How Critical Race Theory is Dividing America
Heritage Explains
Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
How woke is your workplace? This week, Christopher Rufo, a Heritage Foundation visiting fellow, explains what critical race theory is and how it’s dividing America.
Rufo exposé
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| 0:00.0 | From the Heritage Foundation, I'm Michelle Cordero, and this is Heritage Explains. |
| 0:14.3 | This month, your administration directed federal agencies to end racial sensitivity training that addresses white privilege or |
| 0:24.4 | critical race theory. Why did you decide to do that to end racial sensitivity training? |
| 0:30.9 | And do you believe that there is systemic racism in this country, sir? I ended it because it's |
| 0:36.3 | racist. I ended it because a lot of people were complaining that they were asked to do things |
| 0:41.4 | that were absolutely insane, that it was a radical revolution that was taking place in our |
| 0:47.9 | military, in our schools, all over the place, and you know it, and so does everybody else. |
| 0:54.9 | And he would know. |
| 0:55.4 | What is radical about racial sensitivity training? |
| 1:02.2 | President Trump and Fox News' Chris Wallace are talking about critical race theory. |
| 1:07.7 | The topic came up briefly in the first presidential debate. |
| 1:12.6 | But what is critical race theory? It's such an academic term. |
| 1:15.6 | Wallace called it racial sensitivity training. |
| 1:18.6 | Which is easier to digest, but is that what it really is? |
| 1:25.6 | Does this sound like a fruitful exercise in equality? |
| 1:30.2 | Here's what happened at Sandia National Laboratories, which designs America's nuclear weapons. |
| 1:39.7 | In one case at the Sandia National Nuclear Laboratories, they held a segregated training session, |
| 1:47.0 | a segregated re-education camp for white male executives, where they took them away for a weekend |
| 1:53.0 | and they were teaching them how to deconstruct their white male culture, |
| 1:57.0 | how to accept their complicity in white supremacy, |
| 2:03.0 | and then force them to write letters, |
| 2:06.6 | including some letters of apology to women and people of color, |
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