The Moment in 1986 When Critical Race Theory Ousted the Civil Rights Movement | RealClearInvestigations
Critical race theory isn t so much a thing as a way of looking at a thing, Kimberlé Crenshaw assured MSNBC host Joy Reid last month. Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA who, as a law student at Harvard, was one of the founders of critical race theory in the 1980s. The cable news segment headlined The GOP s Fact-Free Freakout Over Critical Race Theory portrayed CRT as unobjectionable: It s a way of looking at race, Crenshaw said, smiling. It s a way of looking at why, after so many decades centuries, actually since the emancipation, we have patterns of inequality that are enduring.