The Surprising Way Critical Race Theory May Actually Save America
Have Democrats finally Jumped the Shark? Shocking new polling data surrounding Critical Race Theory leads Charlie to believe that may be the case. He walks through the timeline of CRT Awareness in America, the rise and fall of the left's embrace of its racist & ahistorical teachings, and why the fight is more winnable now than every before. This episode is a comprehensive update on a battle plan we laid out on The Charlie Kirk Show over a year ago—it goes through where we stood then, where we stood now, and explains why the time to go on offense for our children's future—and indeed, the future of the republic—is right now. Give this important episode a listen, use it as a resource, and join the winnable fight against the radical racist left in America todaySupport the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Democrats Hand Republicans A Gift00:06:22
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The Democrats gave us a gift.
It's time to recognize it, explain it and talk about what we can do about it.
Buckle up everybody.
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What if I told you the Democrats decided to give a gift to America?
What if I told you that the Democrats, while they controlled almost everything, they decided to do something that was handing up to Republicans and conservatives a gift politically that would allow us to organize, that would allow us to have unified messaging, that would bring together the different components of our movement and our party.
You see, issues in off-election years, such as 2017 and 2021, especially for the party that does not occupy the White House, they are historically very difficult.
For the Democrats in 2017, of course, they were already calling for Trump's impeachment minutes after he took the oath of office.
They then went to the Mueller investigation and they made Russia and immigration, kids in cages, their number one issue.
And these issues in election years, they tend to be somewhat forced or very reactionary.
Political parties always have to try to find something to rally their activists and their donors and to try to win back the narrative.
Now, let's go back six months ago or five months ago.
Five months ago, on January 21st, Joe Biden had just took the oath of office.
Five months ago, Joe Biden became president.
Joe Biden was signing a series of executive orders, and it felt like we were going to be on defense for the foreseeable future.
Also, an impeachment was looming against President Donald Trump for something he did not do and for an event that is becoming increasingly murky as to what actually happened on January the 6th.
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Five months ago, the conservative movement was not really sure how to proceed.
There were fights amongst Liz Cheney and the Trump base of the party.
But a dozen Republicans decided to impeach Donald Trump in the House in the quickest impeachment ever in American history.
Democrats already controlled almost every single major cultural institution, and they still control many of these.
Media, government, education, economy, family, religion, arts, and entertainment.
They monopolized almost everything.
We had Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game from Georgia to Denver.
Doubling Down On Misguided Ideas00:06:31
We had massive corporations such as Coca-Cola teaching all of their employees that why all white people are racist.
We had churches that were aligning with the Biden agenda.
It seemed as if we couldn't get any form of momentum.
We couldn't get out of our own way.
But then the Democrats decided to give us a gift.
In what could only be described as a risky or dicing, dicey strategy, Democrats decided to go all in and double and triple down on their implementation of a extremely radical, unproven, once obscure and fringe academic theory.
This is what the brilliance of all this is.
In reaction to how much they hated Donald Trump, the fringe part of the leftist, collectivist, let's just say, aspect of the Democrat Party started to be given a bigger and bigger platform.
In schools and colleges across the country, we started to see these three words start to pop up more, and we've experienced this a lot at Turning Point USA, critical race theory.
Critical race theory started to become the norm, especially after the death of George Floyd.
Now, we've gone into a great deal about how George Floyd was a criminal, about how George Floyd likely overdosed.
Derek Chauvin was convicted by a jury of his peers, and I tend to trust a system that allows a jury of one peers to make a decision.
With that being said, that might be overturned because of Maxine Waters' public pressure, the non-sequestration of that jury.
And also, the judge himself said this might actually be overturned on appeal.
But after George Floyd, it seemed as if anything that dealt with race, especially that was anti-white, was given an unprecedented platform in our country.
These three words, critical race theory, a year ago, was probably known by less than 1% of the American population.
If I would have told you critical race theory, you'd say, what's that?
And I would have to go into some sort of academic, meandering explanation about how critical race theory, its latest manifestation, is privilege walks, white privilege, the overemphasis on race.
And you'd say, yeah, okay, I sort of get that, but it's not really anywhere.
Now, critical race theory, I believe, is known by well over 75% of the informed and engaged electorate in our country.
You see, the Democrats and the left and the academics and the collectivists and the statists handed a wedge issue to us that favors conservatives.
Now, it's a very dangerous track that we're on right now because we're not going to win everywhere.
We're not going to be able to get this removed from every single public education system, every single institution.
Certain areas, like the Chicago Teacher Union or the LA Unified School District, they are going to continue to have critical race theory implemented.
And because of that, they're going to create the most racist generation since Jim Crow.
However, we can win almost everywhere else.
You see, the Democrats, because they think they control everything, which is partially true, they say we now need the latest, most radical, postmodern idea imaginable.
Ah, not that we should judge people based on skin color or their spirit.
The leftists basically playing into their inner Hegelian dialectic, they say, I see.
What we need is to judge people based on how they look, because that's progress.
This sort of strategy has all of a sudden had an opposite reaction that is organic, authentic, robust, grassroots.
It is not coordinated in some ways.
It's bigger and more powerful than the Tea Party movement back in 2010.
And the Democrats gave this gift to America because they decided to double and triple down on something they don't really understand.
We're going to go through again as a recap: what is critical race theory?
Where did it come from?
And then I'm going to show you some of the polling.
