I got my start with Jack and Jill, and over time gradually progressed to reading the stuff I write about on this blog and a lot more.
I’m not sure Ted Cruz made it up the hill, but I doubt he’s read Anti-Racist Baby — he either didn’t bother, or can’t.
Ted claims the book “brainwashes children about a law school-level academic discipline known as critical race theory.” This, of course, sent people racing to their Amazon accounts to buy the book (see story here).
Sales are soaring. That isn’t what Ted intended.
Republicans are making it glaringly clear they don’t like anyone talking about racial equality, least of all in the presence of impressionable young minds, probably because they’re so bad at it.
If you’re wondering what this has to do with anything, as Huffington Post explains (here), Ted is making “a big production … about how wrong it is that children’s books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member.”
That’s how desperate Republicans are for talking points against her.
As for Ted, I doubt he reads.
Related story: Lacking any valid reason to opose Jackson’s nomination, Republicans “are going full hypocrisy,” Mother Jones says (read their article here).