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Across the country, parents may think Critical Race Theory is gone from classrooms, but it’s only changed names. In Minnesota, it’s been reborn as “Ethnic Studies,” a softer label for the same divisive, Marxist-inspired ideology. Ethics and Public Policy Center Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz calls it what it is: race-based neo-Marxism. Its goal isn’t unity or understanding—it’s to replace America’s system of government and civics with identity politics and grievance training.
In Minneapolis Public Schools, every student must now take at least one ethnic studies course. The curriculum teaches that capitalism and Western civilization are responsible for slavery, colonialism, and genocide. Students are sorted by race, guilt, and oppression, rather than taught academic excellence or shared American values.
Courses include African American, Latinx, Hmong, Somali, and American Indian Studies—but nothing for students of European descent. These classes frame white students as oppressors, while others are encouraged to view themselves as perpetual victims. In one section of Hmong Studies, capitalism is literally equated with slavery and war. The assigned readings? Ibram X. Kendi, Howard Zinn, and other far-left writers who openly reject America’s founding principles.
The “Intro to Ethnic Studies” course—worth college credit—claims to be an anti-racist tool, pushing ideas like “intersectionality,” “decolonizing education,” and “language justice.” Straight, white students are subjected to guilt sessions over “structural inequalities.” Gender and sexuality lessons are mixed in under the umbrella of “ethnic” studies—because, apparently, victimhood is now its own ethnicity.
This is not education. It’s activism training. It replaces history with propaganda and divides children into competing tribes of resentment, all while students fall further behind in reading and math.
Defending Education warns that Minneapolis is just the beginning. Similar curricula are spreading to Milwaukee, Denver, Boston, and California. The goal is nationwide adoption—a permanent cultural shift away from civic unity and toward perpetual revolution.
Parents, beware. This isn’t about learning other cultures—it’s about rewriting our own.
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