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>>> SOME OF YOU MAY BE
WONDERING, WHAT IS THE ZEAL WITH
THE GOP FREAKOUT OVER CRITICAL
RACE THEORY?
IT IS EVERYWHERE.
IT WAS EVEN USED AS A GOP CALL
TO ARMS AT A CONSERVATIVE
CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE LAST WEEK.
>> THE OLD MARXISM USED
ECONOMICS TO GAIN CONTROL.
THE NEW MARXISM, THE NEW MARXISM
USES IDENTITY POLITICS.
AND THE RESULT LOOKS NOTHING
LIKE AMERICA.
THERES NO REASON TO BELIEVE
THAT THIS NEW MARXISM WILL
RESULT IN ANYTHING BUT WHAT THE
OLD MARXISM DID.
>> CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS
RACISM.
PURE AND SIMPLE.
IT SHOULD BE REJECTED BY EVERY
AMERICAN OF EVERY RACE.
>> LET ME TELL YOU RIGHT NOW,
CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS BIGOTED,
IT IS A LIE AND EVERY BIT AS
RACIST AS THE KLANSMEN IN WHITE
SHEETS.
>> HERES THE THING.
NONE OF THIS IS RANDOM.
THIS IS RESULT OF A HIGHLY
MANUFACTURED STRATEGY CREATED BY
SEASONED POLITICAL OPERATIVES
LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT WEDGE
ISSUE TO TAKE BACK POWER.
TO COMBAT THE ENERGY OF THE
MULTIRACIAL COALITION THAT TOOK
GEORGIA AND SOMETHING TO REPLACE
BLUE LIVES MATTER SINCE JANUARY
6th EXPOSED THAT SLOGAN AS A
SHAM.
CONSERVATIVES IN CONGRESS TOOK
NOTE AND STARTED CHATTERING
WHICH WAS THEN INGESTED INTO THE
FEEDER SYSTEM OF FOX NEWS.
THE TAG LINE DISSEMINATED AND
THE WAR AGAINST CRITICAL RACE
THEORY TOOK OFF.
NO ONE WANTS A BOOGIE MAN NEAR
THEIR KIDS AND CERTAINLY NOT IN
THEIR CHARMS.
THE OPERATIVES KNOW THIS.
THOSE FEARS GOT PLAYED UP.
NOW I KNOW WHAT THE FEARS OF
TRANS KIDS TAKING OVER, TALKING
ABOUT CRITICAL LA THAT THEY
BELIEVE TEACHES WHITE KIDS THEY
ARE RACIST.
NONE OF THIS IS ACTUALLY
HAPPENING BUT WHO CARES ABOUT A
LITTLE OLD THING LIKE THE TRUTH
WHEN YOU HAVE THE PERFECT BUZZ
WORD FOR 2022.
IT EVEN HAS THE MAGIC WORD IN
IT.
RACE.
JOINING ME NOW, KIMBERLY
CRENSHAW, CO-FOUNDER AND
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, THE LEGAL
SCHOLAR WHO COINED THE TERM.
CHRIS RACE THEORY.
SO IT IS YOUR FAULT, MADAM.
I TRIPPED OVER THE CUSH THIS
MORNING.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY!
DAM
DAMN YOU!
AND YOU NEED TO STOP WITH THE
CICADA RACE THEORY.
I JUST WROTE BACK A FEW OF THE
NOTES WHAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING
IT.
MARXISM, RACISM, BIGOTED.
LETS START WITH THE MARXISM.
THATS THE FAVORITE UP WITH.
THEYRE USING THAT EVERY TIME.
I HATE TO ASK DUMB QUESTIONS SO
PLEASE DONT THINK THAT IM
DUMB.
IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY MARXISM?
>> HERES THE THING.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS NOT SO
MUCH A THING.
IT IS A WAY OF LOOKING AT A
THING.
A WAY OF LOOKING AT RACE.
A WAY OF LOOKING AT WHY AFTER SO
MANY DECADES, CENTURIES,
ACTUALLY, SINCE THE
EMANCIPATION, WE HAVE PATTERNS
OF INEQUALITY THAT ARE ENDURING.
THEYRE STUBBORN.
THE POINT ORIGINALLY WAS TO TALK
ABOUT HOW LAW CONTRIBUTED TO THE
STATUS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS, OF
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, AND AN ENTIRE
GROUP OF PEOPLE COMING TO OUR
SHORES FROM ASIA.
THE POINT WAS TO UNDERSTAND THE
PROBLEM TO INTERVENE IN IT.
TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE GREATEST
HOPES FOR A REPUBLIC WERE NOT
BEING REALIZED EVEN THOUGH THESE
HOPES WERE ENCODED IN LAW.
SO CRITICAL RACE THEORY JUST
INHERITS THE BELIEFS AND THE
HOPES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS,
MARTIN LUTHER KING, WHO WANTS
THE LAW TO DO FOR FREED PEOPLE
WHAT THE LAW DID FOR ENSLAVERS.
WE PICKED THAT UP IN THE 70s
AND 80s AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT TO SAY, OKAY, NOW WEVE
HAD THIS BIG CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT.
WE HAVE ALL THESE LAWS ON THE
BOOKS.
BUT THINGS REALLY ARE NOT LUCAS
DIFFERENT AS THEY SHOULD.
IF WE ARE REALLY THE SOCIETY WE
SAY WE ARE.
SO HOW LAW WASNT JUST THE
NEUTRAL REFEREE.
LAW WAS NOT ALWAYS ON OUR SIDE.
IN FACT, LAW WAS LESS ON OUR
SIDE THAN FOR ON OUR SIDE AND WE
WANTED TO TELL THESE STORIES TO
DO BETTER WITH THE PROMISES THAT
ARE EMBEDDED IN THE
CONSTITUTION.
