The Problem is the Other CRT (Conservative Race Theory)

Denying systemic racism means blaming Black people for their status in America — and that’s far more offensive

Tim Wise
7 min readJul 1, 2021

--

Image: Louis Bavent, Flickr, used under Creative Commons license 2.0

To hear conservatives tell it, Critical Race Theory — their newfound buzz phrase for virtually any anti-racist analysis or argument — is fundamentally un-American, and even racist itself.

--

--

Tim Wise

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)