The United States Army is teaching critical race theory to cadets at its prestigious West Point Academy, newly obtained training materials reveal. 
The documents, obtained by  from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, show that the Army's future leadership is being taught to acknowledge its 'whiteness' and 'privilege,' and to answer training questions through the lens of critical race theory. 
Judicial Watch had to sue the US [url=https://data.gov.uk/data/search?q=military]military under the Freedom of Information Act twice before the training slides were released, according to Fox News. 
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, characterized the racial training materials as 'anti-American' and 'propaganda.'
'Our military is under attack - from within,' Fitton said in a release. 'These documents show racist, anti-American CRT propaganda is being used to try to radicalize our rising generation of Army leadership at West Point.' 





A slide from the training materials providing a definition of critical race theory to West Point cadets






A slide from the training in which cadets are asked to consider what W.E.B. Du Bois would think of the movie Barbershop






A page from the training materials showing the difference between black and white opportunities in America

 In other sections, cadets are asked to apply critical race theory to scenarios: 
'Do you think Affirmative Action creates an environment for 'reverse discrimination?' Use CRT to support your answer,' one reads. 
Another says, 'What is the difference between desegregation versus integration? How would you apply a tenant of CRT to this idea?'





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The materials inform cadets that white people 'have primarily benefited from civil rights legislation,' and talk about 'Modern Day Slavery in the USA.'   
In another section, cadets are asked the questions 'What would W.E.B. Du Bois think of Barbershop?' referring to the Ice Cube movie about a black owned barbershop in southern Chicago.
One section even evokes Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx to explain that capitalism creates social structures in which the less-fortunate people are exploited.





US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Neither he nor the Department of Defense have commented on the release of the West Point training materials













The Department of Defense has not commented on the materials, nor has the office of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. 
Critical race theory - the idea that racism is so baked into the foundational systems of American equality that they end up benefiting whites at the expense of blacks - has been an increasingly controversial issue as its role in the American education system is debated. 
Progressives have argued that it should be taught to all Americans and taught early, while conservatives have vehemently argued that it is anti-American and should be banned. 
Some have argued that it has no place in the American military, as it teaches soldiers that the constitution they are sworn to defend is inherently racist.
President Trump founded a commission seeking to ban critical race theory from schools in January, 2021, but it was revoked by President Biden just two days later on his first day in office. 





A slide from the released training materials in which West Point cadets are taught what inclusion means




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