If you want to understand the dilemma of today’s Democratic Party, have a look at this comic book called Racial Capitalism and Prison Abolition.
Thanks to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, this comic book, or its close equivalent, will soon be forced on Minnesota’s students. Because Walz has just added an “ethnic studies” strand to his state’s social studies standards, all Minnesota schoolchildren must shortly be exposed to a “discipline” that is essentially a cousin of CRT. As part of their mandatory ethnic-studies training, Minnesota’s students are going to have to “develop an analysis of racial capitalism,” an abstruse concept created by theorists of “black Marxism.”
The idea of “racial capitalism” is breathtakingly radical. It delegitimates America’s . . .
