1. The basic scientific fact of Critical Race Theory is that “race” is a biological fiction and an socio-historical construction.
2. The basic historical fact of Critical Race Theory is that “race” was created and legislated for specific and demonstrable purposes.
3. The basic sociological fact of Critical Race Theory is that the creation of “race” was subordinating & has created a human social hierarchy which has affected, even structured, our most basic social systems, including law, citizenship, labor, human geography, and institutions.
4. The basic economic fact of Critical Race Theory is that vast society-wide disparities exist along the socio-historically created biological fiction that is “race.”
5. The basic moral fact of Critical Race Theory is that socially constructed “racial” hierarchies are not a just basis for distributing rights, privileges, advantages, and disadvantages.
6. The basic “critical” fact of Critical Race Theory, therefore, is that to address the above we must “locate problems not at the surface of doctrine but in the deep structure of American law and culture” (Angela Harris).
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