**STOP CRITICAL RACE THEORY**

EDUCATION, NOT INDOCTRINATION

RALLY: SAT JUNE 12, 2021

11 AM - 1 PM **FREE RALLY**

Gov't Center, 1 Harrison St SE, Leesburg VA (grassy quadrangle in middle )

Hear from dynamic speakers about the dangers of Critical Race Theory and what you can do to stop it from dividing our children and families.

Highlighted Speakers:

Ryan Scott Bomberger, The Radiance Foundation

Rev. Ralph J. Chitt Rev. Ralph J Chittams Sr, Executive Director, Urban Red

Melody Clarke, Sr. Regional Coordinator, Heritage Action

Shawntel Cooper, Parent, Fight for Schools

Josiah Gaiter, Program Manager, FreedomWorks

Monica Gill, LCPS Teacher of AP US and Comparative Government

Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy and Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Fellow at the Heritage Foundation

Geary Higgins, 10th District Republican Chairman and former Loudoun County Public School Board Member and former County Supervisor

Patti Hidalgo Menders, EMCEE; President, Loudoun County Republican Women's Club and Parent

Scott Mineo, Parents Against Critical Race Theory

Joe Mobley, Parent, Fight for Schools

Ian Prior, Executive Director of Fight for Schools

Brenda Tillett, President, Stand Up Virginia

Jeremy Wright, LCPS Teacher

**Fill your car and bring your friends! Parking garage is right next to the greenspace where our rally will be held!**

Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the lens through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life. CRT underpins identity politics, an ongoing effort to reimagine the United States as a nation driven by racial groups, each with specific claims on victimization. Ultimately, CRT weakens the public and private bonds that create trust and allow for civic engagement.

Get the facts: what critical race theory is and how Americans can fight it. https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/critical-race-theory-fight/

Heritage Action has a full tool kit with the history of critical race theory and easy steps on how to take action complete with graphics! https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt

PLEASE BRING YOUR HOME MADE SIGNS!

Roots of Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory (CRT) is a descendent of critical theory (CT), a school of philosophy that began in Frankfurt, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s at the University of Frankfurt’s Institute for Social Research. It became known as “the Frankfurt School.” It was one of the first, if not the first, Western Marxist schools patterned after the Marx–Engels Institute in Moscow.

The Frankfurt School’s scholars fled to Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York in 1934 to escape persecution by the Nazis, and were careful to erase the word Marxism from their research papers so as not to attract attention in America.

Critical theory was, from the start, an unremitting attack on Western institutions and norms in order to tear them down. It built on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Friedrich Hegel and his best-known disciple, Karl Marx.

It next became a short step to critical race theory in the late 1970s and 1980s. CRT built on critical theory’s idea that the world is based on systems of power and claims that American law is systemically oppressive. It went a step further to claim that America is systemically racist, and that this racism produced an alliance between working-class whites and the oppressor capitalist class, which prevented working-class solidarity.

CRT holds to the idea that:

1) There is no absolute truth—only competing narratives. It sees “lived experiences” as mattering more than facts.

2) Individuals are either an oppressor or victim. You are predetermined by immutable characteristics such as race to fall into either category. Culture is defined by groups exercising power over each other.

3) America is systemically racist and must be dismantled. It sees America as having been founded on the system of capitalism, which is racist, and therefore must be disrupted.

When followed to its logical conclusion, CRT is destructive and rejects the fundamental ideas on which our constitutional republic is based. Applying the philosophy would violate a multitude of American civil rights laws by treating people differently according to race. It should not be elevated in American classrooms.

Learn how to Stop CRT in your School District! Visit the Heritage Action tool kit to learn more: https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt

Thank you to the event planners:

Affirm America: Mike Smith  

Center Right Coalition: John Overington 

Citizen Action Network: Jim Boothby, Dan Hess, Stoya Tadin

Freedomworks: Mike Melillo 

Fight for Schools: Ian Prior  

Heritage Action: Melody Clarke  

Loudoun County Republican Women's Club: Patti Hidalgo Menders 

Loundon County Republican Committee: Sharon Sadler   

Moms for America: Cindy Chafian  

Parents Against Critical Race Theory - Scott Mineo

Speak Up for Education: Andrew Gutmann 

10th District Republican Congressional: Geary Higgins

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