I'm going to show you how this has now become a top-tier issue for voters on how the Virginia governor's race is a tie thanks to critical race theory being implemented in Loudoun public schools.
You see, the Democrats did exactly what we predicted they would do here on this program.
They overshot their target.
They went too big.
They decided not to be disciplined.
They got greedy.
And with it, they elevated pseudo-academics who are real racists, like Nicole Hannah Jones and Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo to teach your children.
What they didn't anticipate is the moms and dads fighting back.
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Where would we be if the Democrats were not power-hungry, greedy, undisciplined activists that try to push forward ideas that are very unpopular and then double and tripling them down on them and then calling you a racist if you dare oppose them?
The Danger Of Postmodern Truths00:04:03
I think we'd be in a tough spot.
You see, back in the 1970s and 80s, the conservative movement was a coalition.
It was a coalition built on widespread agreement that the Soviet Union was evil and that communism was not the answer.
You had libertarians playing nicely with neoconservatives, playing nicely with movement conservatives, and a lot of their differences were not always clear because everyone hated the Soviet Union.
Now, in a year where a lot of this robust disagreement was supposed to be taking place, I actually would enjoy it just from a personal entertainment level, but it's actually not that good for the movement.
We have now been given this incredible coalition builder.
And that coalition builder is this fringe theory that all of a sudden people are asking more and more questions about.
Now, on our program, we were one of the first programs to walk through methodically what is critical race theory.
You can actually go back, you can go to charliekirk.com.
We're going to try to repost this episode.
We had Peter Bogosian and James Lindsay on our podcast in June of last year, before they were the cool kids on this topic.
Before his book, Cynical Theories, which I encourage all of you to check out, How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity, sold well over 100,000 copies in just the last year.
We saw where this was headed because we've been fighting against critical race theory for quite some time on our university campuses and in our high schools.
And the Democrats already controlling every major cultural institution, they weren't able to resist the temptation to then implement the next wrinkle, the next variation in their attempted remaking or revolution of the American Republic.
So let's go through what critical race theory is.
Critical race theory stems from critical theory.
Critical theory is an idea from a man by the name of Herbert Makusa.
He came from the Frankfurt School.
He was kicked out because he was a Marxist and landed in America.
In America, he came up with this idea of critical theory, which it literally is in the name.
It criticizes pre-existing power structures and it's an extension of postmodernism.
Now, not everything in postmodernism is necessarily untrue, but after you get through the 5% of things that they say that are true, the 95% of garbage ends up leads you to a place of repulsion and hopefully vehement opposition.
Postmodernism is a way of looking at the world.
It's this idea that once we were in antiquity, then we were in modernity, and now we will enter postmodern America or the postmodern world.
There's no correct way to view the world is one of the things that postmodernists believe.
They believe in frame theory.
Frame theory is a belief that anything can be anything.
This is a direct affront and at odds with Aristotle and his belief of the law of identity.
Who's to say that that pencil is a pencil?
Who's to say that that book is a book?
In fact, I would make an argument, it is at war with who we are as human beings.
You see, if you tell a person to go into a room and you say, hey, go grab me a pencil, they might have never seen that pencil before, but they'd be easily able to identify it.
Why?
That is called the common noun miracle.
The common noun miracle is how we're able to categorize and organize things into groups or into pre-existing descriptions despite never seeing those things before.
You might walk into a restaurant and might have a certain type of a coffee cup you've never seen before, but you know it's a coffee cup.
That is a unique human attribute.
Frame theory is at direct odds with this very simple revelation that the Greeks and the classics gave us, which is known as the common noun miracle, hat tip to Larry Arne, who taught me that from the Great Hillsdale College.
Frame theory and the idea of postmodern America is this, you have your own truth.
Common Nouns And Critical Race Theory00:11:56
I want to speak my own truth now.
Not all of that is necessarily total garbage.
There is something to understanding someone's personal narrative.
But when you take it to its furthest logical extension of criticizing everything that came before you, progress for progress sake, then you get the latest variation of German historicism known as progressivism.
And the danger of postmodernism, which is what we're dealing with right now in its latest kind of very evil spawn, is that critical race theory is at direct war with the positive attributes of the West and of America.
What if I told you that this is now the one thing America can agree on?
America can't agree on Major League Baseball, NBA, can't agree on even whether or not we should fly flags on July 4th.
But the one thing that we can agree on, it's a majority popular issue, is that what the Democrats believe is awful.
Thank you, Democrats.
So the Democrats have given us a gift.
They've given us a gift where they've decided to go all in at a moment where they seem to be winning.
But this is a common pattern of totalitarian tyrants.
Napoleon didn't have to try to go get Russia.
When conquerors go too far, like Alexander the Great to India, things tend to fall apart.
The same is happening here.
Japan did not have to bomb Pearl Harbor.
When empires or people with power push their boundaries a little bit too much, decent people are then given an opportunity to push back.
So as we've been walking through what critical race theory is, I want to reinforce how unpopular it is.
You can't get Americans to agree on anything right now.
What if I told you a new economist, YouGovPoll, found opposition of critical race theory amongst just people in the middle, 58%.
58% of Americans oppose critical race theory.
Now, I'm not going to take credit for anything, but I will say that this program, we played a role in getting the word out against critical race theory early and often.
Credit to Christopher Ruffo.
Credit to James Lindsay.
Credit to Helen Pluckrose.
Credit to Candace Owens.
