dr. King himself directly, asserting their deep dissatisfaction with the civil rights discourse.
00:09:11.000Critical race theory doesn't call for an integrated, colorblind America imagined by Dr. King.
00:09:17.000It tantalizes the worst impulses within us.
00:09:20.000Ethno-nationalism, otherizing our fellow Americans who don't look like us.
00:09:25.000Dangerous division of the races in our great country.
00:09:31.000Separate is not equal, nor preferable, nor American.
00:09:35.000Critical race theorist Gary Peeler reduces these divisive ideas to writing.
00:09:40.000Whatever the intentions of black and white integrationists, it should now be apparent that the exclusion of a nationalist approach to racial justice has been a cultural and political mistake.
00:09:53.000Racial nationalism is not a cure for racism.
00:09:56.000It is a recipe for more racism and probably more violence harmful to America.
00:10:02.000Critical race theorists aren't the intellectual successors to Dr. King.
00:10:06.000They embody the most separatist, harmful ideals of Malcolm X. Dr. King wanted us to be colorblind.
00:10:13.000The CRT gang would separate us based on race.
00:10:17.000How we treat each other, how the government treats all of us would be based exclusively on race.
00:10:23.000And if you aren't the preferred race, look out, hold on, buckle up.
00:10:27.000It doesn't end well for you or your children.
00:10:30.000As critical race theorist John O'Kalamar warns, The voices that matter in a CRT world are distinctively non-white.
00:10:57.000They refuse our vision to make America one nation under God, instead choosing a land of endless grievances.
00:11:05.000In practice, see the heartbreaking impact on high school student Brad Taylor.
00:11:11.000I'll take you back to my first day at RHS this fall.
00:11:14.000The principal came out and gave us a heartfelt speech about equality and standing together.
00:11:19.000He began to list countless races, such as Latino, Asian, expressing how much they matter and how important they are.
00:11:26.000But never once did he mention a race or identity that reflects me, or half the kids that were in the class.
00:11:32.000Now, members of the board, I know you haven't been to school in a while, and I know none of you or most of you don't have any kids left in the school district, but you must admit how uncomfortable it will be to be characterized just by your skin color on the first day of school and be thought that you were wrong just because of your skin color.
00:11:50.000To be clear, I don't need you to tell me that I matter, but hearing the condolences given to other races and leaving just one race out, inevitably you'll start to feel like you've done something wrong.
00:12:02.000And in our principal's attempt to unify us, he instead created unwarranted boundaries and barriers between his students, pitting us against each other based on characteristics that we can't control.
00:12:12.000The first day of school during the wonder years is hard enough without your principal worshipping at the altar of the race baiters.
00:12:21.000In September 2020, Trump issued Executive Order 13950 banning critical race theory.
00:12:28.000The Trump order notes, The Department of Treasury recently held a seminar that promoted the arguments that virtually all white people, regardless of how woke they are, contribute to racism.
00:12:39.000Training materials from Argonne National Laboratories, a federal entity, stated that racism is interwoven into every fabric of America and described colorblindness and meritocracy as actions of bias.
00:12:54.000Materials from Sandia National Laboratories, also a federal entity for non-minority males, stated that an emphasis on rationality over emotionality was characteristic of white males and that those present must acknowledge their privilege to each other.
00:13:11.000The Trump order concludes that all Americans are created equal and that critical race theory in the federal workforce is strictly prohibited.
00:13:21.000Sadly, but not surprisingly, President Biden repealed the Trump order on his first day, replacing it with a full embrace of critical race theory.
00:13:31.000Equality as a governing concept was replaced with equity.
00:13:35.000Equality and equity are not the same thing, as Kamala Harris tells us in this Hokie campaign video.
00:13:41.000So there's a big difference between equality and equity.
00:13:44.000Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount.
00:13:49.000The problem with that, not everybody's starting out from the same place.
00:13:52.000So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you're still going to be that far back behind me.
00:14:02.000It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.
00:14:13.000Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.
00:14:17.000If having everyone end up in the same place sounds like an embrace of socialism and a rejection of capitalism, well that's exactly the point.
00:14:26.000After all, Kendi tells us that capitalism is essentially racist, and racism is essentially capitalist.
00:14:32.000Kendi also tells us that race-neutral public policy is an illusion.
00:14:36.000All policy must be either racist or anti-racist.
00:14:41.000If we eliminated the term race-neutral, From the American vocabulary to recognize that all policies are either racist or anti-racist.
00:14:53.000So everything is racist or anti-racist, and to get into the anti-racist club, you must begin by stepping into the racism confessional.
00:15:02.000Imagine having to categorize every policy at every level of government as either racist or anti-racist.
