As schools expand racial equity work, conservatives see a new threat in critical race theory

One black woman turned into Candice Owens at the school board. When black women stand up and talk against their race, this is so sad and is a part of critical race theory. Fox is just fantasy. Joy Reid talked about Tucker Carlson and gave him the truth and he needs to stop putting black women and men that agree with him as an academic movement of civil rights scholars and activists in the United States who seek to critically examine the law as it intersects with issues of race and to challenge mainstream liberal approaches to racial justice. Critical race theory examines social, cultural, and legal issues as they relate to race and racism.

Critical race theory originated in the mid-1970s in the writings of several American legal scholars including Derrick Bell, Alan Freeman, Kimberlé CrenshawRichard DelgadoCheryl Harris, Charles R. Lawrence III, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia J. Williams.  It emerged as a movement by the 1980s, reworking theories of critical legal studies (CLS) with more focus on race.  Both critical race theory and critical legal studies are rooted in critical theory, which argues that social problems are influenced and created more by societal structures and cultural assumptions than by individual and psychological factors.

Critical race theory is loosely unified by two common themes: first, that societal racism exists and maintains power through the law;  and second, that transforming the relationship between law and racial power, and also achieving racial emancipation and anti-subordination more broadly, are possible.

Critics of critical race theory argue that it relies on social constructionism, elevates storytelling over evidence and reason, rejects the concepts of truth and merit, and opposes

This the belief that is wrong this is the republican point of view below.

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