In February, 2021, the Legal Insurrection Foundation launched criticalrace.org — a website that catalogues critical race training in higher education. Since it was unveiled to the public, we’ve added over 100 more schools, having researched a total of almost 350 institutions of higher education. We also have added K-12 resources.
The site has grown tremendously, as has our work load. We have many new and exciting components that we look forward to showing you soon.
Our deep dive into critical race training and its frightening prevalence in every cultural venue has led us to many other people and groups working in their sphere to push back against this outright Marxist, divisive, and racist theory. So we are proud to join a coalition of 24 other organizations also working to expose and push back against CRT. Many thanks to the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation for putting this particular Joint Statement together.
Don’t Divide Us!Joint Statement Against Critical Race Theory Using Race to DivideAmericansWe are a coalition of 25 organizations, representing a diverse group of civil rights leaders, academics, community activists and ordinary citizens. Coming from vastly different racial, ethnic and political backgrounds, we are united by our common values and shared identity as Americans. We are committed to promoting values of equal rights, equal citizenship, individual merit and liberty, against the divisive invasion of critical race theory in every aspect of our public life.Critical race theory (CRT) is a contested and explicitly political theory that examines all social relations, economic governance and policy outcomes through the prism of race and prescribes race-centered solutions to all social problems. While CRT, with its academic sub-variants and derivatives, should be judged as a scholarly subject of inquiry, it has increasingly become a monolithic dogma that informs broader cultural and political trends attempting to reshape and reengineer our society toward illiberal group think, equal outcomes, and collectivism.CRT and its pleasant-sounding derivatives — diversity, equity and inclusion, anti-racism, racial sensitivity, racial healing, critical pedagogy, critical awareness, social emotional learning and so on, are underlined by a common thread of placing race, racism, and racial struggles at the center of our national dialogue and public institutions. The doctrine paints a grim, inaccurate, and discordant picture of our history and present, challenging the very foundations of the liberal order, distorting our basic virtues of equality and merit, and purporting to dismantle free markets. Perpetuating this bankrupt ideology in real life leads to perverse discrimination, disempowerment and victimhood by virtue of race.As a broad-based coalition, we wholeheartedly support teaching cultures and history including slavery, racism and discrimination in a balanced, unabridged, nuanced and constructive fashion. We welcome meaningful efforts to build understanding and appreciation for different cultures and ethnicities in our diverse country. But we strongly oppose attempts to use race as a wedge to divide Americans and denigrate our great country. In this spirit, we stand firmly against CRT and its egregious manifestations in our schools, workplaces, and governments. We call upon you and all like-minded individuals to join our growing coalition for a genuine movement to safeguard democratic values of equality, liberty and unity.Don’t divide us!Alliance to Protect ChildrenAMCHA InitiativeBetter MilpitasCalifornians For Equal Rights FoundationChinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New YorkConcerned Parents of San DiegoEducators for Quality and EqualityEagle Forum of CaliforniaEqual Rights for All-PacFair Education Santa BarbaraFor Kids & CountryFree Black ThoughtInformed Parents of CaliforniaIrvine Equal Education AssociationLegal Insurrection FoundationMoms for LibertyNational Association of ScholarsParents Defending EducationProtect Our KidsSan Diego Asian Americans for EqualitySilicon Valley Chinese Association FoundationTOC FoundationUS Asian Art & Culture AssociationWe Save AmericaWhittier and La Habra Precinct Patriots
If you are concerned about Critical Race Training, please reach out to us via the contact form at criticalrace.org.
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