{"id":1135055,"date":"2021-12-20T18:49:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135055"},"modified":"2021-12-20T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T23:49:48","slug":"exclusive-gov-pete-ricketts-critical-race-theory-is-about-resegregation-a-betrayal-of-the-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-gov-pete-ricketts-critical-race-theory-is-about-resegregation-a-betrayal-of-the-civil-rights-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 Gov. Pete Ricketts: Critical Race Theory Is About &#039;Resegregation&#039;; &#039;A Betrayal of the Civil Rights Movement&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-gov-pete-ricketts-critical-race-theory-is-about-resegregation-a-betrayal-of-the-civil-rights-movement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1135055&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/AP21011694470584-e1640033074439-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">As leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/02\/exclusive-ricketts-university-of-nebraska-denies-crt-use-while-own-records-reveal-consultant-behind-efforts-is-critical-race-theorist\/\">implement<\/a> critical race theory \u201cinto every corner of campus,\u201d Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts (R) spoke to Breitbart News about why the ideology is so harmful and how conservatives can fight it in his state and nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical race theory is talking about resegregation,\u201d Ricketts told Breitbart News. \u201cIt is talking about discriminating his people based upon their skin color. It is a betrayal of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King, who wanted his children to be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Nebraska Republican recently uncovered a plan by UNL Chancellor Ronnie Green to use critical race theory as a means to implement \u201cracially motivated hiring practices [and] harmful trainings\u201d that will \u201cpit people against each other by conditioning everyone to see others through the lens of race rather than as individuals with unique strengths,\u201d as Ricketts <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.nebraska.gov\/press\/gov-ricketts-university-chancellor-drop-ideological-indoctrination\">detailed<\/a> in a November 18 press release about the issue.<\/p>\n<p>And while Green denies his \u201cJourney for Anti-Racism and Racial Equity\u201d plan utilizes the ideology, Ricketts pointed out to Breitbart News that \u201cwhile the University has repeatedly denied that their plan includes critical race theory, their own records reveal that the consultant behind their efforts is a critical race theorist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor also said that \u201canti-racism is critical race theory.\u201d As Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/01\/education-department-extends-million-dollar-funding-for-critical-race-theory-training-program\/\">reported<\/a>,&nbsp;given the emergence of critical race theory as a major political issue, institutions who wish to implement it may surreptitiously refer to it by other means, or camouflage it behind phrases like \u201cculturally responsive teaching\u201d \u2014 which uses the same CRT acronym \u2014 \u201cculturally competent,\u201d \u201canti-racist,\u201d and \u201cequity.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ricketts said Green \u201cmisled\u201d him and university stakeholders, at one point telling them that the governor supported the plan. But Ricketts assured that \u201cnothing could be further from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Green eventually apologized \u201cfor not fully engaging [the Board of Regents] in the development of our Commitment to Action prior to it being rolled out,\u201d Ricketts told Breitbart News that Green intends to charge forward with the plan anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is a program that is anti-American,\u201d Ricketts said, continuing to explain that the goal was to \u201ccreate more activists\u201d in order to \u201cundermine traditional American values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically in UNL\u2019s plan, they talk about making students activists, and they are very specific about training students to be activists on critical race theory,\u201d he said. While they do not use the term critical race theory Ricketts explained, \u201cThey talk specifically about turning students into activists, specifically targeting the police department. \u2026 So, it\u2019s very blatant in UNL\u2019s plans they\u2019re talking about creating more activists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News reported, a mission statement for UNL\u2019s policy references a \u201cperpetual state of \u2018action,\u2019&nbsp;saying, \u2018Any set of actions will not reflect all of the work that must be done to dismantle racism, but it provides a starting point identified by many stakeholders across the institution.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>To \u201cembark on a Journey For Anti-Racism and Racial Equity,\u201d the UNL call to action promised to \u201c[utilize critical race theorist] Ibram Kendi\u2019s definition on becoming \u2018actively conscious about race and racism\u2019 and taking \u2018actions to end racial inequities.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s just part of how they are pushing forward their agenda, this radical, progressive, left-wing agenda of undermining our values as Americans \u2026 and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t ever want to give up on this,\u201d Ricketts said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One goal of that agenda is implementing Marxism in the United States, Ricketts maintained, saying it was no longer \u201ctheoretical\u201d and that the movement is not restricted to universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe King County Library System having segregated training sessions. Literally, you\u2019ve got resegregation \u2014 separating people out by their skin color for training sessions,\u201d he said as one example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see it in some of the defense contractors like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin,\u201d he continued. \u201cYou can see it at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. \u2026 This is not something that they\u2019re talking about theoretically in a classroom like Marxism. We discussed Marxism in our classrooms. But they\u2019re now saying, \u2018Well, now I\u2019m going to take this and I\u2019m going to implement it, I\u2019m going to bring it into the mainstream.