Last Updated on September 15, 2020
A bombshell report released yesterday reveals that, despite President Donald Trump’s ban on critical race theory being used in federal government training materials, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention intended to ignore the president’s orders and continue teaching the controversial materials to those who want to work in the government agency.
On Monday, policy researcher Christopher Rufo posted several documents he obtained revealing that the CDC planned to defy President Trump’s orders with a “13-week series” referred to as “Naming, Measuring, and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation and the World.”
The documents specifically refer to the “mechanisms of systemic racism” and pushes the debunked myth that black Americans are hunted and killed by police officers, specifically how the so-called “mechanisms” result in “police killings of unarmed Black and Brown men and women.”
The CDC training material also claims that, in the United states, racism is a “public health crisis” that demands CDC employees ready themselves to “address institutionalized racism” to “really set things right” in the United States.
The 13-week series is called "Naming, Measuring, and Addressing the Impacts of Racism on the Health and Well-Being of the Nation and the World." I have obtained the internal emails (in white) and an APHA presentation by the series instructor that follows same structure (in blue). pic.twitter.com/qxB6tRWzFc
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 14, 2020
In sessions 6 through 9, the CDC claims that "racism is a public health crisis" and that "systemic racism" leads to "police killings of unarmed Black and Brown men and women" and leads to "the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color." pic.twitter.com/Fl1nJcTuW8
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 14, 2020
Many pundits seemed shocked that the CDC, which is receiving more attention than usual due to nonstop news coverage of COVID-19, would defy President Trump so openly when the organization is under a microscope from national news and the federal government.
However, this morning Russ Vought, the Trump administration’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, revealed that since the bombshell release of the documents, the administration has taken the initiative to see the training cancelled.
“Glad to report, per @POTUS’s directive,” wrote Vought, “This training is being cancelled immediately.”
Glad to report, per @POTUS’s directive, this training is being cancelled immediately. https://t.co/5Fd9ynKYtQ
— Russ Vought (@RussVought45) September 15, 2020
President Trump banned the use of critical race theory in federal government training materials earlier this month, in a move that was widely celebrated by conservatives and panned by mainstream Democrats.
According to Breitbart, “Critical race theory is the leftist, racist doctrine that forms the intellectual underpinnings of Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other radical organizations currently engaged in unrest on America’s streets,” and “It alleges, among other things, that the United States is a white supremacist country, and that all white people are guilty of racism, whether they intend it or not.”
