One of many books which Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) displayed whereas questioning Supreme Courtroom nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson in regards to the educating of important race concept in colleges has seen a lift in gross sales on Amazon.

The Finish of Policing by Alex Vitale rose to the highest of Amazon's Authorities Social Coverage part after Cruz used it and different books to confront President Joe Biden's choose for Supreme Courtroom throughout Tuesday's listening to.

"Due to Ted Cruz, The Finish of Policing is now the #1 Greatest Vendor in Gov. Social Coverage," Vitale tweeted, sharing a screenshot of The Finish of Policing on the prime of the Amazon chart. "Each buy now comes with a vial of Ted Cruz tears."

Cruz held up The Finish of Policing, in addition to different books equivalent to Important Race Idea: An Introduction by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, and Antiracist Child by Ibram X. Kendi, to query Jackson in regards to the really helpful studying lists at Georgetown Day Faculty, the place she serves as a member of the board of trustees.

The Texas senator mentioned the books have been an instance of how the varsity's curriculum was "stuffed and overflowing" with important race concept. Whereas holding up a duplicate of The Finish of Policing, Cruz described the e-book as calling for an "finish of policing and advocacy for abolishing police."

In response to Amazon's description, Vitale makes an attempt within the e-book to reveal how regulation enforcement has "come to exacerbate the very issues it's supposed to unravel" and argues that fashionable policing has turn out to be a "device of social management."

In a earlier assertion, Vitale mentioned he was "honored" to have been included in Cruz's record of important race concept texts, earlier than including it appears to be one other instance of the senator's "intentional complicated of a selected college of authorized scholarship and the broader effort to make clear the character and historical past of racism in America."

Vitale added: "I can solely hope that the senator's misguided efforts to suppress this historical past will backfire and encourage a technology of younger individuals to hunt out these concepts which might be all too usually absent in American colleges."

New York Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez additionally criticized Cruz whereas tweeting a picture of him holding the e-book throughout Tuesday's listening to.

"While you're exhibiting off the subsequent e-book you need banned with the proper edges and all the things to underscore to everybody you have not truly learn it," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted.

In the course of the listening to, Cruz took specific difficulty with the illustrated e-book Antiracist Child, which argues that infants are "taught to be racist or antiracist—there is no neutrality."

When Cruz asks whether or not she agrees with the sentiment that infants are "taught to be racist" Jackson took a pause earlier than replying: "I don't imagine that any youngster needs to be made to really feel as if they're racist or although they aren't valued or although they're lower than, that they're victims, that they're oppressors, I do not imagine in any of that."

Jackson later dismissed Cruz's line of questioning about important race concept, saying the problem doesn't "come up in my work as a choose, which I'm—respectfully—right here to deal with."

Vitale has been contacted for remark.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds a duplicate of "The Finish of Policing" whereas questioning U.S. Supreme Courtroom nominee Choose Ketanji Brown Jackson on important race concept throughout her Senate Judiciary Committee affirmation listening to within the Hart Senate Workplace Constructing on Capitol Hill, March 22, 2022 in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photographs