Critical Race Theory Disturbs the Agenda

The spread of critical race theory in schools has sparked controversies across the country. It disturbs the agenda of anyone opposed to change. The Critical Race Theory (CRT) movement is a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship between race, racism, and power. Critical race theory sprang up in the mid-1970s, as several lawyers, activists, and legal scholars across the country realized, simultaneously, that the heady advances of the civil rights era of the 1960s had stalled and, in many respects, were being rolled back.

The movement considers many of the same issues that conventional civil rights and ethnic studies discourses take up but places them in a broader perspective, including economics, history, context, group- and self-interest, and even feelings and the unconscious. Unlike traditional civil rights, which embraces incrementalism and step-by-step progress, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order, including equality theory, legal reasoning, Enlightenment rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.

CRT emphasizes outcomes, not merely on individuals’ own beliefs, and it calls on these outcomes to be examined and rectified. Sunny Hostin, lawyer and co-host of the daytime talk show, “The View,” had this to say during a segment on critical race theory:

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