Pushing back against the evils of CRT

 Power Line:

The Left and the Democratic Party (pardon the redundancy) are all-in on Critical Race Theory. They see the pernicious doctrines of CRT as their path to permanent power, and the academic, political, press and corporate establishments are all trying to force CRT down our throats. There is just one problem: people don’t like it. And when people learn more about CRT, they like it even less.

Hence the campaign that Center of the American Experiment has undertaken to educate Minnesotans as to what Critical Race Theory is all about. Following Saul Alinsky’s rules, we used the Minnesota Department of Education’s proposed revisions to the Standards and Benchmarks governing the teaching of Social Studies in Minnesota’s public schools to illustrate and embody the evils of CRT.

We set up a web page called RaiseOurStandardsMN.com that contains information about the proposed new standards–things like the fact that they omit the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Holocaust–an omission later described by the Department of Education as an oversight–and any mention of notable Americans like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Instead, the proposed standards portray America as evil and decry the new triumvirate of “whiteness,” Christianity and the free enterprise system.

Promulgation of those standards is on an indefinite hold, after thousands of Minnesotans expressed their dismay to the Tim Walz administration’s standards committee. More than 80% of the public comments that were submitted on the draft revisions came from RaiseOurStandardsMN.com. As a result of overwhelming pushback from the public, the second draft of the Social Studies standards, originally scheduled to be released in February, has not yet appeared. And, in just about the only victory won by Minnesota’s Republican Senate in special session negotiations, our legislature has now blocked any changes to the Social Studies standards and benchmarks for two years. This was 100% due to American Experiment’s exposure of the radicalism of the proposed revisions.

Meanwhile, we have taken our campaign against CRT on the road. In a few whirlwind weeks, we held meetings in 16 cities around Minnesota: Winona, Rochester, Owatonna, Mankato, Willmar, Hutchinson, St. Cloud, Alexandria, Moorhead, Thief River Falls, Bemidji, Hibbing, Woodbury, Maple Grove, Coon Rapids and Burnsville. The 17th city is Duluth, where Democrats forced a postponement by threatening our venue (and a replacement venue) with violence. We will be in Duluth, at a more courageous locale, on July 13.

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There is much more.

Democrats have awakened a sleeping giant with their push of the racist CRT agenda.  Not only have they gotten the attention of parents across the country, but they have also turned those parents into activists opposed to the leftist agenda.  This was demonstrated in a school board election in Texas where the voters overwhelming threw out the old board which supported CRT and replaced it with opponents.  I think Democrats are scrambling to defend CRT and that effort is not going well.