Should we be teaching Critical Race Theory in our military universities and perhaps in our leadership courses?

No my friend SGT Jose Perdelia-Torres the USA should not be funding Critical Race Theory philosophy in military colleges, leadership courses or the military service academies including the Merchant Marine Academy.
Caveat I am a USMA graduate from the class of 1980.
1. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is Marxist in origin and according with Marxist constructs it seeks to restructure society in accordance with its principles.
2. CRT attempts to rewrite history, economics, achievement, etc.
3. As a student of history for over half a century, I am saddened and sickened by all attempts to rewrite history from a 'modern' perspective. History is best understood through an understanding of the mores, economic principles, technology, manufacturing and scientific social and military structure
Background from {[/criticalrace.org/what-is-critical-race-theory/]}
CRT is an 'outgrowth of the European Marxist school of critical theory, critical race theory is an academic movement which seeks to link racism, race, and power.'
"Unlike the Civil Rights movement, which sought to work within the structures of American democracy, critical race theorists challenge the very foundations of the liberal order, such as rationalism, constitutional law, and legal reasoning. Critical race theorists argue that American social life, political structures, and economic systems are founded upon race, which (in their view) is a social construct.
Systemic racism, in the eyes of critical race theorists, stems from the dominance of race in American life. Critical race theorists and anti-racist advocates argue that, because race is a predominant part of American life, racism itself has become internalized into the American conscience. It is because of this, they argue, that there have been significantly different legal and economic outcomes between different racial groups."
I concur with the well-reasoned responses of my friends PVT Mark Whitcomb SSG Roger Ayscue SSG Edward Tilton LTC Orlando Illi LTC David Brown MAJ Ron Peery Cpl Mark A. Morris Lt Col Jim Coe 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel
As well the responses of SFC Eric Harmon Sgt James Dare and SPC Lyle Montgomery
FYI MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. LTC (Join to see) LTC Greg Henning SPC Woody Bullard SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Lt Col Charlie Brown GySgt Jack Wallace

Not being able to respond to your question if on Active Duty without repercussions, just proves how fucked up this country is. And Rally Point is just another Bull Shit leftist website. These marxists have taken over. In the past 50 years or so they have been indoctrinating children through the education system while their parents were out trying to make a living. They used to be hidden, tucked away. And then along came Obama. He opened the door and they came out of hiding. Hell, today they are as open as can be about their agenda. Like Obama said, The United States will be TRANSFORMED. I would hate to serve on Active Duty in this time. When I served you couldn't join with a mental illness. Now, the government allows mental illness to join. Yay!!! Now the government will pay for my sex change. Actually the taxpayer pays for the sex change and all the life long medication. What a Joke!

CRT has no place being taught to our soldiers, sailors and airmen. It is divisive in its nature and promotes the idea that the very structure of our nation in all aspects is racist. Our service members need to be working as a team of people that can work with each other without animosities, anger and generally, feelings that would be detrimental to the efficient execution of the American military's mission.

The U.S. Military is not thew place for social experimentation. I have said this on many occasions and I stick to it. It's not the place for transgenderism (Another subject and while I have nothing against those of transgender as people I do have a problem with them in the military.) It's certainly not the place to teach THEORIES of racial inequality to a group of men and women that are supposed to be looking past race and only worrying about the color of their combined blood. It does not promote a desire to defend the nation as a team when you are teaching a THEORY that the very structure of that nation should be torn down to its foundations to be rebuilt into something else. What that is to be is maybe purposefully left to the imagination of all, but there certainly hasn't been any sort of suggested solution beyond the destruction of what is currently there, leading anyone with two brain cells to rub together to the conclusion that the goal would be pure chaos. This shows me that it does not deserve to be taken seriously, let alone wasting our service members time by teaching it to them as if it were a fact and driving divisive ideologies into our fighting force.

Beyond that it also bears mentioning that the very way it is presented in every situation I have seen it, it appears to be nothing more than a rip off of the Communist Manifesto but without any real portion of it being presented as a realistic solution. All one need do is replace Bourgeoisie with White and Proletariat with Black. I say this in the aspect that CRT simply breaks our society down to that. White = Oppressor, Black = Oppressed. I reject this premise in modern America as being patently false, especially when applied to the sub-society of U.S. Military life. Not to mention I have a major issue with something that shares ideology with Marxism communism being included in the training regimen of our service members in any other capacity than being shown as a hostile ideology in conflict with those of the United States and the capitalist socioeconomic system that has been proven to be successful for our nation that we have all sworn to defend.

