In recent months, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been exposed as nothing more than the materialistic philosophy of Marxism. CRT substitutes racial antagonism for class antagonism and posits the same ideas traditional Marxism does — that social pathologies are a result of harmful societal conventions and power structures that must be torn down for these ills to be healed. Former U.S. attorney general Bill Barr warned that the “increasingly militant and extreme secular-progressive climate in our state-run educational system was the greatest threat to religious liberty in America.” He cited the public school system’s teaching of transgenderism and homosexuality at all grade levels, one evidence of the psychological and metaphysical dogma of CRT’s newly-packaged progressive orthodoxy.
But nationwide, outraged families in countless school districts — including here in Ventura County — are fighting this vile, destructive curricula in order to protect their children. A broad array of parents around the country are lambasting school boards for their support of CRT. Families of different racial, ethnic, socio-economic and religious backgrounds are confronting and courageously holding to account school board members, administrators and teachers who wish to indoctrinate children with destructive, Marxist-infused ideology.
Recently, New York mother Yaitin Chu, an immigrant from Taiwan and co-president of education advocacy group Place NYC, described being vilified and labeled a “Karen” for speaking out against CRT as an activist. In a recent interview with The Federalist, she lamented “the obsession with race, and the abhorrence of judging people by the color of their skin.” Chu pointed to the ludicrous and offensive labeling of Asians as “white adjacent,” which suggests that Asians achieve to the extent that they emulate “whiteness.”
Chu highlighted the damaging implications for students when a public school AP calculus class on the topic of motion is devoted to the “racism” of NYC subways, and a physics class focuses on the gender and sexuality of Isaac Newton.
Then there is the absolutely jaw-dropping, 10-minute throw-down that New York mother Tatiana Ilbrahim performed on her kids’ school district. Ilbrahim utterly blasted school district leaders for “demoralizing” children, “teaching them communist values,” undermining families’ religious beliefs, and encouraging hatred of and violence towards police officers. The most forceful and courageous moment came when she promised the school board she would become their “worst nightmare.” This indeed presents an effective approach for similarly appalled and enraged parents in school districts across the fruited plain.
Locally, in our own Conejo Valley, a group of very concerned parents and citizens recently formed Raising Awareness of Childhood Education, R.A.C.E., to fight the charlatans pushing CRT in Ventura County. R.A.C.E. hosted its first meeting in late June hoping for 50 people to show up. But more than 200 eager parents and citizens packed the venue to standing room only. Speakers included teachers, journalists and very well-informed and passionate individuals who know first-hand what’s going on in the county. The collective enthusiasm was inspiring and greatly encouraging for the future. Many parents in Ventura County clearly understand that CRT is a poisonous ideology imperiling their children’s education and well-being, not to mention the preservation of a free society.
CRT’s agenda quickly becomes personal when parents of young children discover what’s inside. Rather than backing down, more parents are rising up to stamp out this vile curriculum, banishing Marxist ideology from our schools. They recognize it, rightly, as an intellectually packaged form of child abuse.
One more bit of good news from the national front: leading CRT critic Christopher Rufo was viciously attacked by the New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic and MSNBC. Guess what? The Post had to retract their lying statements about Rufo. Other media are sure to follow, or be warned that their smears won’t stand up to public — and legal — scrutiny.
Meanwhile, state legislatures are banning CRT from schools across the country. Already, Arizona, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, Iowa and Idaho have acted to protect their collective 75 million citizens from state-sanctioned racism. In these states, public schools can no longer promote the principles of collective guilt, race essentialism and racial superiority theory. Parents now hold greater power over what their children are taught in public and private schools.
Having racked up concrete victories in nine states, members of this volunteer, parent-driven movement know it is just the beginning. If we don’t step up to save our children from being indoctrinated, our schools certainly won’t, and a generation — and a country — would be lost. That’s why parents and freedom-loving citizens here in Ventura County and beyond are in this fight to win it.
We won’t stop until hateful Marxist agendas are eradicated from our schools. That’s a cause worth fighting for.
Thank you Catherine.
Your article reminded me of the left’s continuous attempts to bring us down to a low point of civilization. There’s absolutely no reason for critical race theory, CRT or as I think of it communist radicalization techniques.
Attempting to split people into groups for political purposes is the lowest of the low. We are all one race the human race; if you wanted to talk about different species that’s another matter. But I’m amazed at the persistence of these attacks on civility, which goes against our conservative, patriotic and freedom loving American attitude.
All of that started in the name of Fabian socialism, which was an attempt to split workers into classes based on the darker aspects of capitalism: paying low wages and union busting. But over the years that paradigm has faded. America has tasted wealth beyond all imagination, and success is possible for anyone who truly desires it and will work for his or her freedom.
Of course in Europe that’s a different story; there are too many rules and regulations holding back the individualistic entrepreneur. In the United States of America, whether we know it or not, most of us are rational, logical and patriotic sovereign citizens. In that regard what you wrote about concerning the 200 standing room only citizens complaining that the leftists among us are in effect trying to bring Americans down to the depths of divisive cynicism. Strong and sovereign American citizens will not allow these rabble-rousers to split us up with outdated socialist theories.
With the power of the VOTE we can expunge these leftists wherever they pop their head up into the clear air of freedom. Any venue will do including: town hall meetings, school board committees, citizen gathering on street corners or journalistic endeavors that will spread the public’s conservative opinion. America is our country; let’s defend it with everything we have in our arsenal of the intellect.
This is the biggest load of crap. Stop printing your lies. It’s shameful and destructive. All you do is try to tear down democracy. I suggest you go live in Russia, where your ideas will be more welcome. Why are you delivering your crappy disinformation to local homes? We don’t read it, and I wonder who is supporting this propaganda.