CRT: A Primer

This is what conservative opponents of critical race theory don't want you to know https://t.co/1KHU3zwfJ1

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 23, 2021

I won't quote the article; I recommend you read it. An interesting comparison can be made to the provisions of three of the Constitutions of the State of Texas and the statutes (going back to Maryland's slave statute of 1664) that created the laws of slavery in the colonies, and in  America.

I will leave you with this, the final two paragraphs of the article, which I would place against any blunt ignorance about what CRT is, either from its most rabid critics, or from its most uncertain supporters:

Though enacted centuries ago, the laws cited above are representative of the many laws that came to define American jurisprudence, and have at their core, the repression and oppression of Black Americans, and other people of color. This is why Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, writing for the U.S. Supreme Court in 1857, handed down a 7-2 verdict in the Dred Scott case, with the words that Blacks had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect." This is why critical race theory states that systemic racism was consciously created, as these laws and their enforcement show they were.

But this is also why Republican legislators and their supporters lump anything and everything having to do with diversity, equity, and inclusion into the box of critical race theory, then try to keep it out of schools and public institutions. They're afraid of Americans being told the truth: that the foundation of America, and of systemic racism, happened at the same time and from the same consciously created laws. In this way, these individuals are actually living proof of the validity of critical race theory, because they seek to consciously enact laws today which perpetuate the racial inequality established by laws enacted hundreds of years ago.