What are you afraid of happening if we address systemic racism in America? How will the US look in 20 or 50 years if we address the underlying racism in law and government? Do you believe that the US was supposed to be a caste system of white males at the top and then others with the descending amount of others enjoying fewer rights?
Critical race theory (CRT), the view that the law and legal institutions are inherently
racist and that
race itself, instead of being biologically grounded and natural, is a socially constructed concept that is used by white people to further their economic and political interests at the expense of people of colour. According to critical race theory (CRT), racial inequality emerges from the social, economic, and legal differences that white people create between “races” to maintain
elite white interests in labour markets and politics, giving rise to
poverty and
criminality in many minority
communities. The CRT movement officially organized itself in 1989, at the first annual Workshop on Critical Race Theory, though its
intellectual origins go back much further, to the 1960s and ’70s.
The launch of the CRT movement marked its separation from
critical legal studies (CLS), an offshoot of
critical theory that examined how the law and legal institutions function to perpetuate oppression and exploitation. However, instead of drawing theories of social organization and individual behaviour from continental European thinkers such as
G.W.F. Hegel, and
Sigmund Freud, as CLS and feminist jurisprudence had done, CRT was inspired by figures such as
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
W.E.B. Du Bois,
Malcolm X, the
Black Panthers, and
Frantz Fanon. Critical race theory advanced theoretical understandings of the law, politics, and American sociology that focused on the efforts of white people (Euro-Americans) to maintain their historical advantages over people of colour.
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