Far-Right Militia Apparently Attends CO School Board Meeting on Critical Race Theory

The academic concept of Critical Race Theory (CRT), the Republican Party’s latest boogeyman, is drawing angry conservatives, apparently including members of far-right militias, to school board meetings across Colorado.

CRT is an academic concept that stipulates that racism is systemic and embedded in our institutions, but despite the fact that this decades-old framework is mostly found in institutions of higher learning, particularly law classrooms, conservatives in Colorado and across the nation have been convinced that it’s being “forced” on their kindergarteners, sowing division and “teaching our children to hate each other.”

That brings us to last week’s Cherry Creek School Board meeting, where parents raised alarm about CRT despite Cherry Creek school officials’ assurances that they are not teaching CRT in their classrooms.

Among them were members of a well-known local right-wing militia group that’s led by a former Marine who praised the shooting of Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

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