Critical race theory is this year’s War on Christmas.
Apologies if that sounds like braggadocio, but there’s a point that needs making. I’ve spent the better part of 40 years researching and writing about the history and dynamics of race in America — and 63 years living them. I know this terrain well.
And yet — it bears repeating — as recently as January, this avowed expert in racial dynamics had never heard of it. Nor am I the only one. Last week, I surveyed a handful of people like me: African-American journalists with long experience in the field of race. Only one claimed detailed prior knowledge of critical race theory. As to the rest?“I had heard the term vaguely,” said another.Small wonder. A search of the Nexis database finds that the term “critical race theory” appeared in U.S.
There are no words — nice ones, anyway — for the cynicism of those who employ these crude manipulations. Or, for the gullibility and stupidity of those who let them get away with it, who fall for the same tired okey-doke, season after season, year after year, generation after generation.
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