Critical race theory is as racist as 'the Klansman in white sheets': Ted Cruz

The Texas Republican took the stage at the Faith and Freedom Foundation’s Road to the Majority conference where he took critical race theory head on, recalling a reporter who tried to “gotcha” the senator about “what is critical race theory.”

"I explained to him and I said, ‘Well, it’s a theory that derives from Marxism. Carl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat," Cruz said. "A fundamental battle in society." "Critical race theory takes that same Marxist concept except it replaces ‘class’ with ‘race,’" he continued. "And it says all of America and all of the world is a battle between the races."