A man appointed to the Minnesota State Department of Education called for the United States to be “overthrown” in a resurfaced video from two years ago.
Brian Lozenski, Ph.D., an associate professor of urban and multicultural education in the Education Studies Department at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, was appointed to the state’s education department by Governor Tim Walz.
“We don’t use critical race theory in school,” Lozenski said in the video. “The first tenet of critical race theory is that the United States, as constructed, is irreversibly racist. So, if the nation state, as constructed, is irreversibly racist, then it must be done with. It must be overthrown.”
“We can be like, ‘Oh no, critical race theory is just about telling our stories and diversity,’” he added. “It’s not about that. It’s about overgrowth. It is insurgent.”
“You can’t be a critical race theorist and be pro-U.S.,” Lozenski said. “It is an anti-state theory that says the United States needs to be deconstructed.”
Teacher licensing rules in the state of Minnesota require educators to affirm values contrary to the Christian faith.
Beginning July 2025, teacher licensing applicants will be required to “affirm transgenderism and race Marxism,” according to a report from The Federalist.
According to the requirements, teachers are to foster an “environment that ensures student identities such as race/ethnicity, national origin, language, sex and gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical/developmental/emotional ability, socioeconomic class, and religious beliefs are historically and socially contextualized, affirmed, and incorporated into a learning environment where students are empowered to learn and contribute as their whole selves.”
The report added that those faithful to Christianity “cannot in good conscience ‘affirm’ non-heterosexual sexual orientations and gender identities.”