And credit to our amazing team here on the Charlie Kirk Show in Turning Point USA, because we have dedicated dozens of hours of programming to opposing critical race theory.
Then, credit to you.
For all of you right now, maybe you're driving in beautiful Scottsdale, Arizona, where it's 122 degrees already at 9:37 in the morning, and maybe you just told your friends about how evil critical race theory is.
Good for you.
Because the polling is showing this is a winning issue, not just a little bit, but a lot.
In fact, only 25% of the country has a very favorable view of critical race theory.
25%.
And so, let's go through why it is so negative.
Let's go through why the public approval is where it is.
And I also want to play you some of the reaction from some of the pundits that think that critical race theory is just the greatest thing ever.
So, here are eight characteristics of critical race theory, written by my friend James Lindsay, who's a frequent guest on this program and our podcast.
Number one, critical race theory believes that racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction, and therefore has its advocates look for it everywhere.
Now, before I go any further, for those of you that think this is a fringe idea that has still not hit your hometown, it probably has.
You have to just look for it.
It's in our military, too, by the way.
Our United States military, they are requiring our military members to read how to be an anti-racist.
If you want to become a general in the United States military, you have to read How to Become an Anti-Racist by Robin D'Angelo.
So, here are the eight things, and maybe you're driving and you need to pull over and write these down.
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Again, racism is present everywhere, every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction, and therefore its advocates have to look for it everywhere.
You hear that, those of you in Fargo, North Dakota?
Even though you might live very quiet and decent and peaceable lives, everything you do if you're a white person is inherently racist.
Number two, critical race theory believes on interest convergence, otherwise known as intersectionality.
Quote, white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their own interest.
Therefore, don't trust any attempt to make racism better by white people.
So, for example, the critical race theorists think that the 400,000, find the exact number, 300,000 white people that died in the American Civil War to free the slaves, that was them being very selfish.
The critical race theorists think that the white people that fought for the union cause, that died for something greater than themselves, they were, quote, in interest convergence because critical 360,222, that's not too bad that I pulled it from my hat right there.
The 360,222 people that died for the union cause in the American Civil War, they were only acting in their own interest.
Therefore, don't trust any attempts to make racism better.
Number three, critical race theory believes, and they are firm about this, that any free society is the problem and they want to dismantle them and replace them with something its advocates control.
This is against free societies, free markets, private property, discourse, and dialogue.
I'll get to that in a second.
Critical race theory only treats race issues as socially constructed groups.
So there are no individuals.
You are not made in the image of God.
You're a member of your tribe.
You are not your own person with your own consciousness, dreams, ambition.
Be held accountable with your own development of your character.
No, you are a member of how you look.
The jersey that you wear in the game of critical race theory is your skin color.
And that's what matters.
Not whether or not you have a developed soul, a spirit that needs to be saved by our Lord and Savior, or a character that needs to be improved upon.
No, what matters is how you look.
See, critical race theory, which is being taught to so many children across the country, cares about things you cannot change.
What has made America and the West different and exceptional is we have always focused on things you can change.
A moral country tries to put a focus on things you can better and develop and improve, not on things you cannot improve.
So number five, believe science, reason, and evidence are white.
And they're only used as a way of knowing that storytelling and lived experiences are a black alternative, which hurt everyone, especially black people.
You hear that?
Science, reason, and evidence.
Science and the scientific method is not any sort of skin color or any sort of racial identity.
We know this.
I would love the critical race theorists to explain George Washington Carver.
That's right, George Washington Carver, a black scientist, one of the greatest men ever to live.
I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich the other day, and it was really good.
I have not had one in so long.
And I have to say, we've all been sold a packet of lies.
The fact that peanut butter and jelly is not part of our steady diet as humans.
I'm telling you, it's a very serious thing.
My wife Erica had to hear this whole speech about how much I think, I think we've just been deceived.
Anyway, George Washington Carver, a black man who was a scientist.
I'd love to have them figure that one out.
But no, they think that science and reason are white, and they want to abolish science and reason, which is exactly why the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, they are funding organizations that teach black kids that two plus two equals five.
Nothing is objective in the eyes of the critical race theorists.
Critical race theorists also reject all possible alternatives like colorblindness as forms of racism, making itself the only allowable game in town.
This is totalitarian in nature.
They will destroy you if you dare disagree with them.
Critical race theory also believes that anyone who disagree with them must do for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if those people are black, which is also totalitarian.
And finally, critical race theory cannot be satisfied.
So it becomes a kind of activist black hole that threatens to destroy everything it is introduced to.
That is the most important one that I want to segue into.
Critical race theory cannot ever be satisfied.
Critical race theory has an insatiable appetite, almost like a parasitic virus, to deconstruct.
What if I told you that it is a sister, a partner, or a cousin to an academic theory called deconstructionism?
Deconstructionism is a part of the academic canon of the secular university.
Cannot be satisfied, so it becomes a kind of activist black hole.
Well, critical race theory needs to poison your prior adoration of your country, history, and tradition.
Let me say that again.
Critical race theory needs to poison your previous love of your nation.
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Okay, George Washington Carver, according to the national peanut board.org, seems to be an authority figure on peanuts, was known as the peanut innovator and entrepreneur.
He published, quote, how to grow the peanut and 105 ways of preparing it for human consumption.
So he didn't invent the peanut.
I just want to make sure I'm very clear.
