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

Political indoctrination has no place in a free nation, especially when it has no basis in facts.

No. It's just a leftist scam to allow radical leftist instructors to our service members' young minds and brainwash and divide our military, literally, into armed camps; to get them all angry at each other and lose focus on why they serve there in the first place.

I thought we where all green

Not just no, but HELL NO! I'll qualify that by saying I have a PhD in Sociology. I was trained as a research scientist at with a concentration in social theory. CRT is not a testable "theory" it is propoganda derived from the musings of a psychologist name Sue.

CRT does not belong in our military. I came in the military in the early 1980s and still serving. I remember when I saw Confederate flags in the barracks and the reasons was due to Southern Pride and the Dukes of Hazzard. The Marines I served with (I been in the Army for most of my career), that cherished a Confederate flag will back up in Marine of any color and stripe. In 1990, I was involved in a racial fight at the e-club at Quantico between Black and Hispanic Marines; so the notion that racism only goes from whites to minorities is a fallacy. I had Black Marines called me wetback and I told them I was Puerto Rican from Spanish Harlem and they jumped me anyway because I was dancing with a black woman. And being from Spanish Harlem and the South Bronx, racial slurs were common but did not mean that person was racist. That was the culture. I went to a nearly all Black HS in Harlem and again, no problem back then and no concern of white supremacy (which was called White Nationalism back then). I remember in the 1980s, when blacks said they were going down to Time Square to rob some whites (that activity will heavily be attempted to be censored in our news organizations now and days. What I see now in our military is a political party that currently holds the majority in Congress, Hollywood and our education institutions using CRT and Extremism to align with left-wing ideology and if you do not now tow that line, you may be ostracized for doing so. I believe anything that has a political agenda to it should not be a part of our military culture. We are simply warriors that serve to defend our Constitution and to be apolitical. If anything, bring back civics and to study the Constitution as our instruction.

CRT is a construct of the right. I believe that it is used to justify systemic racism. In the mid 19th century we legislated slaves as 3/5th of a person. Today we see all people as equal, or we say that all are equal. I think that we are doing better as a nation but we need to keep trying.

No.

I wouldn't normally respond to such a long dead thread, strangely however, I was sent a link to it only 11 hours ago. The short answer is NO. No we should not. It's illogical, counter-intuitive and divisive.

You should be teaching your troops three things , how to shoot , how to scoot and how to communicate that what they need to survive , the rest is just political bullshit and at this point in time is designed to turn the force into a social welfare establishment , not a war fighting and winning organization.

I say "YES". My reasoning goes back to my first active duty assignment in Yongsan, Korea in late 1972. As a court-reporter, my duties caused some exemption from normal tasks for lower enlisted, such as KP duties, but there was a discussion about CQ duties. While that discussion was going on, a caucasian E-6 says to me. Pvt Taylor, do you want to know how we discriminate in assigning these duties to soldiers without anyone actually noticing? I asked "how?" He explains that it's by the name, and he began to say names like, Smith, White, Black, Jones, etc, would normally cover blacks although it may not exclude all whites. He proceeded to tell me that the names ending in "..gues or ...opez, mostly names ending in ..ez' would be Hispanic, he indicated the "...ski" was indicative of Polish and further gave me a breakdown for Jews, Germans, etc. I must say, this was a surprise that he was even telling me, but it was more for the reason, "...and there's nothing you can do about it." I believed that this was also the means by which promotions would be granted or school attendance picks. In addition, within two months in Korea, while having lunch at the Yongsan Crossroads NCO Club, a little Korean and white mixed kid abound 4 years old was walking around the tables and when he came to me, I politely said "Hi, little one" and his response was to shout "Nigger" and point. I proceeded to chase that kid, but he reached his mother and I told her that that was wrong and that I would report her husband -- and none of the whites in charge cared. Where and how does a little half/Korean kid learn such words and when to apply it? Finally, just recently, it was on the news in Savannah, GA that a soldier from Ft Stewart harassed a black couple walking in his off-base neighborhood, asking them why were they there and that they didn't belong in that neighborhood. This is 2021, and this question is asked??? It's right up there with how to stop bad police officers from killing minorities indiscriminately; now that that fact can't be denied. Floyd was just visible, but the cries, pain and these types of actions have been going on for YEARS! Can someone ask the question, "Why don't you hear the cries and help to stop them?" I guess denial is always the first stage, so I should say, please ask more questions about this, to learn and to help end mass discrimination. Oh yeah, I'm a black female.