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22 Oct, 13 tweets, 3 min read
I was giving a presentation on CRT a bit back, and one of the participants said that he'd never heard it explained that way, and if CRT really was what I was saying, then why are none of the louder public voices explaining it that way? My answer was, they very much are! But 1/
2/ few, it is clear, care to actually listen to real CRT scholars. Further, if you keep going to Fox News, Breitbart, National Review, The Federalist, Christian bloggers, etc., to get your info on CRT, then of course you're only going to hear the hair-raising BS explanations.
3/ CRT scholars have been working tirelessly to correct the record on their work; the problem is the lack of amplifiers and listeners.

So, in order to demonstrate this, here are a list of popular level articles published for popular access that we COULD all accept as verified
4/ by the scholars themselves explanations, purposely published for a broad audience to tell the actual truth about CRT:

Here are founders Kimberlé Crenshaw, Kendall Thomas, and Patricia Williams: news.columbia.edu/news/what-crit…
5/ Here is founder Gary Peller: politico.com/news/magazine/…
6/ Here is Crenshaw again: washingtonpost.com/outlook/critic…
7/ Here is founder Cheryl Harris: thenation.com/article/politi…
8/ Here is founder Mari Matsuda: reappropriate.co/2021/03/mari-m…
9/ Here is brilliant CRT scholar Ian Haney Lopez: publicintegrity.org/inside-publici…
10/ Heck, even the American Bar Association has weighed in: americanbar.org/groups/crsj/pu…
11/ And as a bonus, this was fun and is built from interviews with the actual scholars: snopes.com/news/2021/05/2…
12/12 Now, if you haven't read any of this and think that these arguments aren't being made, now it's squarely on you.

The CRT folks are doing the work. Now it's time to listen.
13/12 Shoot, I should have included this piece as well, from another CRT founder, Patricia Williams:

thenation.com/article/societ…

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When “objective truth” is contrasted with “socially constructed truth,” the contrast is NOT between the existence of truth as such and multiple-“truths,” experiential “truths,” or private/subjective “truths,” but between truths that are discoverable in the world as 1/
2/ (more or less) independent of social formation, social habitualization, and social institutionalization; that is, truth that is not contingent on a network of historically constructed social meanings. This is why mathematics and science are often considered to deal in
3/ "objective truth" whereas social sciences largely deal in socially constructed truths, viz., truths dependent upon networks of social meanings. 

Further, in CRT, this debate is almost ALWAYS in the context of determining truth legal storytelling. It's extremely important to
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24 Jul
Requiring one to answer, "Are you for CRT or against CRT?" (or "align with," "accept," etc.) as though it were a tightly defined logical unit with every truth a theorem, is a tactic, a polemic maneuver that makes no sense when discussing social and legal theory. 1/
2/ And this kind of wholesale requirement to accept or reject only applies to cultural bogeyman. You are not, for example, required to "accept or reject" capitalism, but you are required to "accept or reject" Marxism.

Isn't it weird to say, "are you for or against Legal
3/ Realism??" or "are you for or against symbolic interactionism??"

We simply don't think that way about broad theoretical traditions, with various different approaches and continued internal debate, like all social and legal theories.
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23 Jul
I wish we could say everything's changed. Hear Dr. King describing 2021 in 1968:

"The persistence of racism in depth and the dawning awareness that Negro demands will necessitate structural changes in society have generated a new phase of white resistance in North and South. 1/
2/ "Based on the cruel judgment that Negroes have come far enough, there is a strong mood to bring the civil rights movement to a halt or reduce it to a crawl. Negro demands that yesterday evoked admiration and support, today—to many—have become tiresome, unwarranted and a
3/ "disturbance to the enjoyment of life. Cries of Black Power and riots are not the causes of white resistance, they are consequences of it."

Just think, our present predicament had already begun in Dr. King's lifetime. Ugh.
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22 Jul
Frederick Douglass:

"[T]his prejudice really has nothing whatever to do with race or color, and that it has its motive and mainspring in some other source with which the mere facts of color and race have nothing to do. … The office of color in the color line is a very plain 1/
2/ "and subordinate one. It simply advertises the objects of oppression, insult, and persecution. It is not the maddening liquor, but the black letters on the sign telling the world where it may be had. It is not the hated Quaker, but the broad brim and the plain coat.
3/ "It is not the hateful Cain, but the mark by which he is known. The color is innocent enough, but things with which it is coupled make it hated. Slavery, ignorance, stupidity, servility, poverty, dependence, are undesirable conditions.
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21 Jul
The real Dr. King:

"With Selma and the voting rights bill one era of our struggle came to a close and a new era came into being. Now our struggle is for genuine equality, which means economic equality. For we know now that it isn’t enough to integrate lunch counters. 1/
2/ "What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t earn enough money to buy a hamburger and a cup of coffee? What does it profit a man to be able to eat at the swankiest integrated restaurant when he doesn’t earn enough money to take
3/ "his wife out to dine? What does it profit one to have access to the hotels of our city and the motels of our highway when we don’t earn enough money to take our family on a vacation? What does it profit one to be able to attend an integrated school when he doesn’t earn
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20 Jul
Honestly, is @OStrachan lying or just too ignorant to be writing books on this?

This is his "definition" of "Critical Race Theory." Basically a string of false claims and then what is really MLK's "solution," hahaha. 1/
2/ CRT scholars do not say that ONLY White people can be racist. Here are co-founders of CRT, Charles Lawrence III on the left and Delgado & Stefancic on the right:
3/ And had a mentioned a CRT solution, or an MLK solution? Let's see:
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