Tim Walz fights “racial capitalism”

Whatever that is. The comical Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is running for President in 2028, but as the National Review‘s Stanley Kurtz reports, Walz has some explaining to do back in Minnesota.

Kurtz reports that under Walz’s direction, the state is adopting an “ethic studies” component in the state’s K-12 academic curricula. It sounds benign enough.

However, Kurtz quotes my friend Kathy Kersten (also of the Center of the American Experiment) on the true purpose of the exercise, in that “it shifts the mission of public education from academic instruction to political activism.”

The bulk of Kurtz’s article sits behind an NR paywall, but you can read Kersten’s full analysis of Minnesota’s brand of ethnic studies here.

So, Minnesota’s tots will soon be exposed to some weighty and radical concepts including “racial capitalism,” “Black Marxism,” “fugitivity,” and “indigeneity,” among others. The children will hear calls for “prison abolition,” and “activism and resistance,” all at taxpayer expense.

The days of the three R’s (reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic) are long gone.