I learned as a child it is much easier to tear down than to build something worthwhile. It seems our political discourse has forgotten this simple lesson.
Critical race theory is seeping into our foundational institutions and attacking what it means to be American. This dangerous philosophy undermines our founding principles, institutions, social mobility and history itself — threatening to take us backward in time, not forward.
Just what is at the heart of this ideology? Critical race theory is based on the premise that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that American hallmarks such as the Constitution, property rights, color blindness and equal protection under the law are vestiges of white supremacy, patriarchy and capitalist oppression. It categorizes people as either oppressors or victims based on skin color, making race the prism through which American life is viewed.
But this view gets it exactly wrong. The problem is not America’s principles; the problem is rejecting them.
Continue reading Senator Lee's opinion in the Deseret News
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2021/7/13/22575354/critical-race-theory-attacks-what-it-means-to-be-an-american
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