{"id":706347,"date":"2021-09-01T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706347"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T16:21:23","slug":"what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Critical Race Theory? Breaking Down The Ideology That\u2019s Hitting Schools Across The Country"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwhat-is-critical-race-theory-breaking-down-the-ideology-thats-hitting-schools-across-the-country%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=706347&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--><p>In a short period of time, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has quickly emerged as one of the most controversial topics in the United States. CRT has redefined the concept of \u201cracism,\u201d created contentious policies in military institutions, and turned staid school board meetings into war zones. But what is Critical Race Theory? What does CRT teach? Who are the leading critical race theorists and popularizers? What do they hope to accomplish in the United States? Here are the facts you need to know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Is Critical Race Theory?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Critical Race Theory is an ideology which holds that racism is not restricted to people\u2019s attitudes or intentions; \u201cstructural racism\u201d is deeply embedded into every aspect of American life. This \u201csystemic racism\u201d explains all disparities, or \u201cinequities,\u201d between racial groups. CRT\u2019s advocates believe that concepts like natural rights, meritocracy, and impartial justice are lies that white Americans tell themselves to maintain their hold on power and keep minorities down. To fix this unjust system and create \u201cequity,\u201d the government needs to massively redistribute wealth, power, and influence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Origin Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This ideology dates back to the end of the civil rights era when academics noticed that, despite laws ensuring equality of <em>opportunity<\/em>, white people and black people still had not attained equality of <em>outcome<\/em>. They assumed these disparities must stem from racism \u2014 but they had a problem: Polls show there is less <em>real <\/em>racism in society than ever before. Racist attitudes have plummeted to historic lows. The number of newlyweds in an interracial marriage increased by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/social-trends\/2017\/05\/18\/intermarriage-in-the-u-s-50-years-after-loving-v-virginia\/\">567%<\/a> between 1967 and 2015. Black <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/the-avenue\/2019\/10\/03\/black-household-income-is-rising-across-the-united-states\/\">economic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2020\/06\/black-high-school-attainment-nearly-on-par-with-national-average.html\">educational attainment<\/a> have increased dramatically. Despite manifest progress on every front, CRT analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matteroffact.tv\/diversity-educator-racism-worse-today-50-years-ago\/\">teach<\/a> that \u201cracism is worse today than it was 50 years ago,\u201d because disparities between <em>racial categories<\/em> have not been fully eradicated.<\/p>\n<p>Critical Race Theory\u2019s intellectual leaders say the movement <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.bu.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/320\/\">began<\/a> with a conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School on July 8, 1989. In a 2010 interview, Richard Delgado <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&amp;context=faculty\">described<\/a> the people at the conference (which he attended) as \u201ca bunch of Marxists.\u201d Some of the most influential CRT scholars include Derrick Bell, Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, Richard Delgado, Alan Freeman, Angela Harris, Neil Gotanda, Mari Matsuda, Charles Lawrence, and Patricia Williams.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282608\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282608\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-282608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-870x576.jpg\" alt width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-870x576.jpg 870w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-528101912-2048x1356.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-282608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CRT Scholar Derrick Bell \u2013 Neville Elder\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>They pioneered the theory that racism is not primarily about individual attitudes, but \u201cstructures\u201d created and designed to oppress minorities. CRT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/crsj\/publications\/human_rights_magazine_home\/civil-rights-reimagining-policing\/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory\/\">teaches<\/a> that race is a social construct, not a biological reality; since all people are alike, differences between groups should be explained by racism. While <em>individual <\/em>Americans may shun racist views, discrimination was deeply woven into U.S. laws and norms and continues to create unequal outcomes. Because whites have a vested interest in maintaining social dominance, racist laws only change when it also suits white interests, something CRT calls \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/critical-race-theory\">interest convergence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of minority groups may see their status suddenly change based on how it serves white interests, something CRT labels \u201cdifferential racialization.\u201d Finally, every member of a minority group must become a \u201cvoice of color,\u201d telling stories of how racial discrimination has affected them \u2014 and the majority\u2019s job is to listen, believe, and obey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CRT Takes On A New Meaning<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In concrete terms, CRT is deeply anti-American, in the denotative sense of the word. \u201cRacism is endemic to, rather than a deviation from, American norms,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Human_Rights\/Y9x08XxMC5MC?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=kimberle+crenshaw+%22the+normative+stance+of+critical+race+theory+is+that+massive+social+transformation+is+a+necessary+precondition+of+racial+justice%22&amp;pg=PA254&amp;printsec=frontcover\">wrote<\/a> Crenshaw in 1989. As a result, \u201cThe normative stance of critical race theory is that massive social transformation is a necessary precondition of racial justice.