Ted Cruz slams 'evil' critical race theory as a 'lie,' calls it 'every bit as racist as a Klansmen in white sheets'
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) lambasted critical race theory, calling it an "evil" concept derived from Marxism, and "every bit as racist as a Klansmen in white sheets." Cruz made his fiery comments about critical race theory on Friday during a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Road to Majority Conference.
According to Cruz, a reporter tried to get the Republican senator on a "gotcha" question last week, asking him, "What is critical race theory?" Cruz theorized the Capitol Hill reporter thought the question would trip him up because the reporter likely believes "conservatives are morons," and they "don't know what they're talking about."
"I explained to him and I said, 'Well, it's a theory that derives from Marxism. Carl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat,'" Cruz said. "A fundamental battle in society."
"Critical race theory takes that same Marxist concept except it replaces 'class' with 'race,'" he explained. "And 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," Cruz stated. "Critical race theory says America's 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."
"And 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," Cruz emphatically proclaimed, which was greeted by applause from the conservative audience.
"As 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," Cruz declared. "We are commanded to love, period, the end."
"And those who would divide us, those who would spread lies, it is evil," he concluded. "It is exactly that, it is evil."
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People countered Cruz's comments on critical race theory.
"Critical race theory is an academic and legal framework that examines the impact of systemic racism on American society," the NAACP tweeted. "Refusing to examine our history denotes that nothing is wrong with our systems or history."
Critical race theory has dominated headlines in the past months and become a major topic in the culture war between left and right factions. Republican politicians across the country have taken steps to ban CRT from public schools.
Last week, Florida became the latest state to ban critical race theory.
"Florida's education system exists to create opportunity for our children," Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) stated. "Critical Race Theory teaches kids to hate our country and to hate each other. It is state-sanctioned racism and has no place in Florida schools."
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— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) 1623332367.0
Villanova assistant professor advocates for critical race theory because it has Marxist roots, relates it to religion
While many have been trying to hide any correlations and links between critical race theory and Marxism, one assistant professor openly admits that CRT is based on the teachings of socialist revolutionary Karl Marx.
Glenn Bracey, an assistant professor of sociology and criminology at Villanova, is a strong proponent of critical race theory because it has Marxist roots. Bracey made the admission during a remote discussion about critical race theory on Zoom. The seminar was posted on Villanova's official YouTube channel, which turned off comments on the video titled: "What is Critical Race Theory?"
Bracey appeared to promote critical race theory at the private Catholic institution by comparing the controversial ideology to religion.
"Given the power frankly of the church to move politics, given its funding, given how so many people come to the academy first with the church as a large backdrop in their lives, it's important that we as critical race theorists be able to speak to them on their terms," Bracey said, according to the Post Millennial. "So I would say that we as critical race theorists should continue to be aggressive in promoting critical race theory, that we should us say how it relates to spirituality and religion in particular."
Bracey then admits that the anti-racist ideology of CRT is rooted in Marxism.
"So the core question for critical race theory is one of releasing people, especially people of color, especially black people, from the oppressive systems that deny us access to our species being, including racism. It's Marxism," the assistant professor stated.
"Marxism is fundamentally a spiritual concern, and it's the same spiritual concern that Evangelical Christians have, and that they believe that all people are made in the image of God, and they are endowed by their creator with special abilities, creativity, individuality that needs to be manifested in the world," he said.
"So the church and critical race theory actually have the same purpose with respect to the Marxist origins, even though Evangelicals don't seem to recognize that," he added.
"Evangelical Christians are very upset about critical race theory because it is self-consciously grounded in Marxism," Bracey proclaimed. "Now, when Evangelical Christians hear critical race theory is grounded in Marxism, what they hear is, religion is opiate of the masses, that religion is a distraction from justice, that religion is nothing more than fictions that are—that make people deviate from reality."
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"Racism is the everyday operation of our American system," Bracey declared. "Racism is permanent. Not because of objective reasoning … but because whites are fixated on blackness and anti-blackness, and they orient different other racial groups in the middle of white and black in order to protect their own superiority."
"In other words, racism is something that white people could decide to give up," he continued. "They could change the social [relationships], they could change the way that they, their anti-blackness, but they won't."
On Bracey's profile page on the Villanova website, he lists his "areas of expertise" as race and politics, sociology, Black Lives Matter, critical race theory, race and law, social movements, and Colin Kaepernick.
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