Critical Race Theory… Fact versus Fiction!
What's critical race theory?
Critical race theory recognizes that systemic racism is part of American society and challenges the beliefs that allow it to flourish.
"Critical race theory is a practice.
It's an approach to grappling with a history of White supremacy that rejects the belief that what's in the past is in the past, and that the laws and systems that grow from that past are detached from it," said Kimberlé Crenshaw, a founding critical race theorist and a law professor who teaches at UCLA and Columbia University.
Critical race theorists believe that racism is an everyday experience for most people of color, and that a large part of society has no interest in doing away with it because it benefits White elites.
Many also believe that American institutions are racist and that people are privileged or oppressed because of their race.
While the theory was started as a way to examine how laws and systems promote inequality, it has since expanded.
"Critical race theory attends not only to law's transformative role which is often celebrated, but also to its role in establishing the very rights and privileges that legal reform was set to dismantle," Crenshaw told CNN.
"Like American history itself, a proper understanding of the ground upon which we stand requires a balanced assessment, not a simplistic commitment to jingoistic accounts of our nation's past and current dynamics."
Over the past year many Americans have called for for an examination of systemic racism -- in part through education such as the teaching of The New York Times' 1619 Project in schools.
That Pulitzer Prize-winning project reframes American history around the date of August 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on America's shores.
America is proud of its status in the world… But ashamed of the atrocities it implemented in its development!
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