Critical Race Theory does not teach history. It teaches identity.

Specifically it teaches children to see themselves first and foremost through the lens of racial group membership. White children are taught that they carry inherited guilt for things they did not do. Black children are taught that they are defined by oppression that other people imposed on them. Every interaction between the two groups gets filtered through a framework of oppressor and oppressed.

And this is being delivered to six year olds.

I am a Black man. I know what racism is. I have felt it. I do not need a curriculum to convince me it exists or that it has caused real damage in this country. That part is not in dispute.

What I dispute is the solution.

Teaching a child that their identity is their grievance does not liberate them. It imprisons them. It hands them a story where they are permanently behind before they start. Where the deck is always stacked. Where effort and character and faith take a back seat to the color of their skin.

That is not what God says about them. God does not see them as a racial category with a predetermined outcome. He sees image-bearers with a calling, a purpose, and a future that no system can cancel.

The most dangerous thing you can teach a child is that they are helpless. Critical Race Theory teaches exactly that and calls it justice.

It is not justice. It is a cage with better lighting.

Stephon Rudd

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