Ramaswamy: 'Secular religion' of critical race theory now taught in schools violates Civil Rights Act of 64

News that a New York author's anti-White “picture book” is being read or assigned in public schools a dozen states helps make the case that the “secular religion” of critical race theory is a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy claimed Tuesday.

Scholar Christopher Rufo published a list of school districts in Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Washington, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Montana, Oregon, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey and Maine that reportedly either recommend the reading to students or instruct teachers to read aloud. On "America Reports," host John Roberts described "Not My Idea" as a story of a young person seeing a police officer shoot a Black man on television and trying to make sense of what happened. The protagonist is told that being White is like having a pact with a Satan-like figure.