Sen. Tom Cotton introduced an amendment during the Senate’s voting session yesterday, August 11. The amendment prohibits the use of taxpayer funds to be used to promote Critical Race Theory in pre-K-12 educational programs.
Sen. Cotton said that any claim by the left that CRT isn’t taught in America’s school system “is a lie.” He tweeted a graphic, explaining, “Head Start, which serves kids as young as 3-5 years old, is telling its teachers that no child is ‘too young to talk about race’ and that ‘by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates.’ ”
The left claims CRT isn’t taught in our schools. That’s a lie. Head Start, which serves kids as young as 3-5 years old, is telling its teachers that no child is “too young to talk about race” and that “by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates.” pic.twitter.com/fezwfT8qN0
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 11, 2021
Our school systems have been under attack for years, but the pushback movement against CRT has grown since the lockdowns. The leader of the campaign, Christopher Rufo, announced on July 8 that “at least 25 public school districts” spanning 12 states are teaching children that ” ‘whitenesss’ is the devil, luring children with the promise of ‘stolen land [and] stolen riches.” He said the ideas come from a required book “Not My Idea.”
Here is the full list of public school districts that are teaching "Not My Idea," which traffics in the noxious principles of race essentialism, collective guilt, and anti-whiteness.
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— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 8, 2021
The Senator announced the successful voting saying, “This evening the Senate PASSED my amendment to prevent federal funds from being used to promote Critical Race Theory in schools.”
He said, “Our future depends on raising a generation of kids who love America.”
This evening the Senate PASSED my amendment to prevent federal funds from being used to promote Critical Race Theory in schools.
Our future depends on raising a generation of kids who love America. pic.twitter.com/rVLW6b8XiB
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 11, 2021
The vote passed 50-49, almost down party lines with only one Democrat voting to ‘yay.’ Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, voted in favor of Sen. Cotton’s amendment.
The American Principles Project, an organization that claims it “wants to make the family the most powerful, well-represented special interest group in Washington, D.C.,” released a statement congratulating Sen. Cotton on his efforts.
The group’s president, Terry Schilling, said, “Last night’s vote was an important victory in the fight against Critical Race Theory. But even more crucially, 49 Senate Democrats are now on record as supporting the new racism.”
Schilling said that CRT is “the belief that a person should be judged based on their skin color rather than the content of their character.” He argued that “this belief, of course, goes directly against the American founding principle of equality under the law, and the vision that our country’s most revered civil rights leaders like Martine Luther King Jr. fought for.”
President Trump’s former Secretary of Defense tweeted, “No child should ever be taught to feel like a victim of circumstance of made to feel guilty for the color of their skin. I will never support Critical Race Theory in our schools.”
No child should ever be taught to feel like a victim of circumstance or made to feel guilty for the color of their skin. I will never support Critical Race Theory in our schools.
— Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) August 11, 2021
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