Televangelist Pat Robertson says critical race theory is a ‘monstrous evil’

Televangelist Pat Robertson is generating controversy after calling critical race theory (CRT), an academic discipline that examines the effects of racism on legal and cultural institutions, a “monstrous evil” which encourages Black people to take the “whip handle” away from white people.

The 91-year-old Mr Robertson said on CBN’s 700 Club earlier this week that, according to his understanding of CRT, “people of colour have been oppressed by the white people and that white people begin to be racist by the time they’re 2 or 3 months old, and therefore the people of colour have to rise up and overtake their oppressors and then – having gotten the ‘whip handle,’ if I can use that term – then to instruct their white neighbours how to behave. Now that’s critical race theory.”

Mr Robertson has a history of making racist remarks, including implying that the Haitian revolution, where enslaved people overthrew their white French oppressors, was a “pact to the devil” which caused its devastating modern earthquakes, and calling Black Lives Matter “anti-God.”