Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at her Supreme Court hearing, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ran away from critical race theory as fast as possible. Her record says otherwise, however. The candidate’s past embrace of some of critical race theory’s leading proponents is concerning, and shows that she has so far gotten off easy during her hearing.
The judge’s interest in critical race theory began early. Her parents, Jackson said in a 2020 speech at the University of Michigan Law School, prominently kept a copy of “Faces at the Bottom of the Well,” a book by Derrick Bell, long recognized as the godfather of critical race theory.
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In her exchange with Cruz, Jackson insisted that she had never studied critical race theory. “It wouldn’t be something that I would rely on if I was on the Supreme Court,” Jackson said to Cruz.
In 2015, however, Jackson said that she tries to convince her students that sentencing “melds together myriad types of law,” including “administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory,” etc.
Jackson also has closer ties to critical race theory. When Cruz asked Jackson whether critical race theory was taught in schools, she responded, “I don’t think so. I believe it is an academic theory that is taught at the law school level.”
That is in itself a red herring. As we never tire of pointing out, even if critical race theory is not assigned to K-12 students, it is likely applied, such as, for example, when teachers and trainers force students to perform “anti-racism” trainings that separate them by race or ethnicity.
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Jackson indeed serves on the board of an elite Washington, D.C., private school that teaches critical race theory, Georgetown Day School, and whose curriculum she has supported. She was quoted as saying in the 2019/2020 winter edition of the school’s magazine:
Since becoming part of the GDS community seven years ago, Patrick [her husband] and I have witnessed the transformative power of a rigorous progressive education that is dedicated to fostering critical thinking, independence, and social justice.
The school’s recommended readings include writings by two of critical race theory’s main scholars, Richard Delgado and Kimberle Crenshaw, and one of critical race theory’s main practitioners, Ibram X. Kendi.
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Critical race theory is an ideology whose foundational idea is that racism in America is systemic, that our society is oppressive, that racial identity reigns supreme, and, more worryingly for a prospective justice, that government must pursue race-conscious policies.
This puts in context why, in the same Michigan speech, Jackson praised the “acclaimed investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones” and “her provocative thesis that the America that was born in 1776 was not the perfect union that it purported to be.”
Hannah-Jones, the architect of the 1619 Project, is a fabulist whose revisionist attempt to change America’s origin story from 1776 to 1619, when African slaves first arrived on the English colonies, has been debunked by historians.
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