00:15:07.000Senate Resolution 241 commemorates World Press Freedom Day.
00:16:07.000Critical race theorists tell us to reject the traditional dictates that implore us to write and study as detached observers whose work is purportedly objective, neutral, and balanced.
00:16:23.000It's all for suckers, if you ask Team CRT. Instead, critical race theorists embrace the subjectivity of perspective and are avowedly political.
00:16:34.000In other words, they aren't here to study and review and analyze.
00:16:50.000All that matters is that they subjectively believe that a racial reorder of society benefits them.
00:16:56.000One person, one vote democracy, another American value that the critical race theorists would jettison to accomplish their goals.
00:17:03.000Critical race theorist Lanny Guineer writes, There is a need to talk one man, one vote a little less and a little more of political equity as a functional component of effective representation.
00:17:17.000They call it race-conscious districting.
00:17:20.000But what they really mean is a race-based quota system in government that will truly be not representative.
00:17:27.000Critical race theory is an attack on our representative form of government.
00:17:31.000But that doesn't stop the America Last Media from giving CRT a loving embrace and endless defense.
00:17:38.000By the way, ain't no problem with being woke.
00:17:41.000Can it influence the way that some teachers teach?
00:18:11.000That is the dumbest man on television.
00:18:14.000I am outraged, and I hope America is too.
00:18:17.000The New York Times recently published an editorial claiming that the reason supporting critical race theory is so important in schools is to ensure that the next generation of Americans can fully appreciate reparations as a policy matter.
00:18:31.000Redistribution of wealth, primarily on race, seems to always be their end zone.
00:18:37.000Americans are waking up and fighting back.
00:18:40.000In Congress, the thought leader on the Republican side is Republican Burgess Owens from Utah.
00:19:02.000That has divided us even more with critical race theory being introduced around the same time.
00:19:08.000We have a community now that lives the American dream, look around this room, and see the middle class that we have developed and more, and yet we tell those who are striving to get where we are that they can't, because white people won't let them.
00:20:34.000The first line of offense against critical race theory has come from America's parents who don't want to see their children raised to hate each other.
00:20:54.000My fear is this type of curriculum will actually breed more racism and more divide in our country rather than unity.
00:21:00.000It saddened me how I have witnessed my own children lose friendships because their friends make assumptions about them.
00:21:09.000They tell them they are privileged because they're white or they are bad people because their dad is a police officer.
00:21:17.000So, so many of my kids' closest and best friends who were basically like family to us and welcomed in our own home have now I totally disregarded my own children.
00:21:29.000And I can see why kids are being forced into this noxious blame game.
00:21:35.000Take a look at some of the CRT instructional materials.
00:21:38.000This was presented in a school district in Iowa.
00:21:46.000Denying racism apparently in any setting is racist.
00:21:49.000What the hell is happening to our country?
00:21:52.000Fortunately, there are real people making the common sense case against critical race theory.
00:21:58.000When you talk about critical race theory, which is pretty much going to be teaching kids how to hate each other, how to dislike each other, that's pretty much what it's going to all come down to.
00:22:09.000You're going to deliberately teach kids, this white kid right here got it better than you because he's white?
00:22:14.000You're going to purposely tell a white kid, oh, the black people are all down and suppressed.
00:22:18.000How do I have two medical degrees if I'm sitting here oppressed?
00:22:21.000How do I get, first of all, shut up, because I only got five minutes now, five minutes.
00:22:35.000What's sickening about this whole thing is what y'all doing right now is already something I do in my community right now to speak out against stuff because black folks are getting told by other black folks.
00:22:44.000You know you ain't gonna be able to do nothing out there in the world because those white folks ain't gonna let you get no...
00:22:47.000You know you're not gonna be able to do it because the white man, the white man gonna keep you down.
00:22:51.000Well, how did I get where I am right now if some white man kept me down?
00:22:55.000How am I now directing over folks that look just like you guys in this room right now?
00:23:25.000If they let this stuff go on right now, it is absolutely doing the complete reverse!
00:23:29.000Like this caring father, many parents are now millennials.
00:23:33.000We embrace the colorblindness advanced so bravely by Dr. King, not the racial identity division inherent in CRT. Take this heartwarming family as another example.
00:23:44.000Daddy teaches you you can be anything in this world that you want to be, right?
00:24:51.000Race defined where you could learn, the teachers you would have, the courses you could take, the duration of your bus ride, the clubs you could join, even the sports you could play.
00:24:59.000Society started by defining people based on race.
00:25:13.000We were taught that race didn't define opportunity.
00:25:16.000A just society must treat everyone equally.
00:25:19.000Race cannot be allowed to limit anyone's access to a lunch counter, a school, a golf course, or a Rhode Island senator's beach club, which is less diverse than a Mayflower reunion.
