Critical Race Theory (CRT) is an explicitly racist ideology. It's anti-white, anti-black, and anti-Asian. It answers the questions I've asked in direct contradiction to the values of most Americans and the organizing principles of our great nation. CRT is everywhere: our military, our education system, corporate America, virtually every aspect of our government, all pushed endlessly by the true enemy of the people, the America Last Press.
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. At least we know that.
00:05:04.000We also know a lot about critical race theory actually.
00:05:07.000And I'm going to take you through the scholarship and the frightening adoption in our own government.
00:05:29.000And I define an anti-racist as someone who is expressing an anti-racist idea or supporting an anti-racist policy.
00:05:38.000So to be anti-racist, all you have to do is be anti-racist. Sounds easy, right?
00:05:44.000No. If you deny that you're racist, that in fact makes you a racist.
00:05:49.000Fundamentally, racism, its heartbeat has always been denied. And the sound of that heartbeat has always been, I'm not racist. To be put, be more specific, the sound of that heartbeat has always been not racist.
00:06:10.000By this standard, behold, America's racist president.
00:06:14.000Corey should apologize. He knows better. There's not a racist bone in my body. I've been involved in civil rights my whole career. Period.
00:06:24.000Joe Biden has the boomer. Period. But what does this all mean? Question mark. If you say you aren't a racist, you are a racist. And the only way to be anti-racist is to admit that you are in fact racist.
00:06:39.000And that is the distinction between a racist and an anti-racist. A racist, no matter what is said about them, no matter how they're charged with being racist, they're always going to deny it.
00:06:52.000While an anti-racist will take these definitions of a racist idea, of a racist policy and of a racist and apply their behavior to it and say, you know what? I was being a racist.
00:07:06.000Ironically, 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.
00:07:30.000It's decided. The more not racist you feel, the closer to a slave trader you become. Bad news for the big guy.
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. After all, only witches deny being witches.
00:07:49.000Throw her in the lake and tie her feet together. If she survives, she's obviously a witch. If 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.
00:08:04.000Sometimes innocent people just act innocent. The 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.
00:08:28.000I have a dream that my four little children will 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 now 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. I have a dream today.
00:08:55.000When 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, ethno-nationalism, otherizing our fellow Americans who don't look like us.
00:09:24.000Dangerous division of the races in our great country. It harkens to a darker time indeed. Separate is not equal, nor preferable, nor American.
00:09:34.000Critical race theorist Gary Peeler reduces these divisive ideas to writing.
00:09:39.000Whatever 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. It 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. They embody the most separatist, harmful ideals of Malcolm X.
00:10:10.000Dr. King wanted us to be colorblind. The 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. It 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.
00:10:40.000CRT is explicitly non-white. Ethno-nationalism. Black nationalism. This is sadly the CRT objective.
00:10:48.000And they're willing to instantly label you a racist if you don't self-execute the smear for them.
00:10:54.000E pluribus unum. Out of many, one. They refuse our vision to make America one nation under God, instead choosing a land of endless grievances.
00:11:06.000In 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. The 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.
00:11:31.000Now, members of the board, I know you haven't been to school in a while.
00:11:34.000And I know most of the people, I know none of you or most of you don't have any kids left in the school district.
00:11:39.000But you must admit how uncomfortable it would 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.
00:11:53.000But 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 worshiping at the altar of the race baiters.
00:12:20.000Donald Trump was having none of it. In 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.
00:12:53.000Materials 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.
00:13:20.000Sadly, 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 hokey campaign video.
00:13:41.000So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount. The 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.
00:14:03.000It'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. Equitable 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.
00:14:24.000Well, that's exactly the point. After 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. All 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.
00:15:08.000Senate Resolution 241 commemorates World Press Freedom Day. Is that racist or anti-racist?
00:15:14.000In South Dakota, it's illegal to fall asleep in a cheese factory. What's the structural racism there?
00:15:21.000In Tennessee, it's illegal to share your Netflix password. I feel like I could make the argument that that is both racist and anti-racist.
00:15:29.000It's not just the bills we vote on. It's the results our people achieve.
00:15:33.000And if there's a disparity between racial groups, it must be because of racist power and policy.
