On Monday, during House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s interview, he said that critical race theory goes beyond everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught.
McCarthy told BlazeTV host Dave Rubin that “Critical race theory goes against everything Martin Luther King has ever told us, don’t judge us by the color of our skin, and now they’re embracing it, right, they’re going backward.”
He added that according to his prediction, GOP will regain their power of the House following the 2022 midterm elections based on trends he’s seeing across the country.
“The next election is going to be big, right, because all these things about defunding the police,” McCarthy said.
“They’re all, all these Democrat policies that are now going in place we’re seeing the outcome — the woke-ism, the open border, the inflation. Where we’re going to have the biggest victory? School boards.”
In his Twitter post, he shared a video clip as he said “Critical Race Theory goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught us—to not judge others by the color of their skin. The Left is trying to take America backward.”
Critical Race Theory goes against everything Martin Luther King Jr. taught us—to not judge others by the color of their skin. The Left is trying to take America backward. pic.twitter.com/ZUx9Wu319Q
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 12, 2021
McCarthy’s interview with Rubin was conducted a week after he tweeted, “Critical Race Theory is racism.”
Critical Race Theory is racism.
Pass it on.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) July 6, 2021
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke against McCarthy’s statement. She retweeted the GOP leader’s tweet alongside a quote from King.
“Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of a sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.”
– Martin Luther King Jr, 1967 https://t.co/kvNpxyBQe1
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 13, 2021
“This quote of King’s is not from an early work,” she added. “It was one of his last words, from ‘Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?’
“If all sorts of folks who claim ‘what MLK would do’ actually studied his work, they would understand he was a radical. And an anticapitalist, too.”
“Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered for confronting white supremacy,” Ocasio-Cortez added in another tweet.
Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered for confronting white supremacy.
Today GOP who are gutting the very Voting Rights Act King worked for want you to believe he’d support mass disenfranchisement and teaching of racial ignorance.
They should read the books they’re trying to ban.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 13, 2021
This Twitter post only proved a great and deep division between the Republican leaders and radical Democrats on critical race theory.
A bill that would ban the teaching of critical race theory in public schools is now in preparation by several conservative states.
And just this Friday, Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill that will prohibit the teaching of critical race theory by the state’s local governments which also made Arizona one of the latest states to ban the concept.
Sources: Western Journal, The Hill
