{"id":568370,"date":"2021-06-18T21:21:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=568370"},"modified":"2021-06-18T21:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T01:21:48","slug":"sen-ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-every-bit-as-racist-as-the-klansmen-in-white-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ted Cruz Says Critical Race Theory \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=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fsen-ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-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=568370&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\/GettyImages-1217471239.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) excoriated Critical Race Theory (CRT) on Friday, explaining how it is a \u201cracist\u201d worldview that applies Marxism\u2019s theory of economic class conflict to race.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Faith &#038; Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference in Orlando, Cruz first recounted how a reporter scurried up to him on Capitol Hill this week asking him to define CRT. \u201cApparently he thought I would turn to him and say, \u2018Gosh I have no idea,&#8217;\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a theory that derives from Marxism,\u201d Cruz said he explained to the reporter. \u201cKarl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat; a fundamental battle in society. Critical Race Theory takes that same Marxist concept, except it replaces class with race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it says all of America and all of the world is a battle between the races. Critical Race Theory says every white person is a racist.\u00a0Critical 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>\u201cAnd let 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-about-power-black-theologian-voddie-t-baucham-exposes-demonic-ideology-behind-crt-blm-anti-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018This Is About Power\u2019: Black Theologian Voddie T. Baucham Exposes \u2018Demonic Ideology\u2019 Behind CRT, BLM, Antiracism<\/a><\/strong><\/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, period, the end,\u201d he added.\u00a0\u201cAnd those who would divide us, those who would spread lies, it is evil. It is exactly that, it is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9352941176471\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Critical Race Theory is bigoted. It is a lie. And it is every bit as racist as a Klansmen in white sheets. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i2lDGVLfkw\">pic.twitter.com\/i2lDGVLfkw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1405991457610215424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CRT is at the center of a cultural firestorm as increasingly more states are banning it from public schools. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose state banned CRT, has been at the forefront of governors coming out against it. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-calls-systemic-racism-horse-manure-blasts-very-harmful-critical-race-theory-as-race-based-marxism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">echoed<\/a> Cruz\u2019s sentiment in April when he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that systemic racism is \u201chorse manure\u201d and that CRT is nothing more than race-based Marxism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, give me a break. This country has had more opportunity for more people than any country in the history of the world, and it doesn\u2019t matter where you trace your ancestry from,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had people that have been able to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd here\u2019s the problem with things like Critical Race Theory that they\u2019re peddling,\u201d DeSantis continued. \u201cThey\u2019re basically saying all our institutions are bankrupt, and they\u2019re illegitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, so how do you have a society if everything in your society is illegitimate?\u201d asked DeSantis. \u201cSo it\u2019s a very harmful ideology, and I would say, really, a race-based version of a Marxist-type ideology. So we\u2019ve banned it in our schools here in Florida. We\u2019re not going to put any taxpayer dollars to Critical Race Theory, and we want to treat people as individuals, not as members of groups.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-black-father-explodes-at-critical-race-theory-during-school-board-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH: Black Father Explodes At Critical Race Theory During School Board Meeting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. 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