{"id":568296,"date":"2021-06-18T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568296"},"modified":"2021-06-18T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:36:17","slug":"ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-is-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-is-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz Says Critical Race Theory Is \u2018Every Bit As Racist As The Klansmen In White Sheets\u2019"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-is-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets%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=568296&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2021-06-18-at-5.05.31-PM-e1624050430878.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"49.168674698795\">\n<p>Republican Texas Sen.Ted Cruz had strong words for critical race theory (CRT) Friday, comparing it to the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz made the comments while speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition\u2019s \u201cRoad To Majority\u201d conference in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The senator began by talking about how a reporter approached him and asked him to define critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI explained to him, I said it\u2019s a theory that derives from Marxism. Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat,\u201d said Cruz, \u201cCritical race theory takes that same Marxist concept except it replaces class with race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritical race theory says every white person is a racist. Critical race theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical race theory seeks to turn us against each other and if someone has a different color skin, seeks to make us hate that person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell you right now, critical race theory is bigoted, it is a lie and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets,\u201d Cruz said to applause from the crowd in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a Christian and as an American, I love my brothers and sisters, whatever skin color you are, whatever ethnicity you are, whatever faith you are, whatever creed you are. We are commanded to love,\u201d Cruz concluded. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/14\/critical-race-theory-redefine-progressive-activists-ibram-x-kendi-antiracism-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Define Critical Race Theory\u2019: Far-Left Activists Quickly Shift Goalposts As Parents Nationwide Rebel)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republican-controlled states have increased their efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/wilson-school-district-board-equity-policy-critical-race-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ban<\/a> the teaching of CRT in schools, and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/opponents-critical-race-theory-diversity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parents<\/a> have also flocked to school board meetings to express their concern over the ideas being taught to their children.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Texas Sen.Ted Cruz had strong words for critical race theory (CRT) Friday, comparing it to the ideology of the Ku Klux Klan. 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