Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made a big production on Tuesday about how wrong it is that childrens books promoting anti-racism are being taught at a private school in Washington, D.C., where Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson is a board member.
During Jacksons confirmation hearing, Cruz propped up posters featuring blown-up images from some of these books and held up individual copies of them. One of the books he singled out was Antiracist Baby by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.
This book is one of the most stunning taught at Georgetown Day School, Cruz said, holding up a copy. He lamented that it teaches children that babies are taught to be racist, not born racist, and that they are encouraged to admit if they have been racist and to talk about it.
Do you agree that babies are racist? Cruz asked Jackson. (Jackson said she didnt know the book and had no say over what books were taught at Georgetown Day School, the first integrated school in the nations capital.)
But Cruzs efforts to smear the book, which he falsely claimed brainwashes children about a law school-level academic discipline known as critical race theory, may have had the opposite of his intended effect.
As of Tuesday night, Antiracist Baby, which came out two years ago, is currently one of the bestselling childrens books on Amazon in multiple categories, including the bestselling childrens book on prejudice and racism.
Heres a Wednesday screenshot from Amazons website, which updates stats on its bestselling books on an hourly basis:
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