But he was basically the Leonardo da Vinci of the peanut, okay?
The Leonardo da Vinci to the helicopter is George Washington Carver to the peanut.
The Wright brothers to aerial flight is George Washington Carver to the peanut.
Do I have to keep on going?
Henry Ford to the assembly line is George Washington Carver to the peanut.
Okay, but they don't teach about George Washington Carver anymore in schools.
Peace Interrupted By Political Agenda00:14:23
Instead, they teach you about Nicole Hanna-Jones and whatever.
And so I know how the critical race theorists and the arsonists who call themselves leftists, I know how they operate.
And so I'm onto them.
And I know that one of the things I have to do is to try to delegitimize history and try to undercut the positive, the positive tradition of loving one's country or one's home.
And so last week, we came out, I would say out of a 10, out of 10, we were at 10 on this idea of Juneteenth.
We did so rationally and factually.
And Candace Owens did as well.
Now, we were definitely in, let's say, the minority opinion, but not anymore.
I do have to say, if you look at just the Overton window and the Zeitgeist, all of a sudden people are speaking out.
Now, I came out about Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday.
Obviously, I support the essence of the original day of Juneteenth.
That's nowhere near did I question it.
Nowhere near, none of my commentary did I say that.
That's a sloppy and quite honestly, intentionally misleading tactic by people that do not want to actually take us at the merits of our concern.
And our concern actually ended up being true.
Our concern is that certain cities will start canceling July 4th and embracing Juneteenth.
Oh, what do you know?
For all my friends on AM560, the answer, we were proven to be correct.
The city of Evanston, Illinois, located just north of Chicago, joined committees, communities across the United States by celebrating in-person Juneteenth parade, but have canceled July 4th and the nation's Independence Day parade.
So Juneteenth now takes precedence over July 4th.
That is precisely what we predicted on this program.
We said that if you give the activists and you give them a competitor July 4th, celebrities and corporations will start to turn a back on the moral, colorless, transcendent celebration of July 4th and will start focus on a black-centered racial political day like June 19th.
And this is all part of the playbook of critical race theory.
Remember what I said at the back, at the bottom of the list, number eight, is that critical race theorists cannot be satisfied.
So it becomes an activist kind of black hole that threatens to destroy everything it's introduced to, including your traditions and July 4th.
What if I told you an op-ed written over the weekend, as we predicted they're going to try to go after the American flag?
America needs a new flag that all of us can honor by Macy Gray.
No idea who that is.
She's allegedly some sort of singer, big enough where it's a Grammy award-winning R ⁇ B soul singer, singer, songwriter.
Her song, I try, was a number one single.
So I guess she's a one-hit wonder.
Is that what she's known for?
And she said the American flag is old glory, which is akin to the Confederate battle flag.
And we need a new flag because she said it's a symbol of white supremacy, as we predicted.
Corporation after corporation tweeted and sent out emails saying that our history is broken.
In fact, hashtag Juneteenth was the Marxist clenched fist with the Pan-African flag symbol within it.
Elon Omar tweeted out, proud Juneteenth is now a federal holiday.
As we reflect on the significance of what this day symbolizes, let's keep fighting to address the lasting consequences of slavery.
Next step, reparations.
You see, the entire idea of the Hegelian dialectic is small, incremental steps of progress to an inevitable goal.
One of those was creating a summertime competitor to July 4th.
One of those was trying to institutionalize via a federal holiday where we all talk about race all day long, not talk about transcendent and eternal and divine truths like we used to do on July 4th.
Critical race theory is a gift from the Democrats to those of us that want to actually build a robust counterpolitical movement to the statism and the tyranny that we are living under right now.
Critical race theory, the eight attributes of critical race theory we went through.
The basic is this.
They care about focusing on your skin color.
They do not think you're an individual.
They think you're a member of your tribe.
They do not believe in science or reason or math.
They are generally authoritarian in nature because if you do not hold their views, then they will call you a racist, which is their new tactic that they do right now.
So how are the people in kind of the Democrat intelligentsia responding to this?
Well, they're only about four months late.
Now, before I get to this, I have to say there are dozens and dozens and dozens of videos we get sent every single week at freedom at charliekirk.com of parents that are showing up to school board meetings across the country to recall members of the school board because of their embrace of critical race theory.
My buddy Scott Hennan, who runs the Flag Network, texted me, FYI, a well-organized group of Fargo moms who are wary of the COVID rules, are gathering signatures to recall four Fargo school members, school board members, including one who is a mass crazy pediatrician and one who's a supporter of critical race theory.
That's a good lesson for everyone out there, by the way, is that if you see this implemented in your school, you must show up and do something about it.
So now this has all of a sudden been being met with a massive deluge of op-eds, of cable news segments saying that this is somehow a far right-wing movement.
The polling shows this is a this is way deeper and more sophisticated than just a political reaction.
This is a cultural reaction.
Let's go to cut number six.
NBC reporter Ben Collins baselessly and without any sort of evidence says that this might seem like a grassroots movement, but it's really being funded by large dark money organizations to push new lines of thought.
Pure gaslighting.
Play six.
You might think this is a grassroots movement.
You might think that suddenly everyone's rising up against what they all know about critical race theory and are against critical race theory.
However, it's not really actually like that.
There are a bunch of dark money groups that are pushing new lines of thought.
So he's trying to say, oh, this is an astroturf movement.
So all these moms that are showing up, do we have the, actually, yeah, this one right here.
