Loudoun County parent Ian Prior and Red Renaissance President Kim Klacik discuss the controversy over critical race theory being pushed in schools. Equal opportunity for all. Judging people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin. Diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. These are principles that we as Americans and Virginians should live by and teach our children. It is a philosophy of thought and action that moves humanity forward to a place where cooperation, meritocracy, and compassion will make the world a better place for all. Unfortunately, what is happening in Virginia’s schools is threatening those goals. We are talking about critical race theory or CRT which stands for the ideology that everything must be evaluated through the lens of race in order to break down systemic bias in our culture, words, and institutions.