Cobb Reporter

School districts in Georgia are pushing back against Critical Race Theory, going so far as to ban it, and are benefitting in this fight with the help of Citizens for Renewing America. 

The Cobb County School Board joined neighboring Cherokee County Schools in banning the teaching of Critical Race Theory and the New York Times’ 1619 project in Cobb County Schools in a 4-3 vote. All four Republicans voted in favor of the measure, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.

East Cobb parent Pamela Reardon praised the School Board’s decision, saying that Critical Race Theory teaches white children that they are inherently racist due to the color of their skin, the AJC said. 

On the other hand, Democrat Board Member, Jaha Howell, feels very differently about the theory.

Democrat Board Member Jaha Howell said the decision was a "pampering of white supremacist ideology," though the resolution explicitly bans the teaching that people are inherently superior due to their race, the AJC reported.

Hoping to emulate local successes in opposition to CRT like the Cobb County School Board decision, the guide defines Critical Race Theory as an ideology that “divides society up into groups based on race, ethnicity, sexual preference, religion, disability status, and gender, and then requires a view of society based on which groups it is divided into.” CRT specifically targets “straight white people (especially men)” as “the oppressors,” who “have systematically rigged society for their own benefit: whether the education system, the economic system, or the transportation system, all of society is rigged for the benefit of straight white men,” Citizens Renewing America said.

Citizens Renewing America has released a 33-page handbook for communities that are attempting to push back against CRT, outlining their concerns with it. 

“We think of our work as win the national debate, educate at a national level, and, as you have a national debate on the issue, you will have an outpouring of legislative activity at the county level, the school board level, the state legislature level and who knows, we may have a leverage point to get something done at the federal level," the group’s founder, Chris Vought, told Fox News.