Posted on 04/11/2021 3:17:20 PM PDT by Main Street
Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.) sent a letter to West Point’s superintendent, Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams about “information” that recently came to his “attention from unsettled soldiers, cadets, and families that raises serious concerns about the U.S. Army’s introduction of elements of critical race theory into cadet instruction.”
“While we should always eradicate extremism of all forms from our ranks and never tolerate racism, I am alarmed that this doctrine that focuses our future leaders on race in ways that will be detrimental to unit cohesion, destructive to morale, and strain the readiness of our armed forces,” according to the letter.
Waltz told the Washington Examiner that he was able to speak with Williams.
“We had a brief phone call, he assured me they’re looking into it and assured me that I will promptly get a more formal response laying out what’s being taught and why in more detail,” Waltz told the Washington Examiner, adding, “We’re going to continue to press and get to the bottom of it.”
The congressman, in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, said that he got evidence of a West Point lecture, titled, “Understanding Whiteness and White Rage,” adding that some families who spoke to him were disturbed by the content.
“This goes way too far: One of the things that has me so disturbed as a member of the Armed Services Committee and a combat veteran is when you come into the United States Army, is … from day one, you are all the same,” he told Fox.
Waltz, a former U.S. Army green beret, added, “You are told the only skin color you should worry about is camouflage… The enemy’s bullets don’t care about Black, White, or Brown, or political party or race or religion or any of that. And we shouldn’t care about it either as we are teaching the future leaders of the United States Army.”
Meanwhile, the congressman said that critical race theory-inspired lectures included at West Point is trouble for a combat situation. Critical race theory is a branch of Marxist critical theory.
“As a Green Beret, I can’t imagine being in a situation in combat where I am ordering a soldier to charge a machine gun and he now has the seed planted in his mind—am I sending him because he is African-American? Should I feel guilty because of White privilege?” he asked.
The Japanese Admiral who helped plan the Pearl Harbor Attack.
Critical Race Theory, is a political cancer first developed by Civil rights lawyer Derrick Bell, who was the first tenured Black professor at Harvard Law School. It first was seen as a worthy effort to equalize the educational opportunities for students of color. It also had a component of the radical feminism that came out of the 70s. It was also rooted in Marxism, which no one had been alerted for its danger.
The reaction to such efforts were interpreted as white self-preservation, a misinterpretation designed to further denigrate those who were already defined as the oppressive culture of white privilege. Its flaws were reflected in various affirmative action strategies that were more racist than the racism they were meant to prevent. It’s being done through what is perhaps the worst tyranny of all; namely, the tyranny over the mind. It seeks only to subjugate the other as a means of overthrowing an existing structure. Once that structure is overthrown, the leaders of the revolution will find someone new to subjugate.
However, these Critical Race Theory proponents are persistent and are resistant to efforts to throw it into the dust bin of history because of its authoritarian nature—like any cancer.
Critical Race Theory needs to be taught at all the service academies, ROTC, and Office Candidate Schools as one methodology Communist enemies of the U.S. Constitution use to subvert this country.
The communists have won.
In a walk over. The GOP went AWOL from the political battlefield rather than support the MAGA agenda.
You would luze your job. That simple.
Only traitors would learn this...not cowards, traitors.
Disheartening to say the least.
notice who is in the audience, white people. This will not end nicely
Well... somehow what u said was raycist... somehow.
Yikes! I bet you he is not the only one the communist colleges, etc. in America “trained”, etc.
HELL TO THE NO to All this!!
Critical Race Theory is racist and anti-American.
Critical Race Theory is the New Apartheid.
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