{"id":5192,"date":"2021-07-30T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2025-10-31T03:38:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T03:38:02","slug":"critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Race Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me the key push back against Critical Race Theory (CRT) has to do with (1) whether white folks alive today should feel any guilt for what their ancestors may or may not have done and (2) whether CRT should be restricted to being taught above K-12 or be taught at some point in K-12. In my view CRT is useful but should be restricted to being taught above K-12 where students should be mature enough to both understand all sides and properly handle both the positives and negatives. I certainly do not believe any white person alive today should feel any guilt for what dead folks did.<br><br>In the video below entitled The Battle Over Critical Race Theory&#8230; one of the founders of CRT, Kimberlee Williams Crenshaw had multiple opportunities to outrightly respond to critics of CRT by stating outrightly that she does not believe white folks alive today should feel any guilt for what dead white folks did. She also had multiple opportunities to say outrightly that she does not beliee CRT should be taught in K-12. She did not state either. In fact she all but said outrightly that she believes CRT should be taught in K-12.<br><br>The below link starts the video toward the end where Kimberle Crenshaw makes her final statement which really captures her inner beliefs in my view. One can rewind to hear the whole video.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/6mGohbqdcT8?si=oMOroxuXFScZ3gmb&amp;t=3714\">The Battle Over Critical Race Theory (feat. Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw) | The Daily Show<\/a> &#8211; Kimberle Crenshaw was one of the founders of Critical Race Theory and coiner of what is known as Intersectionality<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0yHuCjQ5pUA\">What is Critical Race Theory and Why is it Under Attack?<\/a> &#8211; includes Kimberle Crenshaw, who coined the terms Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality.  Speaks about Washington-Davis 1976 Case involving Washington DC Police Force but ignores progress in attitude and law exemplified by 2020 DC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/ar2020_lowres_a\/\">Annual Report<\/a> where 50% of bureau chiefs were black, 57% of district commanders were black (Page 8-9) and 55% of sworn force was black and 35% white (Page 32) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hStkQRbhqLQ&amp;t=746s\">UNC Center for Civil Rights Panel on Critical Race Theory<\/a> &#8211; Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, two of the founders of CRT, the two are Whitish<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/criticalrace.org\/\">Legal Insurrection Foundation<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalrace.org\/\">Critical Race Theory in Education<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imprimis.hillsdale.edu\/critical-race-theory-fight\/\">Hillsdale: Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyber.harvard.edu\/bridge\/CriticalTheory\/critical4.htm\">Harvard: Critical Race Theory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/subject_specific_writing\/writing_in_literature\/literary_theory_and_schools_of_criticism\/critical_race_theory.html\">Purdue: Critical Race Theory (1970s-present)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.edu\/first-amendment\/article\/1254\/critical-race-theory\">Middle Tennessee State Univ: Critical Race Theory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/fact-checking\/2021\/what-Is-critical-race-theory-And-why-are-conservatives-blocking-it\/\">Poynter: What is critical race theory, and why are conservatives blocking it?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanbar.org\/groups\/crsj\/publications\/human_rights_magazine_home\/civil-rights-reimagining-policing\/a-lesson-on-critical-race-theory\/\">ABA: A Lesson on Critical Race Theory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/anti-critical-race-theory-org-taking-aim-at-loudoun-county-school-board-in-half-million-dollar-ad-buy\/ar-AAOm4yo?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531\">Anti-Critical Race Theory Nonprofit Takes Out Half Million Dollar Ad<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Zy6DQoRYQw\">Prager University Critical Race Theory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AftoggVdQwY\">Cornell West on Critical Race Theory<\/a> &#8211; To me it is good to speak from the lens of Blacks of yesteryear and present-time but one must also speak from the lens of Whites of yesteryear and present-time.  There must be impartiality in the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ICO4BUrTNgA\">Was Richard Delgado A Founder Of Critical Race Theory? &#8211; Your Civil Rights Guide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For me the key push back against Critical Race Theory (CRT) has to do with (1) whether white folks alive today should feel any guilt for what their ancestors may or may not have done and (2) whether CRT should be restricted to being taught above K-12 or be taught at some point in K-12.<a href=\"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/blog\/critical-race-theory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critical Race Theory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,23,22,6,27,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-education","category-government","category-race-and-racism","category-social-issues","category-socio-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13547,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/13547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totallifeinsight.com\/tli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}