Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become the most divisive ideology in modern education, tearing apart classrooms and fracturing communities under the guise of fighting racism. Pushed by the academic left and celebrated by out-of-touch coastal elites, this doctrine doesn’t solve racial inequality—it weaponizes it. Instead of fostering unity, CRT forces students to view one another through the lens of oppression and privilege, breeding resentment where there should be camaraderie.
CRT proponents argue that it’s simply a framework to examine systemic racism. What they don’t tell you is that its implementation in schools forces kids to accept guilt or victimhood based solely on their skin color. Imagine being an eight-year-old and being told that, because of your race, you’re either an oppressor or oppressed. That’s not education—it’s indoctrination. Parents aren’t sending their kids to school to learn that merit and character are irrelevant, but that’s the inevitable result when CRT infects the classroom.
The rhetoric surrounding CRT has been carefully disguised as “anti-racism,” but its outcomes are inherently racist. Prominent CRT advocate Ibram X. Kendi has openly stated, “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.” If that sounds absurd, it’s because it is. True equality is treating people as individuals, not reducing them to stereotypes based on historical grievances. CRT flips Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream on its head, erasing his call to judge people by their character, not their skin color.
Parents are fighting back because they see the damage CRT is doing to their children and their communities. From Loudoun County to San Francisco, moms and dads have flooded school board meetings, demanding answers. These aren’t radical right-wingers—they’re everyday Americans who understand that unity, not division, is what strengthens a nation. Yet the left, in all its intellectual glory, dismisses these parents as too “ignorant” to understand what CRT really is. Apparently, only people with a Ph.D. in grievance studies are qualified to see the “truth.”
Let’s be clear: CRT isn’t about teaching history—it’s about rewriting it. Slavery, Jim Crow, and the civil rights movement are already covered in the curriculum, as they should be. But CRT doesn’t stop at history. It reframes every institution, every success, and every failure through the lens of racial oppression. It teaches students to resent their peers instead of embracing diversity as a strength.
The most laughable part of this debate is how Democrats suddenly become defenders of local education whenever CRT is challenged. The same people who cheer federal overreach in every other aspect of life are now clutching their pearls about “book bans” and “curriculum control.” But no one is banning books—we’re just saying it’s not the school’s job to turn math class into a struggle session on white privilege.
Critical Race Theory doesn’t belong in schools. It divides rather than unites, indoctrinates rather than educates, and fosters animosity instead of understanding. Parents across America are right to fight back because a nation built on shared values cannot survive if its children are taught to hate one another. Conservatives must continue to champion the principles of equality, meritocracy, and individualism. Those are the values that built this country, not the divisive doctrines of CRT.
