no, i don t. the whole idea about defunding the police and the whole crime issue happening across the country, i ve been saying, gosh, now for months even before they had all the candidates stacked up for mayor, as goes new york so goes the rest of the country. and so that the new york mayoral race was going to be a litmus test for the rest of the country. and it certainly has turned out to be that way. i tried to get the candidates on from the very beginning. it wasn t time for it because the rest of the country just was not interested in it, it wasn t close enough. but i knew this would be az said a litmus test for the rest of the country. and i think that this really exposed where democrats you say this is a democrat problem where democrats actually are on crime, where they are actually as a party. i think it exposed so much about the left and the rhetoric on the right. this one race in new york city, i believe, did that. you wind up having eric adams, who is a former cop,
and racism and discrimination and all the evils of our past and the evils that do continue on in society today shouldn t be taught. reporter: the audience took photographs of slides and diligent notes. when protesters shouted out during and after the event i have a dream! reporter: they were confronted with chants. when you do read a cabal of students want to learn about their american heritage, that s pretty tough language, and you can see someone being upset about that. what about the role of you all in this as well, making that more vitriolic? i would say, what would be a better way to frame that that gets the point across all serious this all is? reporter: raj attended the meeting and thought itself was racist. critical race theory is how
the evils that do continue on in society today shouldn t be taught. reporter: the audience took photographs of slides and diligent notes on her presentation. i have a question. reporter: when protesters shouted out during and after the event they were confronted with chants. when you do read a cabal of progressives want to rewrite how students learn about their american heritage, that s pretty tough language. and you can see someone being really upset about some of that. what about the role of you all in this as well, making it more vitriolic? i would say what would be a better way to frame that that gets the point across of how serious all of this. reporter: activist and educator raj sekiwaju attended the meeting and thought it was racist. critical race theory fundamentally asks the question where does our loss come from and how it is informed by our racialized practices. racist practices. why are we not questioning that?