So according to Ben Collins, cut seven, this nine-year-old student who calls out, quote, no politics or BLM in schools, hypocrisy at a PTA meeting, according to Ben Collins, the NBC reporter, this nine-year-old speaking out against critical race theory is being paid by some sort of dark money group when in reality, they're the dark money groups.
BLM Incorporated is a dark money group.
The teacher unions are a dark money group.
How about the Center for Technology and Civic Life, Mark Zuckerberg's $400 million takeover of American elections?
Those are dark money groups.
According to NBC, this nine-year-old who stuns everyone with public comment is a paid actor.
Cut seven.
I was told two weeks ago at this very meeting spot, no politics in school.
I believed what you said at this meeting.
So at lunch, I went up to my principal to tell him about the BLM poster and that I wanted it down.
He said it's not coming down.
I was like, yeah, it is because the school board said on May 25th, no BLM or politics in school.
He said, that's weird.
When I was here two weeks ago, you told us to report any BLM in our schools.
Apparently, you know, they're in our schools because you made the signs.
Calling out the school board members to their face.
Does this seem like a political movement that anyone has ever experienced before?
I haven't.
This is something that is non-orchestrated.
It is robust.
It is spontaneous.
It's exciting.
And at times, it could be a little messy.
Producer Connor and I went to the Chandler Unified School District and I spoke there two weeks ago.
And everyone kind of has their own thing.
You have the anti-vaccine people.
You have the hydroxychloroquine people.
You have the mask people, the critical race theory people.
The, you know, you cut me off when I was trying to exit the school by picking up my kid from swim practice people.
But it's kind of this amazing kind of gathering point and organizing around citizens that want to retake their country.
And in the 1970s and 80s, conservatives and people on the center and the center right of America were able to agree the Soviet Union was garbage.
I'm telling you right now, critical race theory and its almost religious implementation in America is the new metaphorical Soviet Union that is being pushed into school boards across the country.
This is not going away anytime soon.
Let's play part two of this nine-year-old speaking.
Play cut two.
I said there should be no BLM in schools, period.
Does not matter the color you make the posters and the font you use.
We all understand the meaning.
It is a political message about getting rid of police officers, rioting, burning buildings down while King Governor Walch just sits on his throne and watches.
We all know changing the font or the color of posters does not change the meaning.
I am nine years old and I know that.
I think that's in Minnesota, if it's Governor Waltz, if I'm not mistaken.
That's a nine-year-old going to school board meetings and speaking out.
And there are hundreds of parents that are doing this across the country.
And if you are listening to this, you should show up to a school board meeting near you as well, because they're probably putting forth this racist ideology of critical race theory.
And what's amazing is the Democrats gave this to us.
It's awfully perplexing, isn't it?
That they would decide to not just implement this, but defend it.
Listen to some of their apparatchiks on television trying to defend critical race theory.
Let's play cut one of Don Laman defending the new KKK, cut one.
That's your idea of, that's the whole thing about what privilege is, is that people don't like to have their pleasure interrupted, their peace interrupted.
And so people think that it should be the way that it should be because they have been taught that in this country.
Huh.
Don't like to have your peace interrupted.
Does Don Lamond ever tell his audience that he has a multi-million dollar SAG harbor home while he gets to have his peace interrupted when he gets to lecture the rest of the country at his show that has less viewers than the cooking channel?
The cooking channel actually has more viewers than CNN.
I'm half kidding.
I don't know the cooking channel's ratings, but I bet they're competitive and far more entertaining.
So Don Lamond says that, well, how would you, you don't want your peace interrupted when he's talking about critical race theory.
But this has now got to a point where the reaction is something that is now manifesting itself in what Aristotle called the highest form of community, which combines morality and sociability, politics.
And the Democrats don't really know how to react to this.
They're saying, oh, this is an astroturf movement, or you guys are white fragile, as Robin D'Angelo would say.
But this is a multi-racial backlash against this.
In fact, it is critical race theory is at direct odds with the small L-liberal tradition of so many of these institutions across the country.
I want you to see this cut 16, where white people are pledging themselves to be part of the woke mob.
About racism, anti-blackness, or violence.
About racism and black violence.
I will use my voice in the most uplifting way possible.
I will raise my voice and do everything in my power to educate my community.
And to reverse my power to educate my community.
That's creepy.
And it's a religion.
Cornell Belcher, whoever that is, says that critical race theory is not grassroots.
It's organized and it's being paid for.
It's manufactured.
And then sort of the fire was lit, Chuck Todd said.
You know what?
Chuck Todd is not actually wrong.
It is manufactured.
It was manufactured by academics who couldn't sit still when they controlled everything.
And they went too far.
And the reaction is robust.
The Trump political movement or the conservative movement was at risk, was at risk of becoming adrift, aimless, directionless, not able to really find something to focus on.
Now, someone who I know, I actually spent time with her.
She's a reporter for NBC.
She's doing a story on Candace, and Candace and her got in a very heated discussion that was at Stanford University at one of our Turning Point USA tours.
That was like three years ago.
This woman by the name of Brandy Zadrozny, she, on the surface, says something that she thinks is a criticism to try to get all the MSNBC people fired up.
But she says something completely and totally true.
And she says that the push against critical race theory is a continuation of the America first agenda of Trump.
Teaching History Correctly Or Politically00:03:21
She's exactly right.
