billiam0202 , 11 months ago

It’s a post- graduate legal theory about the intersection of laws and race in America. Exactly what it is isn’t really relevant- even among legal minds in the US, it wasn’t a widely accepted or debated concept.

However, three or four years ago, a racist shit bag named Christopher Rufo started lying about what it was to rile up the racists in the Republican party. He claimed CRT was designed to make white children feel guilty about America’s slave-owning past and that it teaches that Black children are owed status and money at the expense of white children. He also claimed this was being taught to children at all levels of American public education.

Again it must be pointed out that he completely fabricated everything he said about CRT. Unfortunately, Republicans are generally as unintelligent as they are fearful, and a wave of anti “CRT” panic is sweeping through America. The net result is Republican governments are banning nearly any discussion about racial disparity in current or former US events all because they don’t want to admit that 1) YES RACISM IS BAD and 2) freeing a class of people you’ve kept enslaved for hundreds of years doesn’t magically make things okay or make that people equal to you.

To be clear, white Americans shouldn’t feel guilty over America’s slave-owning past. I never owned any slaves, and neither has anyone I know. But we should be recognizing how a system of laws built on the literal backs of Black slaves would generationally prevent Black Americans from reaching parity with white Americans- you just can’t wave you hands and say “Poof! Slavery is gone!” and everything becomes sunshine and rainbows. It’s these kind of discussions that Rufo and the GOP are trying to prevent.