For those unfamiliar with CRT, NFTs, and conceptual art, let me explain what is happening. 🧵⤵️

https://twitter.com/EtienneT_Esq/status/1504104165114630148

This NFT conveys ownership of a work of conceptual art entitled "Whiteness As Property", which constitutes the idea that "whiteness" (as a socio-legal construct) can become "property". As such, whiteness can be traded in marketplace exchanges for value.

I’m realizing that the very question many law professors utter in class, “what are the relevant facts,” is an example of way law constitutes cultural meaning. That is, law teaches us what facts in our lives should be relevant to resolve disputes. The flip side - and this is important - culture constitutes law in the first instance, the outcome of “culture wars” which in a democracy theoretically occurs in dialogic fashion. But when some voices and ideas are silenced . . .

I have a dream that one day we will remember that when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went to Washington D.C. on August 23, 1963 to deliver an address at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, his purpose was not to lull us to sleep with flowery visions of a seductive, yet elusive American Dream;

his purpose was not to soothe the racial tensions & social anxieties of his day with a sweet sounding hope for a better tomorrow;

To recognize Blackness as a social fiction, yet to embrace its legacy is to embrace a centuries long striving for freedom. To recognize Whiteness as a social fiction, yet to embrace its legacy is to . . . ?

This to me is the question at the root of the present cultural crisis /n around CRT. To embrace the legacy of Whiteness, notwithstanding its fictive nature, one must decide what aspects of Whiteness are worth embracing. To return with an answer of “nothing” is psychologically, if it culturally destructive to the point of instilling /n