\u201d Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt9qg9h2\">wrote<\/a> in their book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction that \u201cracism is ordinary, not aberrational\u201d; it\u2019s \u201cthe usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critical Race Theory doesn\u2019t simply reject America: It rejects all the pillars of Western, Judeo-Christian civilization. \u201cCritical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order; including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law,\u201d admit CRT pioneers Delgado and Stefancic. CRT ideologues, they continue, \u201care also highly suspicious of another liberal mainstay, namely, rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things CRT throws out is nuance:&nbsp;<em>Every<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>difference in society is proof of deeply embedded prejudice. Ibram X. Kendi&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Stamped_from_the_Beginning\/e_3cCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%E2%80%9CWhen+you+truly+believe+that+the+racial+groups+are+equal,+then+you+also+believe+that+racial+disparities+must+be+the+result+of+racial+discrimination%E2%80%9D&amp;pg=PA11&amp;printsec=frontcover\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in his 2016 book Stamped from the Beginning, \u201cWhen you truly believe that the racial groups are equal, then you also believe that racial disparities must be the result of racial discrimination.\u201d Yet \u201c[w]e have a hard time recognizing that racial discrimination is the<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>sole cause&nbsp;of racial disparities in this country and in the world at large.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282610\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-282610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-745x576.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, US - SEPTEMBER 26: American University professor Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, stands for a portrait at the School of International Service following a panel discussion on his new book How to Be an Antiracist in Washington, DC. Kendis discussion spoke on strategies to identify and overcome racism on September 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Michael A. McCoy\/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-745x576.jpg 745w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-768x593.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-1536x1187.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1175990285-2048x1583.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-282610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ibram X. Kendi \u2013 Michael A. McCoy\/For The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following this logic to its natural conclusion, Kendi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/How_to_Be_an_Antiracist\/6pNbDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=The+defining+question+is+whether+the+discrimination+is+creating+equity+or+inequity.+If+discrimination+is+creating+equity&amp;pg=PA19&amp;printsec=frontcover\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in his 2019 bestseller How to be an Antiracist that racial discrimination is a&nbsp;<em>moral<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>necessary<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>step in America\u2019s redemption:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>[R]acial discrimination is not inherently racist. The defining question is whether the discrimination is creating equity or inequity. If discrimination is creating equity [minority wealth], then it is antiracist. If discrimination is creating inequity, then it is racist. Someone reproducing inequity through permanently assisting an overrepresented racial group into wealth and power is entirely different than someone challenging that inequity by temporarily assisting an underrepresented racial group into relative wealth and power until equity is reached. The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This ignores personal choice, moral agency, and the importance of the decisions we make to guide our own destiny. In 1950, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/fmc\/book\/4family10.htm\">83%<\/a> of black families had a father present; by 2015, the black illegitimacy rate had risen to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/77-black-births-to-single-moms-49-for-hispanic-immigrants\">77%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Figures across the political aisle agree that out-of-wedlock births carry grave social consequences. As Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2008\/06\/text-of-obamas-fatherhood-speech-011094\">said<\/a>, \u201c[C]hildren who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves.\u201d Libertarian economist Walter Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-dispatch.com\/opinion\/20190816\/walter-e-williams-how-important-is-todays-racial-discrimination\">explained<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>According to statistics about fatherless homes, 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes; 71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father figure; 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes; 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes; and 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions have no father. Furthermore, fatherless boys and girls are twice as likely to drop out of high school and twice as likely to end up in jail.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Each one of these factors \u2014 lower educational attainment, crime, homelessness, gang membership \u2014 increases the likelihood of a family growing up, and ending up, in poverty. \u201cIf we have learned any policy lesson well over the past 25 years, it is that for children living in single-parent homes, the odds of living in poverty are great,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/research\/an-analysis-of-out-of-wedlock-births-in-the-united-states\/\">wrote<\/a> current Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>CRT simply ignores these complicating factors and blames every differential outcome on an ill-defined \u201csystemic racism.\u201d To justify their program of complete social transformation, CRT theorists claim that, on a subconscious level, unearned \u201cwhite privilege\u201d makes all Caucasians guilty and resentful. \u201cMany critical race theorists and social scientists alike hold that racism is pervasive, systemic, and deeply ingrained. If we take this perspective, then no white member of society seems quite so innocent,\u201d wrote Delgado and Stefancic. Syracuse University professor Barbara Applebaum \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/soe.syr.edu\/about\/directory\/barbara-applebaum\/\">says<\/a> her \u201cresearch is heavily informed by \u2026 critical race theory\u201d \u2014 is clearer in her book Being White, Being Good: \u201c[A]ll white people are racist or complicit by virtue of benefiting from privileges that are not something they can voluntarily renounce.