The 2017 book "The End of Policing" by Alex Vitale is now the #1 best seller in the government social policy category on Amazon, all thanks to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
During the Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday for President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Cruz brought up a number of books regarding critical race theory that are taught or recommended at Georgetown Day School, where the judge is a board member.
"Judge Jackson, all of us will agree that no one should be discriminated against because of race," Cruz said. "When you just testified a minute ago that you didn't know if critical race theory was taught in K-12, I will confess, I find that statement a little hard to reconcile with the public record. Because if you look at the Georgetown Day School's curriculum, it is filled and overflowing with critical race theory.
Cruz went on to pull out a pile of books and show them as examples to the Senate.
"That among the books that are either assigned or recommended, they include 'Critical Race Theory: An Introduction.' They include 'The End of Policing,' an advocacy for abolishing police. They include 'How to Be an Antiracist' by Ibram X. Kendi. They include literally stacks and stacks of books."
Vitale was both shocked and delighted that Cruz mentioned his book during the hearing, as he took to Twitter in response of the free publicity.
Vitale then issued a statement for media, saying, "While I'm honored to be included in Sen. Cruz's list of Critical Race Theory texts, this seems to be just another example of the Senator's intentional confusing of a specific school of legal scholarship and the broader effort to shed light on the nature of racism in America.
"I can only hope that the Senator's misguided efforts to suppress this history will backfire and inspire a generation of young people to seek out these ideas that are all too often absent in American schools."
By the end of the day on Tuesday, Vitale's book became a best-seller on Amazon.
Others online, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), called out Cruz for using "The End of Policing" as an example in his criticism of critical race theory.
"When you’re showing off the next book you want banned with the perfect edges and everything to underscore to everyone you haven’t actually read it," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.
Vitale even poked fun at Cruz for using his book as an example during the Senate hearing, saying "every purchase now comes with a vial of Ted Cruz tears."
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