Is that the Trump movement was at risk of not really knowing what to do with itself?
Now, all of a sudden, you have people that even might have voted for Joe Biden, but that energy of citizens peacefully retaking their government and retaking terrain from a rotten and entrenched and uninterested ruling class, it's now happening in school boards.
It's now happening where the education of your children is taking place.
Play cut five of Brandy Zadrozny.
Onerous FOIA requests, school board meetings being showing up en masse and yelling at school board members.
All of this is sort of a tactic and it's being left up on by national organizations from the Heritage Foundation to ALEC to other groups that have popped up after the Trump presidency to sort of push this American first agenda.
Now, she meant that as an accusation, saying that this is overly politicized.
But she is right.
She's right that this political movement really wouldn't know what to do with itself.
And remember, five months ago, after January 6th, after the impeachment, Joe Biden becomes president.
There was kind of this idea of what do we do next?
Well, the what we do next was a gift given, transferred to us by the Democrats, where all of a sudden we have action items.
We got bullet points.
We got stuff to do.
And that stuff to do is replace that school board member.
What's my child learning?
Where are my tax dollars going?
What textbook is that?
Why are they wearing a mask?
No to vaccine mandates.
All of a sudden, it has created, it strengthened the activist muscles of the conservative movement, unlike anything I've ever seen before.
Because for the first time in a long time, it's more than just, hey, go make a sign and let's wave it on the street corner at Saturday at 10 a.m.
Now it's no.
You show up to this meeting.
You challenge a powerful person right to their face.
You look at them in the eyes and you say, I will not have my child be taught this racist KKK ideology.
Cut two, Harris Faulkner calls out a Democrat surrogate for saying that critical race theory is, quote, acknowledging our history.
I'm going to go through this to just so happen to love American history and spend many, many hours of my day trying to better understand it by some of the great teachers of the world from Hillsdale College and Dr. Larry Arn.
But this apparatchik, a very angry person, a craven person, quite honestly, gets absolutely called out by Harris Faulkner.
Play tape.
And what is critical race theory?
It's acknowledging our history, not just slavery, which, of course, we're acknowledging today.
Aren't we already doing that in our schools, though?
Do you think black kids don't know the history and they think?
I think we've got to teach redlining.
We've got to teach about the Tulsa race massacre.
We've got to teach about how our health systems have different impacts.
And Harris Faulkner was basically saying, don't you think my black kids know their history?
And this Democrat surrogate, this is something you hear a lot, is, oh, well, we have to go teach our history correctly.
Well, first of all, you can't actually, you have to decide how you want to teach history.
You should obviously teach it fairly and you should teach it truthfully.
But also, you have to come to the you have to come to the moment where you say, what kind of country do we want to be?
Founding America Without Systemic Racism00:06:21
Why are we here?
Are we here to just pick apart everything we've ever done wrong and reinforce that and make that the super narrative?
Or maybe we in context say the things that went wrong.
We judge people based on the generation of that which they were in, which I will use a quote from the Bible about Noah.
Those of you that have listened to a lot of our podcasts, you've heard that before, but I think it's very important.
And is there an arc?
Is there an arc of heroism of the American story, improving oneself and going towards the good?
That should be taught.
Because I can tell you right now that most young people that I encounter on college campuses, they don't know Alexander Hamilton from James Madison.
They don't know Thomas Jefferson from George Washington.
They don't know John Jay from Roger Williams to hopefully not John C. Calhoun.
Well, they actually probably are learning about John C. Calhoun in a way they might not understand.
I'm going to read from Christopher Ruffo's website: Critical Race Theories and Academic Discipline that holds the United States as a nation founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these are still at the root of our society.
Okay, let's stop there.
This is something that you're going to hear repeated time and time again, where they say, well, don't we want to teach our children that we were founded on white supremacy and oppression?
Well, we weren't.
Nine of the American colonies had completely abolished slavery by the time the Constitution was ratified in 1787, in September of 1787.
Vermont abolished slavery right after the Declaration of Independence.
The first ever anti-slavery convention was hosted in 1775 in Philadelphia.
The first in the world, by the way, with Benjamin Franklin overseeing it.
In the Declaration of Independence, the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, in his own handwriting, blames King George for bringing slaves to the United States, for bringing the sin of slaves to the United States.
In extensive private journals, Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is bad for the slave and the owner.
Thomas Jefferson was advocating for the abolition of slavery in the Virginia House of Commons.
Thomas Jefferson, in 1807, as one of his first acts of president in March 2nd, I want to say, 1807, signed into law the abolition of the importation of new slaves into the United States.
John Adams was an anti-slavery president.
George Washington freed his slaves right before his death.
The question should not be whether or not we had slaves.
The question should be: did they realize it was wrong and why and what did they do about it?
You see, decoupling and untangling oneself from a multi-thousand-year evil practice is not easy.
By the way, slavery is still alive and well in our world right now.
It's alive and well in the Horn of Africa.
It's alive and well in many Muslim countries across the world.
They contest that our nation was founded on white supremacy and oppression, and that these forces are still at the root of our society.
If America was systemically racist and we were founded on oppression, why is it that the Northwest Territories, which was larger than the nine of the U.S. colonies combined, in Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance, which I encourage all of you in your free time to go check out the Northwest Ordinance, why was that free territory?
The Ohio River became the boundary line between free and slave state.
The Civil War was about a lot of things.
It was around tariffs, economics.