I'm not saying racism does not exist in this nation. It does. It has and it always will no matter how much effort you put forth to try and crush it. In fact, the more you try to crush it with stupid, over the top woke-ism and half-baked theories such as CRT you will invariably, if not inadvertently, create more racism where it may not have previously existed. This is one of the reasons it has no place being taught to our military service members.

When you continuously drill into someone that they are a particular thing they will eventually begin to believe it. Our military by its nature is indoctrination from the very first day you step off the bus on your first day of attending basic training you are being indoctrinated and for a large part continues throughout your military career, however long that may last. That indoctrination is supposed to be that of being a team and part of something larger than yourself, loving your fellow service members enough to fight and make sacrifices for each other to fight and win America's conflicts. To be able to do things most civilians would not be able or even willing to do in order to ensure the survival of this nation under our laws and our constitution from all threats foreign and domestic. In short, selfless service and sacrifice to this nation. This CANNOT be done while also teaching this theory that the structure of the nation isn't worth saving and that our White service members, by the nature of the color of their skin are naturally oppressive to those service members with darker skin. This does not strike me as the way to develop cohesive team members. Call me old fashioned. No matter how you feel about the validity of the theory, it has NO PLACE being taught to our service members and is counter-productive to the mission of the military. It is divisive in its nature and can serve no good purpose to being taught to our troops.

As basic training and military careers are in fact an indoctrination into the military mind set and mission in and of itself, there are those that wish to make CRT a part of that indoctrination in order to further the propagation of this theory into our culture and to change the face of our military into one of social justice rather than that of its actual mission of fighting and winning our battles.

I will also say, I served in the military from 1988 to 2001 before being medically discharged. I served with some of the finest people from all walks of life. All colors, creeds, religious and ethnic backgrounds. Very rarely did I encounter racially driven issues. I have had minority subordinates, commanders, team chiefs, platoon sergeants, first sergeants and command sergeants major. All professionals and very successful in their careers. The U.S. Military has some of the best structures and systems in place to ensure equality of opportunity across all of its members and is more successful in this endeavor than any other organization within this country if not in the world.

CRT is the last thing this military needs and needs to be purged from any training programs that exist.

Yes, CRT should be taught. This is CRT in a nutshell: When one race uses legal means to suppress another race.

It is not the Boogey Man the right makes it out to be however. Russia, China, Europe, and just about every empire that existed on this earth used legal means to suppress the freedoms of minorities. And hell yes, us democrats were hugely responsible for a lot of it back in the day. However, our party CHANGED. We are no longer the Antebellum South. You know who is down there now. The democrats who couldn't change their views on using law to suppress minorities BECAME REPUBLICANS. The conversion of sothern democrats to republicans BECAUSE of the 1964 Civil Rights Act proves my point.

No! Not only no, but hell no! Do not teach a system of thinking that divides people based on skin color. The DoD spent over 40 years teaching its members just the opposite. We must foster equal opportunity and treatment with teamwork. Dividing up by race, gender, religion will hurt readiness and service members themselves

It is racist, period

SGT Jose Perdelia-Torres The truth will set you free... what are they afraid of?

Of course, it will divide our nation and create a common enemy. That way, we can judge each other by color rather than action.
Let’s not stop there. If we can create even more chaos at the US southern border, we can help the Cartels earn huge amounts of money off of the poor and drugs.
Yes Sir, creating misery and hardship while throwing a few bucks to the poor will get us one party rule.
Then, we can turn our attention to those evil unwash Americans. Especially those armed to the teeth Red Neck Nationalists. They are soooo 20th century.

CRT should never be taught in any institution unless you want this country to be turned into a communist country.

It is nakedly a Marxist approach to the issue of race and tearing down Western culture. I recommend Glenn Lowrey on Subsplash…..which I shared on Facebook. I an trying to figure out how to share it here.