Understanding Critical Race Theory Panel Discussion

Melody Himel Clarke, Heritage Action

Critical race theory (CRT) makes race the lens through which its proponents analyze all aspects of American life. FREE EVENT to learn more.

Crossroad Community Church

<h1>YOU MISSED A GREAT LIVE EVENT! But you can still watch it online here:</h1><h1><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDvnN83gRo&ab_channel=HeritageActionforAmerica" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grDvnN83gRo&ab_channel=HeritageActionforAmerica</a> </h1><h1>**FREE EVENT**</h1><h1>What is Critical Race Theory? </h1><h1>Panel Discussion: Thurs. July 29, 2021  6:30 PM to 8:30 PM  </h1><h2>Crossroad Community Church, 20684 State Forest Rd, Georgetown, DE 19947</h2><h3>Hear from dynamic speakers to learn what Critical Race Theory is and how to identify it as well as what you can do to stop it from dividing our children, families and nation. </h3><h3><strong>Panel Moderator: Melody Clarke</strong>, Sr. Regional Coordinator, Heritage Action.  Heritage Action is a team of movement conservatives holding Congress accountable 24/7. Melody is responsible for a region that covers fourteen states plus the District of Columbia. In addition to her full-time job amplifying the voice of almost 6,000 Sentinels with Heritage Action, Mrs. Clarke also hosts Politics on the Edge, a conservative talk-radio show featuring national level guests focused on federal policy.</h3><h3><strong>Addressing the roots of Critical Race Theory and its ultimate outcome:</strong></h3><h3><strong>Mike Gonzalez</strong>, Senior Fellow, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy and Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Mr. Gonzalez writes on identity politics, Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory, multiculturalism, assimilation and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. He spent close to 20 years as a journalist, 15 of them reporting from Europe, Asia and Latin America. He left journalism to join the administration of President George W. Bush, where he was speechwriter for the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission before moving on to the State Department’s European Bureau. Gonzalez was a member of President Donald Trump’s “1776 Commission.” He is author of "The Plot to Change America. How Identity Politics is Dividing the Land of the Free." It exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. </h3><h3><strong>Xi Van Fleet</strong>, Xi Van Fleet grew up in China. She spent her entire school years in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. After completing high school, she was forced by the CCP to go to the countryside to work in the fields for three years. She came to America in1986 as a student to pursue graduate studies. She has been working in the field of Information Management for the past 30 years. As a private citizen, she has never before been involved politically. Compelled by her personal experience during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the realization that what she experienced is taking place here in America, she has committed herself to warn the American people and help them to clearly see what is happening now in America.</h3><h3><strong>CRT in education:</strong></h3><h3><strong>Jonathan Butcher,</strong> the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. He has researched and testified on education policy around the U.S. He is currently writing a book for Post Hill Press discussing critical race theory in schools and America’s national identity. In 2021, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster nominated Jonathan to serve on the board of the South Carolina Public Charter School District, a statewide charter school authorizer. He has appeared on local and national TV outlets, including C-SPAN, Fox News, and HBO’s Vice News Tonight, and he has been a guest on many radio programs. His commentary has appeared nationally in places such as the Wall Street Journal, Education Week, National Review Online, Newsweek.com, and Forbes.com, along with newspapers around the country.</h3><h3><strong>Shawntel Cooper</strong>, Parent, Fight for Schools. Shawntel is a loving, dedicated wife, mother (mommabear), who doesn't conform to the popular opinion just because it's the popular opinion. I stand up for what I believe in.  Her goal is to continue encouraging we the people to research and question topics before making any judgement.  Her hobbies include gardening, advocating for our youths future. Achievement from speaking up at the LCPS was the ripple affect of "Courage breeds courage"</h3><h3><strong>Joe Mobley</strong>, Parent, Fight for Schools. He is host of the Joe Mobley Show and a disabled US Army veteran. Joe’s experience is exceptionally diverse and includes time in the military, law enforcement, church staff, and as a professional musician. He currently consults with one of the world’s largest and most influential firms.</h3><h3><strong>CRT in the Military: Jeremy C. Hunt,</strong> writer, commentator and current student at Yale Law School. Jeremy began his service as a military intelligence lieutenant stationed at Fort Stewart, GA. During that time, he deployed to Ukraine where he was part of a multi-national mission to train the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In 2019, Jeremy was promoted to Captain and served at a small Army Intelligence base in Arizona. </h3><h3>Jeremy has written thought-provoking commentary on race relations as well as other important national issues. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Fox News Opinion, The New York Post, and the Hill. He frequently presents his views on Fox News, appearing on programs such as “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” “The Ingraham Angle,” “Fox News Primetime,” and “Fox and Friends.”</h3><h3>Above all, Jeremy most enjoys spending time with his wife and one-year-old daughter in New Haven, Connecticut. @thejeremyhunt</h3><h3><strong>CRT in the Workplace: Stephanie Holmes,</strong> is the founder of BrighterSideHR LLC, an HR consulting firm. She is an experienced labor and employment lawyer who started her legal career at a large, international law firm and then worked as an in-house counsel for a Fortune 500 company for almost a decade.</h3><h3><em>**Fill your car and bring your friends! **  Register here </em><a href="https://heritageaction.co/crt-event" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><em>https://heritageaction.co/crt-event</em></a><em>  </em></h3><h2>**Note: Viewing will also be available online to ticket holders only! Please register using the Livestream ticket option.**</h2><h2>We want this to be an educational event where you will have the opportunity to have your questions answered by our panelists. To save time and keep the event flowing, you will have the option of asking your questions via your smart phone or computer.  Submit your questions for the panel here: <a href="https://heritageaction.com/ask" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://heritageaction.com/ask</a>   </h2><h3><strong>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.</strong></h3><h3>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! <a href="https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt </a></h3><h3><strong>Roots of Critical Race Theory</strong></h3><h3>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. </h3><h3>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.</h3><h3>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.</h3><h3>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. </h3><h3>CRT holds to the idea that:</h3><h3>1) There is no absolute truth—only competing narratives. It sees “lived experiences” as mattering more than facts.</h3><h3>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. </h3><h3>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.</h3><h3>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.</h3><h3>Visit the Heritage Action tool kit to learn more:  <a href="https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://heritageaction.com/toolkit/rejectcrt</a></h3><h3><strong>Register now to stay informed of any changes to this event as well as information on future events! You have received this invitation as a supporting member from your goup or organization. Space is limited, register today! Plan now to join us at this FREE event on Thursday,  July 29, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM!   </strong></h3><h3><strong>Doors will open at 6:00 PM, you must be registered to attend.</strong></h3><h3><strong>**Please share this information with your networks.**</strong></h3>