It was around slavery as well.
If America was such a racist country, why did 366,000 white people die for the freedom of blacks?
Now, that is considered a thought crime, Charlie.
You can't say that.
Well, it's true.
And I'm going to say it again.
Why did 366,000 white people die for the freedoms of blacks?
Would a racist country do something like that?
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, I believe, in 1863 or one.
I get my ears mixed up.
I think it was November 22nd, if I'm not mistaken.
Saying the slaves are free.
John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams, was one of the most outspoken abolitionists in American history.
In fact, so much so, the House adopted the Adams rule, saying that you were not allowed to introduce a bill into Congress more than once.
September 22nd, 1862.
Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
That was off a little bit, but I was in the general season.
John Quincy Adams was such a fierce abolitionist.
He was our sixth president, either six or seven.
It was Quincy Adams and Jackson and Van Buren, if not mistaken.
Quincy Adams served one term and then became a member of Congress just to try to abolish slavery.
Inspired Thaddeus Stevens and inspired the abolitionist movement that led to the surprise election of Abraham Lincoln.
And guess what?
Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election on an anti-slavery campaign.
Do you know what party he ran for?
He ran as a Republican.
A Republican meant back then, abolitionist slavery.
We're going to abolish slavery and then we'll figure out the rest.
And dare I say the obvious, which people mock you when you say this, but it is a rather good argument.
So I'm going to say it loudly and clearly.
Twice we elected a black president.
That's a big deal.
So don't give me this.
If America was so oppressed, how did a black person become president?
Those are still at the root of our society today.
This is a massive psychological campaign to try to have people think of themselves in a system of victimhood, not in one where they can make better choices and climb the ladder to flourishing and success.
Creating A Culture Of Victimhood00:08:22
Christopher Ruffo continues by saying, critical race theorists believe that American institutions, such as the Constitution and legal system, preach freedom and equality, but are mere camouflages for naked racial domination.
They believe that racism is a constant, universal condition.
There's no evidence for this, by the way.
It simply becomes more subtle and sophisticated and insidious throughout the course of history.
So they believe we are just as racist today through our systems and our laws as we were back in 1804.
Only a college professor could believe something like this.
In simple terms, critical race theory reformulates the old Marxist dichotomy of oppressor and oppressed, Christopher Rufo writes.
He's exactly right.
Replacing the class core categories of bourgeoisie and proletariat with the identity categories of white and black.
The emphasis on race, which is what the new Juneteenth holiday is all about, is exactly what is going to break the ties that bind us together.
Christopher Ruffo continues by saying, the basic conclusion is the same.
In order to liberate man, society must fundamentally transform through moral, economic, and political revolution.
No private property, no speech, no nuclear families.
It's raised by the child.
No morals that say that you can and cannot, you should not, should or should or should not do something.
Instead, it is a relativistic moral paradigm that we should engage in.
And so you're going to start hearing this.
I want to play Jason Rance, who is on a show with Richard Fowler.
Richard Fowler challenged Jason to name one classroom where this is being taught.
And Jason responds.
And then I'm going to play Richard's clip after that.
And then it's cut three and then four.
And then I'm going to debunk what Richard says.
And then I want to play this new talking point they have about critical race theory.
And guess what?
Smart Democrats are really worried about critical race theory.
Smart Democrats actually know that they way overplayed their hand here.
And there's really no getting rid of it.
The only way to get rid of it is when conservatives rise up and extract it.
Democrats are in a no retreat position right now.
Democrats politically, they have gone all in.
Texas Holden, every single one of their chips is now in on critical race theory.
And when they very well could have had us talking about some other sort of fringe issue and the lullaby presidency was lulling America to sleep, the overemphasis on critical race theory has just created a political revolution that Democrats don't know how to handle.
Play cut three.
Name a classroom where they're teaching about critical race theory right now.
Name one classroom where the teachers are...
All across Washington State.
Every single person across Washington states.
Give me one classroom or one lesson.
So right now, there are classrooms, including in the Seattle area, in which students are being shown a video saying that because they are white, they have privilege.
Now, that privilege puts them at an advantage over others because of systemic racism.
That is a cornerstone of critical race theory.
That has nothing to do with history.
That has nothing to do with slavery.
If this was purely about showing our history, this would not be controversial.
This is about shaming people and calling people out on the basis of their skin color.
Yeah, but that's racist.
That's wrong.
Do you see that, Richard Fowler?
He's not built for defense.
The left doesn't know how to play defense.
They play defense very poorly.
This is something Donald Trump taught us.
We must always play offense.
And critical race theory has now put us in this position where conservative grassroots activists say, we get to play offense now.
You saw that Richard Fowler's face was perplexed.
He didn't know how to play defense.
This is one of Solinsky's rules.
Keep the pressure on.
And listen to how Richard Fowler responds, not even talking about this, saying, well, basically, we had slaves in this country and we treated them terribly.
Hey, does someone want to tell Richard Fowler that nine out of 13 of the countries that actually founded the Constitutional Convention were free states?
Did you know that we were a majority free country at our founding?
Not just a majority, nine out of 13.
What's that percentage?
Like 74%?
Yeah, like 68% off the top of my head.
Play cut four, and then we're going to check my head math, cut four.
Basically, we had slaves in this country.
We treated them pretty terribly.
There was a thing called Jim Crow.
During Jim Crow, African Americans were lynched.
They weren't allowed to vote.
