Students should not be required to have a lesson on DEI or CRT in order to graduate unless it is legitimately relevant to the student’s course of study.
Texas has a responsibility to maintain the integrity of education in its collegiate institutions. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a successor to Critical Race Theory (CRT) which places the theories of CRT into practice. Doctor Quintin Bostic—a former teacher who creates and sells K-12 curriculum—in reference to prohibitions on CRT in the classroom, once said, “If you don’t say the words ‘Critical Race Theory,’ you can technically teach it." To do so, Dr. Bostic would utilize Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) to obfuscate the truth and sidestep the narrow laws that prohibited the practice of CRT.
CRT stems from the “philosophical writings of Derrick Bell in the 1970s and early 1980s” where he, alongside Alan Freemen and Richard Delgado, utilized critical theory as a basis for studying race in the United States. Critical Theory itself is a “Marxist-inspired movement in social and political philosophy." Accredited to Max Horkheimer, Critical Theory is “a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it." This is done through the lens of the oppressed, oppressor, and oppressive systems. Essentially, the theory suggests that systems were built for and by “the oppressor” to ensure that “the oppressed” remain that way. In the context of critical theory, the oppressed are the proletariat (working class) and the oppressors are the bourgeoisie (middle and upper class). As upward mobility is accessible in the United States like nowhere else in the world, such rhetoric is not palatable for Americans. Instead, race was inserted into Critical Theory, creating CRT, where minority groups are viewed as “the oppressed” and white people are seen as “the oppressor.” This generates a far more toxic form of Marxism with a racial foundation that seeks to divide Americans on the basis of their heritage in a similar way to how Marxism divided the bourgeoisie and the proletariat.
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