Rockford Sun

Winnebago County Republican Party leaders aren't planning to take critical race theory (CRT) teachings lying down.

“Fighting back against racism,” the Winnebago County GOP recently posted on Facebook in reaction to the debate that is now raging across much of the country.

According to Britannica, CRT is an "intellectual movement and loosely organized framework of legal analysis based on the premise that race is not a natural, biologically grounded feature of physically distinct subgroups of human beings but a socially constructed (culturally invented) category that is used to oppress and exploit people of colour."

Critics of the system charge that it discriminates against whites and promotes segregation. The academic theory that argues racism has been embedded in systems and policies across the country has been around now for more than five decades.

State Rep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) recently called on Illinois residents to take a stance against Evanston-Skokie District 65 after drama teacher Stacy Deemar filed suit in federal court charging the teachings are divisive and perpetuate harmful racial stereotypes.

“It will take more than just one teacher standing up to the radical left who are pushing their agenda in our schools,” Caulkins posted on Facebook. "What are you doing?”

Deemar is being aided in her fight by the Southeast Legal Foundation. The legal coalition is now working to get CRT teachings and instruction struck down in the Supreme Court, Fox News reported.

As part of her filing, Deemar further alleges District 65 school officials divided teachers based on their race and directed teachers to read a book titled “Not my Idea” to their students. In the story, the devil makes a “Contract Binding you to Whiteness” where the main character will receive “stolen land,” “stolen riches,” and “special favors.”

While requesting just $1 in damages, Deemar’s suit seeks a declaratory judgment and injunction that would immediately mean an end to CRT teachings.

As the debate rages on, Winnebago County officials were recently forced to remove a meme from its Facebook page that some considered racist. The meme shows a picture of a white man above a list of seven "warning signs of WHITE SUPREMACY," including such things as full time employment, literacy, auto insurance, good credit rating and no criminal record.