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Radio host Ty Smith slams critical race theory at school meeting – ‘How do I have two medical degrees if I’m oppressed?’
A CONSERVATIVE radio host has hit out at critical race theory declaring "how do I have two medical degrees if I'm oppressed".
Ty Smith - host of Cancel This on Cities 92.9 and a popular YouTube presenter - was cheered as he let rip at an Illinois school meeting saying CRT breeds hate amongst kids.
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maintains that many legal institutions in the United States are "inherently racist."
Those that back it, say the institutions "function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans."
The Bloomington Public School area, District 87, does not teach CRT and teachers insist they have no intention of introducing it.
However, at a board meeting on June 9 dozens of people holding signs saying 'No critical race theory' turned up alongside others wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts.
Father-of-two Smith told the meeting: "When you talk about critical race theory, which is pretty much going to be teaching kids how to hate each other, how to dislike each other.
"It's pretty much what its all gonna come down to," he added.
"You're going to deliberately teach kids: 'this white kid right here got it better than you because he's white' - and you're gonna tell a white kid: 'the black people are all down and suppressed.
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"How do I have two medical degrees if I'm sitting here oppressed?," he then pointed out.
Smith continued: "Not one white person ever came to me and said: 'Well son, you're not going to get anywhere.
"Black folks are getting told by other black folks: 'you're never going to be able to get out there in the world because white folks are never going to let you get anywhere, the white man is going to keep you down.
"How did I get where I am right now if some white man kept me down?"
Smith said he feared CRT could even "reverse" Martin Luther King's aim that people should be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.
Diane Wolf, the head of curriculum for District 87, agreed with Smith adding she also believed it was not appropriate for lessons.
"We're at the very beginning stages of truly getting to a curriculum that is representative of our student body and our community," she said, reported .
Smith's YouTube channel - Modern Renaissance Man - says it offers a mix of comedy, ministry, marriage counseling, relationship discussions, motivation and self help.
It has so far garnered more than 58 million views and states the host was born in Decatur, Illinois, and grew up in a tough neighborhood.
A clip of Smith's words were shared by Benny Johnson, chief creative officer of conservative student organization Turning Point USA.
Ted Cruz, the senator for Texas, later retweeted the post adding the comment: "Powerful".
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Smith appeared on Fox News on Friday to back up what he said in his speech claiming 80 per cent of black people supported him.
"To me it's a whole bunch of nonsense, virtue signaling, just trying to play off people's emotion. The only race there is the human race," he said.
"Color was never discussed in my house, at all. As children grow, they just see other kids and start playing.
"My sons never had a talk about white people, Asian people - all they know is they were people. They never came home and said: 'my white friends across the street' - they just said 'my friends'.
"The fact that they want to focus so much on race, why does everything have to be about race?
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"Coming from the ghetto, coming from the 'hood and the projects, they've seen me come out of it, so they're supportive."
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However, not everybody was impressed with Smith's stance with some quick to point out he was was an active Trump supporter who was a guest of honor at one of the former president's rallies in October.
Later that month he posted a photo to Instagram with the conservative commentator Candace Owens, which was taken at the White House.
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