Critical Race Theory (CRT), is a baseless, racist, discriminatory and a divisive concept based on Marxist/Socialist Critical Theory. It teaches that all white people are oppressors and privileged and people of color are oppressed victims. CRT does not continue the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. CRT teach children to judge others not by their character but by their skin color, a complete reversal of the lessons of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. CRT has no place in our society and especially not in our schools.
     Virginia Social Emotional Learning Standard (SEL) is an ill-defined education initiative that emphasizes skills like how to resolve conflicts or respect diverse views, and encourages policies that strive to meet students’ non-academic needs.  While parts of it sound good, the reality is SEL is a form of groupthink that forces children to adopt a socialistic worldview in place of individual critical thinking. Like CRT, SEL has no place in our society or our schools.
     Our children are a most precious gift from God and we have a responsibility to raise them with love and moral principles with the goal to instill in them the positive characteristics to be responsible citizens and live virtuous lives. But their minds are being polluted. Coupled with the lies of LGBT indoctrination and promoting murder by abortion, CRT, and its evil spawn, the 1619 Project and SEL, are immense stumbling blocks to these goals.
     I urge you to heed this warning from the Word of God as recorded in Luke 17:2 -- "It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should cause one of these little ones to stumble.” Let’s not place stumbling blocks before our children.

Sincerely,
A. Brooks