Political Stances on Critical Race Theory

“When asked about CRT in America in a debate with Trump, Biden said: “The fact of the matter is there is institutional racism in America, and we have always said we have never lived up to it that we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men and women are created equal. Well guess what? we have never ever lived up to it we constantly been moving the needle further and further to inclusion not exclusion…”

“Do you agree with critical race theory?” “Critical race theory, it’s so misunderstood, it’s something that had to do with a legal theory. The people were talking about in like law school […] It has to do with the idea that many things are seen through and filtered through the lens of race, but many things that the parents have been lining up to complain about in school boards around the country just were anything that’s had to do with race and calling it in this almost Hysteria about critical race theory. I think there is a big difference between critical race theory and teaching children the truth about the history of the United States, which I believe, regardless of our politics, is a requirement for conscious citizenship.”

“We need to do better on ethnic studies. And I tell you this as a teacher and as governor, too, we don’t need test scores or anything to tell us that we’re failing.”