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Legal Activists Sue California School District for Banning Critical Race Theory


Public Counsel, a left-wing law firm, and the Ballard Spahr law firm are suing the school district in Temecula, California, in Riverside County, over a ban on the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT), alleging that the ban violates children’s civil rights.


Breitbart News, which was the first to bring the problem of CRT to public attention, noted in 2012 that it was seeping into left-wing education, starting with then-President Barack Obama, who taught the works of CRT pioneer Derrick Bell to law students.


CRT is a race-oriented philosophy that holds that American life and American institutions are deeply contaminated by racism.


As Breitbart News explained in 2021:

Critical Race Theory claims that all of our institutions — our government, our economy, our culture — are based on racial hierarchy, with whites on top and blacks at the bottom. Even things that look race-neutral are, on closer inspection, racist. The idea has its origins in something called Critical Theory, which Andrew Breitbart explained in his memoir, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!.

Breitbart News also noted:

Critical Race Theory holds that the United States is racist by design, because its Constitution and all of its other institutions emerged in a context where slavery was legal. According to the theory, the very institution of private property in the U.S. is corrupt because it was enshrined in a system that saw black people as chattels.

The State of Florida, under Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), banned CRT from public schools. Other states and school districts, including some in California, have followed suit — while Democrats, such as Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, have accused Republicans of suppressing history and propagating racist ideas.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

The Temecula Valley Unified School District faces litigation over a ban it enacted on critical race theory, taking the culture-war battle over classroom instruction about racism to state court. The suit filed Wednesday alleges that the Temecula board’s ban violates the California Constitution’s guarantee of a “fundamental right” to an education that protects students from racial discrimination. It also alleges that the ban violates state laws that set out mandatory learning standards that include discussions about racism, inequality and how past events are relevant in the present day. Critical race theory examines how racial inequality and racism are systemically embedded in American institutions.

The lawsuit could encourage similar efforts by left-wing organizations and activists throughout the country, the Times notes.



When asked by Breitbart News to describe “systemic racism” in 2020, then-Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said it was “racism that’s built into systems.”


Separately, the State of California is pressuring another Riverside County school district, in Chino Valley, where the school board adopted a policy requiring parents to be notified if children in the district change their genders.


Public Counsel defines itself as “a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy.” Ballad Spahr is a national law firm that does some pro bono work and champions the cause of “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” according to its website.

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