00:25:30.000Back in 2017, you had expressed concerns about the membership of the all-white Bailey's Beach Club, said that you hoped it would become more diverse.
00:25:37.000Now, your family's been members, your wife is one of the largest shareholders.
00:26:37.000Today's critical race theorists tell us we must revert to the days when all decisions, acts, thoughts, and engagements with one another must be analyzed through the lens of race first, And race alone.
00:26:48.000And that is scary because this is precisely what justified Jim Crow and worse.
00:26:55.000It's no surprise that schools have become the front line of this fight.
00:26:59.000Parents are reacting en masse like this.
00:27:07.000people like me and a line of other people out there who will gladly take your seat and figure it out CRT is racist It is abusive.
00:28:56.000Please get back to just teaching our children math, science, factual history, equity of opportunity, and teaching them how to think and not what to think.
00:29:08.000Parents aren't just yelling and screaming.
00:29:10.000They're also organizing and driving change in state legislatures.
00:29:14.000These states have state-level anti-CRT bills or are considering other changes to the law.
00:29:20.000Go to gates.house.gov and click the CRT Updates tab to review state-based legislation and connect to people pushing bills where you live.
00:29:28.000You can also sign up for our email list which will always have up-to-date alerts on the latest legislative activity.
00:29:35.000While progress is being made against CRT at the state level, nothing good is coming out of the swamp of Washington, D.C., where the Woketopians have a strong foothold and are eager to ingrain their worldview.
00:29:48.000Critical race theorists want a federal department of anti-racism.
00:29:54.000Recently in an article published by Politico, Ibram Kendi declared that to fix the original sin of racism, Americans should pass an anti-racist amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
00:30:05.000Without getting bogged down into Kendi's ignorance of the reconstruction amendments, I want to focus on what is sought after in this new amendment.
00:30:12.000Kendi says the amendment would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-Racism, comprised formerly of trained experts on racism and no political appointees.
00:30:23.000He continues, the Department of Anti-Racism would be responsible for pre-clearing all local, state, and federal public policies to ensure they won't yield racial inequity.
00:30:34.000They would monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies, investigate policies where racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas.
00:30:46.000In other words, this amendment seeks to make a few unelected experts the most powerful body in the United States of America.
00:30:55.000Is the CRT movement already converting all agencies and departments into departments of anti-racism?
00:31:04.000Take the Pentagon, home of the tough guys.
00:31:06.000This was once, like, the last bastion of power in the beltway, not totally under the spell of the political left.
00:32:07.000So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America.
00:33:01.000Like, you know, Secretary Austin, General Milley, trying to swat away Congressman Matt Gaetz.
00:33:08.000And while the chairman of the Joint Chiefs makes an eloquent defense of the truth and stands up for America's military, in battle, Congressman Matt Gaetz lobs a despicable tweet attacking the general, and I quote here, with generals like this, it's no wonder we've fought considerably more wars than we've won.
00:33:30.000General Milley did something very powerful, which is that he cut through the coded speech and language and rhetoric around critical race theory.
00:33:41.000People like Matt Gaetz, you know, making fun of and mocking the military, saying this is the reason that we don't win any more wars with generals like this.
00:33:48.000This is, of course, dangerous, anti-American and racist.
00:33:52.000At West Point, lectures are presented by Dr. Carol Anderson on understanding whiteness and white rage.
00:33:59.000Since I nominate future military officers to West Point as part of my job in Congress, I wanted to know what Dr. Anderson thought about whiteness.
00:34:08.000She wrote that the Republican Party yearns for a white republic, and that the Republican Party platform is white nationalism.
00:34:17.000This is the nonsense that General Milley is defending.
00:34:20.000Instead of Dr. Anderson, we should have instructors who can teach the next generation of commanding officers to win on the modern battlefield, less CRT, more cyber.
00:34:31.000There's nothing wrong with Americans who are white.
00:34:34.000There's nothing wrong with Americans who are black or any other color.
00:34:37.000We must be our brother's keeper, loving our neighbors, regardless of their skin color or our own.
00:34:43.000Only a Benedict Arnold would surrender the Pentagon to the Woketopia without a fight.
00:34:48.000That's why I'm announcing, now, that I'm joining with patriotic colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee and we are introducing legislation within the National Defense Authorization Act to ban critical race theory in our military.
00:35:02.000We will uphold the values expressed by Dr. King.
00:35:05.000We shall live together, work together, worship together, and together weave a strong American tapestry.
00:35:12.000CRT shouldn't be at our military academies.
00:35:15.000It shouldn't be in our officer training.
00:35:17.000It shouldn't be in any diversity training.