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

I am not fully cognizant of what CRT curriculum is all about. I support education of any kind and learning all history. We all need to be aware of everything that happened in the past, both recent and distant. But that's where I'd draw the line. We need to be aware of it and learn from it, without trying to place blame on people who had nothing to do with it. My ancestors may have owned slaves (I have no idea if they did or not), but that doesn't make me a racist. The danger I foresee with any CRT education is if it's used to make any race feel inferior for the deeds of their ancestors. Another thing is that people have to realize that when slavery was an issue, it was the accepted practice of the land. A totally wrong practice, but accepted none the less. When taught, this point must be made. Just like at one time, women were considered inferior and not permitted to do many things (voting, smoking, wearing pants, etc.). Wrong? Yes, but the accepted practice at the time. We have to be careful when treading into CRT territory. Doing it the wrong way will cause more harm than good.

Perhaps as a Sociology requirement or elective.

The fact is that many of our institutions have been designed by THE MAN and are tilted in his favor. but you really don't need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows, let alone a course of study. Given the progress in this country that we've seen since over the past 50 years, hopefully, in a generation or two, CRT will become as quaint as classifying everything into the 5 elements. CRT is merely a symptom of the times: an awareness or statement that the deck has been stacked against the black, brown and poor people of this country and that NOW is the time to correct this.

More important is to hold true to the promise in the armed services that there is equal opportunity for all, and that anyone can rise to the top solely on the nature of their character and abilities.

Anything that finds its way into military or civilian academia needs to be broadly analyzed and peered. Once the material is proven to be beneficial to the development of the identified office then it has to be matriculated through that each academic chain responsible for the delivery of the material can place it into the appropriate delivery format.

Bottom line there must be an identified need, in this case with the military, if so, so be it.

Sage advice Sargent, thank you!

To paraphrase Adolf Hitler, the bigger lie you tell, the more people believe it.
Our history and government have been just fine so far, with only a few small adjustments.
If it's working, don't fix it.
Of course we've had our faults, but we are still the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

Absolutely not, race religion and politics should not be discussed, see when I joined that was one thing we were told was not an acceptable topic to bring up, so why should it be acceptable to talk about now, beacsue the democrats wanna poison the mind of young people and make everyone feel bad about they're history and they're race?? I say no keep the crap out of the military.

I am all for looking at different points of view, and if they teach CRT and not make it a mandatory course, I would be all for it. I think teaching it as a curriculum in classes below college is wrong especially in grammar school and high school. The progressive way is to teach it from early age and not to present another point of view and that is wrong. This also pertains to the so called "1619" garbage.

Teach the historical truths of the past. However, don't dwell on it. Dwell on the fact everyone should have an equal opportunity. The right has made a mockery of CRT. They act offended by history when it is the black people who were enslaved who should be offended by history. DeSantis and Florida went so far to mitigate history by saying the slaves were taught valuable trades. That is a mockery and bastardization of history. White people are now victims of the past. hahahaha

Simple answer, "Hell NO!" When I was active duty and had under my command white, black, Hispanic, Filipino, Fijian, Catholic, Christian, Jewish, Muslim enlisted. I did not care about the color of skin or religious preference. I cared about dedication to duty and work ethic. This bullshit CRT teaching that one should be ashamed to be born a certain color is in itself racist. Just treat everyone with respect and get the job done.

As a veteran and I/O psychologist, why not? There was something I learned when deployed from a friend that was a green beret. He said to me how can we help those we are here for if we don't understand the language or culture. Of course with me being 19 at the time it opened my mind and he taught me some words thst I would say to the individuals feeding the troops. There is nothing wrong with having better thought processes or understand how things are and how we got to this situation. I think in the end it supports the general orders of not following an unlawful order because he learn a different type of reasoning. So yes. Why not!