{"id":474730,"date":"2021-05-05T14:35:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=474730"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:35:37","slug":"tennessee-republican-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-in-military-service-academies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republican-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-in-military-service-academies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republican Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory in Military Service Academies"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ftennessee-republican-moves-to-ban-critical-race-theory-in-military-service-academies%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=474730&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 readability=\"28.052863436123\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Rep. Mark Green: &#8216;Marxist&#8217; ideology has no place in U.S. military academies<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/West-Point-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-1615.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/West-Point-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/West-Point-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/West-Point-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/West-Point-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 May 5, 2021 2:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"75.157505773672\">\n<p><span>A Tennessee Republican announced legislation Wednesday to ban the teaching of critical race theory at U.S. military service academies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rep. Mark Green (R., Tenn.), an alumnus of West Point and an Iraq war veteran, said the presence of critical race theory at America\u2019s elite military institutions, through diversity trainings and &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; curriculum, fosters &#8220;divisiveness&#8221; and undermines the military&#8217;s ability to fight effectively. The movement, he said, is &#8220;a Marxist ideology&#8221; that contains false ideas about American history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Critical Race Theory is based on a massive and purposeful misunderstanding of the American founding, American history, and America as it exists today,&#8221; Green <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/markgreen.house.gov\/2021\/5\/rep-green-introduces-bill-to-block-critical-race-theory-training-in-us-military-service-academies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;This is a Marxist ideology created to tear American institutions down\u2026. The United States military service academies are designed to train leaders and warriors for combat\u2014men and women of every race, creed, and religion. Critical Race Theory\u2019s divisiveness will destroy the unit cohesion necessary to win in combat and defend this nation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The bill comes soon after an April <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/military-service-academies-go-woke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> from the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><span>revealing the use of &#8220;anti-racist&#8221; teaching tools and admissions practices at West Point. One reading list included the work of well-known critical race theorists Ibram X. Kendi, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the <em>New York Times<\/em>\u2018 1619 Project. Internal documents also showed the military academy stressed the importance of diversity and inclusion <\/span><span>to remain appealing to &#8220;America&#8217;s younger generation&#8221; and competitive with other elite institutions that have embraced critical race theory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Critical race theory extends beyond military academies into branches of the armed forces. A recent U.S. Navy reading list for officers and sailors <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/navy-reading-list-includes-anti-racism-book-for-sailors\/\"><span>included<\/span><\/a><span> books on &#8220;anti-racism,&#8221; the criminal justice system, and gender politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Green\u2019s bill follows efforts by other members of Congress to root out critical race theory from the U.S. military. In March, fellow Army veteran Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cotton-bill-would-ban-critical-race-theory-training-in-armed-forces\/\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> for the elimination of critical race theory training at the Department of Defense, saying it was &#8220;anti-American.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Rep. Mark Green: &#8216;Marxist&#8217; ideology has no place in U.S. military academies  Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 May 5, 2021 2:30 pm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277381,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/West-Point-736x491-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Republican Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory in Military Service Academies","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/West-Point-736x491-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Republican Moves To Ban Critical Race Theory in Military Service Academies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}