00:15:41.000Critical race theory says every single disparity in outcomes among racial groups is the result of racism.
00:17:06.000There 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.
00:17:32.000But that doesn't stop the America Last Media from giving CRT a loving embrace and endless defense.
00:17:39.000By the way, ain't no problem with being woke.
00:17:41.000Can it influence the way that some teachers teach?
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.
00:19:16.000And yet we tell those who are striving to get where we are that they can't because white people won't let them.
00:19:21.000That, to me, is treacherous. It's traitorous for us to tell others who want the American dream that they can't achieve it because other people with a white skin won't let them do that.
00:19:35.000If you want to repeat a black American community, give us back our history.
00:19:39.000It was Karl Marx who said, the first battleground rewriting of history.
00:19:44.000And that's exactly what's been happening.
00:19:47.000You take away our history, you take away pride in our past, appreciation for our present and a vision for our future.
00:19:52.000And that's what you're seeing in Chicago, Baltimore, Ferguson.
00:19:57.000Every place Democrats oversee a black community is misery.
00:20:02.000And we're going to blame white people?
00:20:06.000How about we take ownership, educate our young people again, give them jobs opportunities again, tell them that the way to get in this country is through free market.
00:20:15.000Allow them to take away the regulations, allow them to run their own businesses.
00:20:18.000Don't burn down their businesses every year because a white police shoots a black person.
00:20:26.000When you have black people, 93% of the thousands of black people being killed are by other black people.
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 or themselves.
00:20:43.000The media tells us that opposition to critical race theory is motivated primarily by opportunist politicians.
00:20:54.000My fear is this type of curriculum will actually breed more racism and more divide in our country rather than unity.
00:21:01.000It 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 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.
00:21:50.000What 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?
00:22:11.000This 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?
00:22:35.000What'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 it.
00:22:41.000Because black folks are getting told by other black folks.
00:22:44.000Oh, you know you ain't going to be able to do nothing out there in the world because them white folks ain't going to let you get nowhere.
00:22:47.000You know you're not going to be able to do it because the white man, the white man going to keep you down.
00:22:52.000Well, 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?
00:26:37.000Today'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.
00:26:49.000And that is scary because this is precisely what justified Jim Crow and worse.
00:26:56.000It's no surprise that schools have become the front line of this fight.
00:27:00.000Parents are reacting en masse like this.
00:28:18.000The school is immersed in this leftist ideology.
00:28:21.000I've noticed a pattern. You treat your bosses, most of us, like children.
00:28:25.000You treat the woke mob, your employees and teachers unions, like the boss.
00:28:28.000And you treat children who have not harmed you like pawns in your leftist social experiment.
00:28:32.000When you give us a timeout for clapping, we hear you saying, Look at me, I am the captain now.
00:28:36.000You're not the captain. We're your bosses. And God willing, we'll return most of you to the private sector very soon.
00:28:41.000You're teaching children to hate others because of their skin color. And you're forcing them to lie about other kids' gender. I am disgusted by your bigotry.
00:28:56.000Please get back to just teaching our children math, science, factual history, equity of opportunity, and teach them how to think and not what to think.
00:29:08.000Parents aren't just yelling and screaming. They'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.
00:29:29.000You 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.,
00:29:43.000where the Woketopians have a strong foothold and are eager to ingrain their worldview.
00:29:49.000Critical race theorists want a federal department of anti-racism.
00:29:53.000Here's how it would work. Recently in an article published by Politico, Ibram Kendi declared that to fix the original sin of racism,
00:30:01.000Americans 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.
00:30:13.000Kendi says the amendment would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-Racism, comprised formally 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.
00:30:47.000In other words, this amendment seeks to make a few unelected experts the most powerful body in the United States of America.
00:30:56.000Is 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.
00:31:07.000This was once like the last bastion of power in the beltway, not totally under the spell of the political left.
00:31:47.000And I think that's a spurious conversation.
00:31:51.000But they are teaching critical race theory in our military.
00:31:56.000This was moments later in the same hearing.
00:31:58.000And it is important that we train and we understand.
00:32:03.000And I want to understand white rage and I'm white and I want to understand it.
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?
00:33:30.000General 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,
00:34:54.000and 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.
00:35:11.000CRT 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.