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ricketts said that critical race theory is something that has been \u201ccreeping in,\u201d including in the Nebraska Department of Education, which is made up of a separately-elected board that does not report to the governor. He told Breitbart News that he has \u201ccalled them out\u201d on their usage of the widely debunked <em>New York Times<\/em> \u201c1619 Project,\u201d the communist pseudo-history pushed by the Zinn Education Project, and their sexual education standards based in \u201cgender ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing a case in Loudoun County, Virginia, where it appears the passage of a transgender policy motivated the school board there to cover up a rape of a student, Ricketts said the pervasiveness of the gender ideology is such that the school \u201callowed a boy to dress up in a skirt and go have access to a girls locker room and then that\u2019s where he committed a sexual assault. Nobody thinks that\u2019s a good idea except the far-left progressive radicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, however, the only way to change the trajectory of education in Nebraska and the country is by challenging school board members at the ballot box. \u201cTo&nbsp;change the policy, you have to change people,\u201d Ricketts said, but that can first require educating parents and the public about what is going in schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s the sex education standards that includes gender ideology, or it\u2019s this critical race theory,\u201d the governor explained, \u201cparents are seeing what their kids are being taught, and they\u2019re really waking up to this and finding out what the curriculum is, going to those school board meetings, and basically throwing a fit, saying, \u2018This is not what we want out kids being taught.\u2019&nbsp;And the left-wing radicals are pushing back saying, \u2018Parents don\u2019t have any say with their kids are being taught.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One thing Ricketts said has helped people wake up is \u201cwhat reporters have done to highlight\u201d the issue, but the governor told Breitbart News he took it a step further.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went around the state and did, I think, a dozen townhalls, talking to parents about what was actually in the sex education standards, talk about the gender ideology, this was some crazy stuff: teaching 12-year-olds about anal and oral sex, it really was sexualization of our children,\u201d Ricketts said, explaining that learning what their children were being taught in school motivated them to get involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we really kind of exercised my ability to use the bully pulpit to get people educated about it so that the parents would take action,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s where we put the pressure on the state board to stop their program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went around to educate parents, they were the ones to attend the school board meetings by the hundreds, thousands of phone calls and emails and letters went to the State Board of Education,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd they got the State Board of Education to table their sex education standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose standards are not dead,\u201d Ricketts said, however, explaining how important elections are to the education issue. \u201cThe same members are still there, and if they\u2019re still there after November of 2022, if not before, they\u2019ll come back and bring it back. So that\u2019s why it\u2019s important that parents go to school board meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the governor explained that is only a \u201cshort-term way to stop some of\u201d the policies. \u201cThe long-term way,\u201d he maintained, \u201cis to&nbsp;have parents run for office, find good candidates that are going to replace those members. And in our case, the State Board of Education, we need to run people against those incumbents and replace them with people who are going to be in line with what the parents think their kids should be taught.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right the school board members may slow down a policy, or really take out some of the inflammatory words,\u201d he continued, \u201cbut to make real change, we have to replace those people on the school board with people who believe the parents are responsible for a kid\u2019s education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One key to success, Ricketts said, is that Republicans need to \u201cown this issue,\u201d explaining that the party \u201ccould have done a better job in the past with regard to education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are right. \u2026 We\u2019re on the side of parents,\u201d he said, citing the success of the education issue in the election of Virginia Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin.&nbsp;\u201cWe think parents should be the primary people responsible for raising their kids\u2019 education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To see wins like Youngkin\u2019s, Ricketts told Breitbart News, Republicans \u201cneed to really get involved in the education issue in ways that we have not been in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As leadership at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is trying to implement critical race theory \u201cinto every corner of campus,\u201d Nebraska Gov. 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