SCOOP: AT&T Corporation has created a race reeducation program with materials claiming that "racism is a uniquely white trait" and teaching employees: "White people, you are the problem."

Here's the full story.🧵
I have obtained a cache of internal documents about the company’s initiative, called Listen Understand Act, which is based on the core principles of critical race theory, including "intersectionality," "systemic racism," "white privilege," and "white fragility."
AT&T company instructs employees to study a resource claiming that the United States is a "racist society" and telling readers: "White people, you are the problem. Regardless of how much you say you detest racism, you are the sole reason it has flourished for centuries."
The resource claims that "American racism is a uniquely white trait" and that "Black people cannot be racist." White women, in particular, "have been telling lies on black men since they were first brought to America in chains."
In another resource, AT&T teaches that "COVID-19 may have actually helped prepare us to confront in a deeper, more meaningful way the many faces of racism" by giving whites a fear of imminent death and "brooding sense of always feeling vulnerable."
Furthermore, as millions of Americans have lost their jobs, they "have more time" to attend street protests, which provided "a way to feel like one could have an impact." The sense of "shared helplessness," the resource claims, has resulted in positive political activism.
Finally, AT&T encourages employees to participate in a 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge, which teaches that "Whiteness is one of the biggest and most long-running scams ever perpetrated" and that the "weaponization of whiteness" is a "constant barrage of harm" for minorities.
The 21-Day Challenge also directs employees to articles and videos promoting fashionable left-wing causes, including "reparations," "defund police," and "trans activism," with further instruction to "follow, quote, repost, and retweet" left-wing activist organizations.
AT&T is another Fortune 100 company that has succumbed to the latest fad: corporate "diversity and inclusion" programming that traffics in the ugly concepts of race essentialism and collective guilt.

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30 Oct
Terry McAuliffe's closing argument is that critical race theory is a "racist dog whistle" that has "never been taught in Virginia." But I can debunk this lie—and prove that McAuliffe himself was the first Virginia governor to promote CRT.

Let's go.🧵
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The media is doubling-down on the narrative that "critical race theory isn't in K-12 schools." So I'm going to put together a thread debunking this claim and showing you exactly what's happening in classrooms across the country.

Buckle up. 🧵
First, the founder of critical race theory, Kimberlé Crenshaw, recently admitted that critical race theory "originated in law schools," but then migrated to the K-12 education system—which, she says, is "a good thing."
Here's another critical race theory co-founder, Richard Delgado, boasting that CRT has colonized education. He said the theory is "livelier in education right now than it is in law"—and this was ten years ago.
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The NSBA's gambit to label parents "domestic terrorists" has collapsed. Their organization has splintered, their strategy has backfired, and their board has been forced to apologize.

I'm going to explain exactly how we did it.🧵
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We then deployed a rhetorical ju-jitsu move, debunking the false claim that parents had been violent against school officials and recasting the dynamic as the Biden Admin using the FBI to suppress parents and criminalize dissent. Suddenly, they were on the defensive.
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The fight against critical race theory is reaching a crescendo. My colleagues at the @ManhattanInst have created some incredible resources for parents and policymakers. Let's review.🧵
First, the great @JamesRCopland has created the gold standard for state legislation, designing a bill that promotes transparency, gives parents an opt-out, and protects students against race essentialism and compelled speech.
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SCOOP: @Walmart has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a "white supremacy system" and teaches white hourly-wage workers that they are guilty of "white supremacy thinking" and "internalized racial superiority."

Buckle up.🧵
Walmart launched the program with the Racial Equity Institute in 2018 and has trained more than 1,000 employees on the core principles of critical race theory, including "intersectionality," "internalized racial oppression,"and "white anti-racist development."
The program begins with the claim that the United States is a "white supremacy system," designed by white Europeans for maintaining "white skin access to power and privilege." Whites are thus subjected to "racist conditioning" that indoctrinates them into "white supremacy."
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SCOOP: @TerryMcAuliffe claims that critical race theory has "never been taught in Virginia," but I've obtained a memo from the State Superintendent directly promoting CRT, calling it "an important analytic tool" for addressing "power and privilege" in all Virginia schools.
And here's another one: the Virginia Department of Education is currently promoting an initiative called "anti-racism in education," which features the critical race guru Ibram X. Kendi and explicitly deriving their definitions from "critical race theory."
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This all began in 2015, when @TerryMcAuliffe was Virginia governor and initiated the first documented statewide Department of Education training program on "critical race theory." It's expanded through the Northam administration—and must be stopped.
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