In an exclusive story published last week, National Review found a 2022 YouTube video featuring ethnic studies professor Brian Lozenski. In the video, which Lozenski published two years ago to promote his book, the professor openly states he supports overthrowing the United States because of its racist founding.
“The first tenet of Critical Race Theory is that the United States as constructed is irreversibly racist,” Lozenski (pictured at left) states. “So if the nation-state as constructed is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with. It must be overthrown.”
National Review writer Stanley Kurtz reported on Lozesnki’s comments because the professor has become a prominent figure in Minnesota public education. Gov. Walz appointed Lozenski to a state-level position to oversee public school curriculum, in particular an "ethnic studies" unit that falls under the state's social studies lessons.
According to Kurtz, the Minnesota Department of Education was supposed to release the ethnic studies standard for public comment in early August but that date got moved to late September. That date got dropped, too, and Kurtz suspects it won’t be released at all because of Gov. Walz and the Nov. 5 presidential election.
Critical Race Theory, often shortened to CRT, is a Marxist-inspired idea that originated with black academic scholars. It suggests America is a racist society dominated by racist whites, who use their white-dominated power to maintain power over powerless minorities.
More importantly, Critical Race Theory is also a tenet of Critical Theory, a class-based Marxist theory which makes the same claims of power and injustice about the wealthy. Academics simply swapped race for class when CRT was first introduced in the 1970s.
Buzzwords such as “white privilege” and "equity" and "oppressor” and “colonialism” are routinely mentioned in CRT discussions.
Terris Todd, of Project 21, tells AFN what was once a radical theory shared by Marxist professors has been happily adopted by schools, corporations, and government agencies.
“They’ve literally taken a theory and now they made it practice,” he warns. “They made it their belief system and wrapped their whole agenda up into that to now act upon it.”
Back in his book promotion video, Lozenski makes both a confession and criticism about Critical Race Theory. It cannot be taught accurately and honestly in schools, he says, because CRT is about a revolution against the racist United States, not simply promoting diversity.
“It’s not about that. It’s about overthrow. It’s insurgent,” the profess advises. “And we, we need to be, I think, more honest with that.”
Kurtz’s story helped Lozenski spread that honesty until the video was yanked from YouTube after the NRO story published.