SO.
>> IS THERE A K-12 CURRICULUM
THAT RIGHT NOW IS BEING -- IM
SORRY.
I KNOW IT IS A DUMB QUESTION.
IS THERE A K-12 CURRICULUM ON
CRITICAL RACE THEORY BEING
TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS AROUND THIS
COUNTRY?
>> WELL, LOOK, IF IT WAS NEWS TO
MOST AMERICANS CRITICAL RACE
THEORY WAS IN K-12, IT WAS NEWS
TO ME, TOO.
IM ONE OF THE CO-AUTHORS OF ONE
OF THE FEW BOOKS ON CRITICAL
RACE THEORY.
I THINK I WOULD KNOW IF WE WERE
BEING TAUGHT K-12.
BASICALLY, CLASSIC CRITICAL RACE
THEORY IS A LAW SCHOOL COURSE
AND IT IS REALLY NOT TAUGHT AS
WIDELY AS I WOULD HOPE IT WOULD.
BUT HERES THE DEAL.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANYTHING
CALLED CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS
IN K-12.
IT DOESNT EXIST ANY WAY.
IT IS A BACK LASH EFFORT TO
REVERSE THE RACIAL RECKONING,
UNLIKE ANY WEVE SEEN IN OUR
LIFETIME.
AS YOU POINT OUT IN THE
BEGINNING, THEY CANT SAY, WERE
FOR RACISM.
THEY CANT SAY DEREK CHAUVIN
SHOULD HAVE KILLED GEORGE FLOYD
WITH HIS HAND IN HIS POCKET
LOOKING LIKE HE WAS WITHOUT A
CARE IN THE WORLD.
THEY COULDNT SAY THAT.
SO THEY LOOKED AROUND AND FOUND
A STRANGE SOUNDING THEORY THAT
THEY COULD PUT ALL THE
GRIEVANCES AND RESENTMENTS AND
MOBILIZE PEOPLE AROUND THIS
BOOGIE MAN.
AND IF OUR SIDE CANNOT REALLY
UNDERSTAND WHATS GOING ON, IT
IS GOING TO WORK.
IT WORKED IN RECOULDNT
INSTRUCTION AND KIT WORK IN
THIS, TOO.
>> AND A GENTLEMAN WHO VERY
VIGOROUSLY REQUESTED TO BE ON
THE SHOW.
WERE GOING TO TAKE HIM UP ON IT
AND INVITE HIM ON THIS WEEK.
HE SAID WEVE SUCCESSFULLY
FROZEN THEIR BRAND.
CRITICAL RACE THEORY INTO THE
PUBLIC CONVERSATION AND ARE
STEADILY DRIVING UP NEGATIVE
PERCEPTIONS.
WE WILL EVENTUALLY TURN IT TOXIC
AS WE PUT ALL THE VARIOUS
CULTURAL INSANITIES UNDER THAT
BRAND CATEGORY.
TO WIT, FOX NEWS HAS MENTIONED
IT NEARLY 1,300 TIMES IN THE
PAST THREE AND A HALF MONTHS AND
WEVE NOW DISCOVERED THESE
PARENTS SHOWING UP AT SCHOOL
BOARDS AGAINST THEIR CHILDREN
BEING TAUGHT THEYRE RACIST.
IT TURNS OUT THEY ARE REPUBLICAN
ACTIVISTS.
NOT JUST REGULAR OLD PARENTS.
>> BIG SURPRISE THERE, RIGHT?
>> YEAH.
NOT SURPRISING AT ALL.
SO I GUESS MY LAST QUESTION TO
YOU WOULD BE, WHAT DO YOU WORRY
IS SORT OF PURPOSE OF WHAT
THEYRE TRYING TO DO?
THIS IS POLITICAL.
IT IS ABOUT GETTING OUT THE
WHITE VOTERS IN 2022.
IS THERE A BIGGER RISK TO NAMING
CRITICAL RACE THEORY AS SOME
SORT OF MARXIST PLOT?
>> WELL, OF COURSE.
THE BIGGEST RISK IS THAT THIS
TRIED AND TRUE FRAMING OF
ANTI-RACISM AS RACIST AGAINST
WHITE PEOPLE WILL WIN AGAIN.
IT WON AT THE END OF THE CIVIL
WAR WHEN CIVIL RIGHTS WERE
FRAMED AS REVERSE DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WHITE PEOPLE.
IT WON AFTER BROWN VERSUS BOARD
OF EDUCATION WHEN INTEGRATION
WAS FRAMED AS DAMAGING WHITE
CHILDREN.
AND IT COULD WIN NOW IF PEOPLE
DONT WAKE UP AND HAVE A SENSE
OF WHAT IS AT STAKE.
SO YEAH.
YOULL HEAR ALL THESE CHERRY
PICKED STORIES.
A LOT OF THEM WERE NOT
VERIFIABLE THAT THE OTHER SIDE
IS PUTTING OUT THERE.
YOURE NOT GOING ON HEAR, AND
YOU SHOULD, WHAT IS HAPPENING.
YOU WONT HEAR THAT IT WAS THE
REASON WHY A SCHOOL TEACHER WAS
FIRED.
YOU WONT HEAR ABOUT THE
AFFINITY GROUPS IN COLLEGES AND
UNIVERSITIES, AND THE PROGRAMS,
THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS BEING
CANCELED.
SO WE NEED TO SEE MATERIALLY
WHAT THIS IS DOING IN ORDER TO
WEIGH INTO THIS.
IF ANYONE WAS MOBILIZED BY LAST
YEAR, IF ANYONE IS CONCERNED