Critical Race Theory

“I think that the panic over CRT can be seen as part of this underlying anxiety about the status of White Americans in a changing country.”

“Critical race theory is not anti-patriotic,” Kimberlé Crenshaw told CNN’s Jason Carroll. “In fact, it is more patriotic than those who are opposed to it — because we believe in the 13th and the 14th and the 15th Amendments. We believe in the promises of equality. And we know we can’t get there if we can’t confront and talk honestly about inequality.”

Analysis: The engineered panic over critical race theory, explained Republicans have disfigured CRT -- an academic frame that scholars have been using in graduate-level courses for decades to interrogate how the legal system entrenches racism -- into a catchall to describe things they don’t like.