They weren't given their rights.
We had a failed war on drugs that impacted black people badly.
I don't understand what's wrong with teaching the truths about American history and what's so wrong about that when it's what actually happened in this country.
Happy to talk about the truths, Richard, about how the black birth rate, I'm sorry, the black father rate got significantly worse after Lyndon Baines Johnson, about how the black community was the richest community in the 1940s and 1950s when America was considerably more racist.
But as soon as the white Democrat came and interceded and decided to subsidize single motherhood and have black women marry the state, things started to change.
And then you hear this college professor do the Richard Fowler thing.
Well, look, this is not being taught anywhere.
Do you know what they're doing?
They're admitting it's wrong.
Richard Fowler and this Harvard person, guest Annette Gordon Reed, whoever this person is, says, oh, no, no, this is actually not being taught anywhere.
They know this is a sinking ship.
You see, the Democrats were on the Titanic, singing and laughing and dancing, and an unexpected piece of ice hit the side, and that ship of the Democrat Party is going down at the hands of the cultural Marxists, and they're on defense, cut 11.
Basically, using critical race theory is a brand name.
Oh, absolutely.
It's a distraction.
You're right.
No one is teaching critical race theory K through 12.
Just to be clear, can you just repeat it?
It is a law school technology.
What is critical race theory?
Critical race theory talks about the influence of race in American laws, even things that don't have to do specifically with the they're not talking about race.
Very often, they have a racial component to it.
And yes, critical race theory is being taught in schools all across the country.
I can go through a list of it, and I will.
In fact, I'm going to give you an example in New York City of parents that are rising up against it.
If your child is being taught to think about race, they're being taught by the new KKK, the Democrats, the critical race theorists.
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What if I told you for $57,000 a year at the Spence School in New York City, you can have your white children, all girls' school, see videos that show white women entitled and annoying.
Reading from zerohedge.com, who's been right about all the inflation stuff for a long time, by the way.
What percentage of white women do you hate?
And there is a right answer, the host said on the video.
Remember when we talked about the professor at Yale University who says they dream about murdering and cutting the heads off of white people?
Stunned Parents Demand A Constitutional Reset00:05:04
That's where critical race theory leads.
On the front page of The Atlantic, the difference between the first degree racism and third degree racism.
If you're like me, I am exhausted and fatigued talking about the color of people's skin, and I'm ready to play offense again.
And that's what the Democrats have given us.
You see, they, in the midst and under the cover of the election, slowly and surely were implementing this critical race theory agenda.
And then all of a sudden, people started asking questions.
And do you know what one of the great errors of the Democrats was?
They did this while all their kids were actually at home and not in the classroom.
You see, one of the great errors of the critical race theorists and the Democrats is that they decided to implement this theory while their parents could be doing laundry in the room next to their kid learning on their laptop and they walk in and they say, wait, hold on a second.
Wait, what did they just say?
Did they just say whiteness is a cancer?
You see, Democrats are stunned at the momentum, force equals mass times acceleration, how fast and how big this movement is.
And they're stunned and they're shocked, but they shouldn't be.
They sent every child home for about a year, gave them awful ideas, removed any sort of confidentiality or secrecy of the teachers then putting forward those ideas.
Families were spending more time together than ever before.
And all of a sudden, moms and dads started saying, wait, hold on a second.
Is this what you've been learning?
This is what I'm paying for.
And almost fed up on a silver platter, served up on a silver platter, I should say.
Democrats presented a gift that is now an organizing.
It has a union of organizing.
It has a common ethos, which is we are not going to become a nation that judges people based on skin color.
Every minute we are playing offense, it keeps their offense off the field.
Every minute we make them have to do breaking new segments talking about how critical race theory is not being taught is a minute the Democrats don't know how to play defense.
This is one of the things that conservatives must always understand.
We must perpetually play offense.
Listen to the Washington Post encouraging white people to join white accountability groups to combat racism.
Cut 17.
A living embodied anti-racist culture does not exist among white people.
White people have got to start getting together specifically around race.
White accountability groups are really helpful in terms of having a place to process, having a group of people whose responsibility it is to call me on things or to challenge me.
White accountability groups.
You hear that?
It's almost like the new Alcoholics Anonymous.
Are you a white person or do you know a white person near you?
Do you want to go through the 12-step process to become an anti-racist?
You too can cleanse your soul of your addiction to whiteness.
The Washington Post.
This is where this leads.
For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
Critical race theory is decreasing in popularity.
The reaction to it is increasing in momentum.
It is in schools.
Your children are being taught that skin color matters.
The curriculum has been implemented.
Therefore, the opportunity is there for all of you listening right now from Sarasota to Atlanta to Dallas to North Dakota to Minnesota.
Do something about it.
You show up to that school board meeting and you ask questions.
You FOIA your local school board.
This is a bottom-up constitutional reset.
Forget the international reset.
This is a constitutional reset.
The people come first, then they voluntarily associate.
You're in charge.
You're in charge of your children's education.
You're in charge of the values that they learn and the things that are passed down upon them.
And deep down, you can see the unspoken truth of the Democrats.
Oh boy, we messed up.
They don't know how to deal with this.
They don't know how to reconcile with it.
They do not know what to do next.
And if you're like me, I'm tired of waiting for the next move.
Play offense, take the hill, remove that school board member.
Critical race theory is a gift to us.
It's time we seize it, and then we're going to win.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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