© Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesPresident and VP candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are prepared to wage war on America.
Let me explain.
Walz's most important education advisor is Brian Lozenski, a professor of "urban and multicultural education" at Macalester College. Lozenski is a prominent national voice in the world of critical race theory (CRT), and the foremost authority on CRT in Minnesota.
CRT holds that everything about American society is racist. Everything — American values, from patriotism and hard work; American institutions, from the traditional family to religion; and American policies, from secure borders to energy independence. Racism, say the critical race theorists, is in America's DNA.
This is a declaration of war. It could not be any clearer.Tim Walz appointed Lozenski to a key curriculum committee tasked with developing "ethnic studies" standards for instruction in every grade, in every required class, in every public school in Minnesota. (Ethnic studies is a cousin of CRT and, like CRT, has the "overthrow" of America in its sights.)
Under the proposed standards, as described by Katherine Kersten of the Center of the American Experiment:
- "First-graders must 'identify examples of ethnicity, equality, liberation and systems of power' and 'use those examples to construct meanings for those terms.'" (Yes, first-graders.)
- "High school students are told to 'develop an analysis of racial capitalism' and 'anti-Blackness' and are taught to view themselves as members of 'racialized hierarchies' based on 'dominant European beauty standards.'"
Ethnic studies is the centerpiece of Walz's education agenda, and Lozenski is the leader of the ethnic studies initiative.
Nor is this radical program simply something that has bubbled up from below.
Comment: And that is how the Swamp does politics.