\u201d This has been codified into public school lesson plans: Teachers in Buffalo, New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manhattan-institute.org\/buffalo-students-told-all-white-people-play-a-part-in-systemic-racism\">taught<\/a>&nbsp;students that \u201call white people play a part in perpetuating systemic racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_282611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282611\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-282611\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-868x576.jpg\" alt=\"A participant holds up a sign during a rally against &quot;critical race theory&quot; (CRT) being taught in schools at the Loudoun County Government center in Leesburg, Virginia on June 12, 2021. - &quot;Are you ready to take back our schools?&quot; Republican activist Patti Menders shouted at a rally opposing anti-racism teaching that critics like her say trains white children to see themselves as &quot;oppressors.&quot; &quot;Yes!&quot;, answered in unison the hundreds of demonstrators gathered this weekend near Washington to fight against &quot;critical race theory,&quot; the latest battleground of America&#039;s ongoing culture wars. The term &quot;critical race theory&quot; defines a strand of thought that appeared in American law schools in the late 1970s and which looks at racism as a system, enabled by laws and institutions, rather than at the level of individual prejudices. But critics use it as a catch-all phrase that attacks teachers&#039; efforts to confront dark episodes in American history, including slavery and segregation, as well as to tackle racist stereotypes. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-868x576.jpg 868w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-1536x1019.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1233449758-2048x1359.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-282611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parents protest Critical Race Theory \u2013 ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The Implementation Of CRT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although some media personalities deny that public K-12 schools teach Critical Race Theory, its concepts clearly permeate school curricula nationwide \u2014 much to CRT founders\u2019 delight. \u201cAlthough CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline. Today, many in the field of education consider themselves critical race theorists who use CRT\u2019s ideas to understand issues of school discipline and hierarchy, tracking, controversies over curriculum and history, and IQ and achievement testing,\u201d wrote Delgado and Stefanic \u2014 in 2001. Nine years later, Stefanic said, \u201cCritical race theory is in some ways livelier in education right now than it is in law.\u201d Aside from the concern over the content of CRT, another worry for parents is that Kendi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaihs.org\/why-the-academic-achievement-gap-is-a-racist-idea\/\">believes<\/a> it is racist to measure literacy: Instead of measuring people\u2019s understanding of \u201cabstract\u201d things like \u201cwords\u201d and \u201cequations\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>What if we measured intellect by an individual\u2019s desire&nbsp;to know? What if we measured intellect by how open an individual\u2019s mind is to self-critique and new ideas?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>What if our educational system focused on opening minds instead of filling minds and testing how full they are?&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ignoring students\u2019 knowledge of reading, writing, and arithmetic would certainly reduce the number of schools <em>recognized<\/em> as failures; it\u2019s not clear that would benefit the struggling students, of any ethnic background, who are trapped inside them.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, a pervasive sense of failure and hopelessness seems baked into Critical Race Theory. CRT\u2019s founding father, Derrick Bell, believed that even if his followers succeed, they will fail. Bell wrote in his 1992 book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p><em>Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary \u201cpeaks of progress,\u201d short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. This is a hard-to-accept fact that all history verifies. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Black people, Bell wrote, must acknowledge their \u201cpermanent subordinate status.\u201d Then why expend the effort? Why even try? Because gaining power is the name of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Some critical race theorists openly admit, amongst themselves, that they are more interested in power than in truth. Regina Austin \u2014 who now \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.upenn.edu\/live\/profiles\/928-regina-austin\/profiles\/quattroneaffiliated\">pursues<\/a>&nbsp;her interest in the overlapping burdens of race, gender, and class oppression\u201d at the University of Pennsylvania Law School \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ir.law.fsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1521&amp;context=lr\">wrote<\/a> in 1995 that false conspiracy theories can help the cause. \u201cConspiracy rhetoric prompts behavior that tends to improve the lives of many blacks,\u201d she wrote. \u201cConspiracy theories create solidarity and facilitate mass mobilization.\u201d These&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.cornell.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1238&amp;context=cjlpp\">theories<\/a>&nbsp;are even better if they invoke \u201cold confirmed enemies like the Ku Klux Klan and the United States government,\u201d because they \u201cput[] limits on the forgetting and forgiving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the Left hopes these conspiratorial canards will put them into a position to repeal America\u2019s founding document and end the United States as we know it. CRT\u2019s anti-Americanism earns it a welcome reception on the Left. As Osita Nwanevu <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/159823\/constitution-crisis-supreme-court\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in The New Republic, because of \u201cthe structural defects and inequities progressives have long identified within the constitutional system \u2026 the American left should work toward abolishing the Constitution&nbsp;<em>someday<\/em>\u2014either for a new document or a new democratic order&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2020\/10\/written-constitutions\/616628\/\">without a written constitution<\/a>.\u201d (Emphasis in original.) With this grounding, you can understand why Barack Obama&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/therightswriter.com\/2008\/10\/socialism-we-can-believe-in\/\">told<\/a>&nbsp;public radio in 2001 that the U.S. Constitution \u201creflected&nbsp;<em>the<\/em>&nbsp;fundamental flaw of this country&nbsp;<em>that continues to this day<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patriotic Americans might think that Critical Race Theory \u2014 with its circular reasoning, ideological blinders, and \u2014 represents the fundamental flaw in American politics today.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a short period of time, Critical Race Theory (CRT) has quickly emerged as one of the most controversial topics in the United States. 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