Critical Race Theory, or CRT, has become the latest point of contention in our particularly contentious society.

Conservatives and liberals argue about what it is, and what it is going to do to our country. Conservatives feel it is a wild-eyed, marxist condemnation of White people as racists in control of a racist society, and is being used to sully our nation’s history, poison our school children’s minds and divide the people. Liberals see it as a recognition of the how racism has shaped policies in our social system, and that recognition is the first step to eliminating the racism that continues to permeate our society.

CRT is an academic social theory developed in the late 1970s that says racism is a social construct that is embedded in our legal system and policies. With the eruption of protests against police violence against Blacks, CRT has become a focal point.

We do not to argue about CRT but to help define what it is we are arguing about.