Like you have stated before we agree on many things. Also like you years ago I thought most racism in this country was anecdotal and singular in nature. The more I read and observe as I get older things lead me away from that thought. When I read how Blacks when taking all other things into consideration are sentenced 15 to 20 percent longer when convicted of a crime, or how Blacks and Whites smoke Weed at the same rate, but Blacks are 3 times as likely to get arrested, or when applying to a job resumes with White sounding names are 50% more likely to get a call back. Not to mention financial losses to people of color through generations thanks to Redlining. All of these studies are not anecdotal, there shall we say "systemic". As I read more about CRT and not from sources such as the Federalist or Fox news. It seems CRT just tries to look at reasons of disparate outcomes, even when laws are supposed to be color blind. Similar to post I made on another thread, just because a law doesn't state someone's race in it, doesn't make it race neutral. The big thing on the "Right" now is how horrible "cancel culture" is, but if you think about it America has "criminalized culture" of people of color for years. Just look at our criminal justice systems reaction to Alcohol, marijuana, and opioids. The one most commonly associated or used by Whites they legalized or offered treatment, even when we used the same drugs in different forms, sentencing for crack was 10 to 1 compared to powder cocaine, and the usage differences between Blacks and Whites were about the same . At least if they cancel your culture you don't end up in jail. I think about the westerns I've watched over the years and how it was the culture in many native American Tribes to steal another mans horse, what did European settlers do, they made stealing horses a hanging offence.
The excerpt below is the President's right hand man admitting to "Criminalizing Culture"
One of Richard Nixon's top advisers and a key figure in the Watergate scandal said the war on drugs was created as a political tool to fight blacks and hippies, according to a 22-year-old interview recently published in Harper's Magazine.
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“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
How conservative politicians and pundits became fixated on an academic approach
www.theatlantic.com
The New Right-Wing Bogeyman
Crenshaw and her classmates asked 12 scholars of color to come to campus and lead discussions about Bell’s book
Race, Racism, and American Law. With that, critical race theory began in earnest. The approach “is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures,” Bell explained in 1995. The theory’s proponents argue that the nation’s sordid history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination is embedded in our laws, and continues to play a central role in preventing Black Americans and other marginalized groups from living lives untouched by racism.
For some, the theory was a revelatory way to understand inequality. Take housing, for example. Researchers have now accumulated ample evidence that racial covenants in property deeds and redlining by the Federal Housing Authority—banned more than 60 years ago—remain a major contributor to the gulf in homeownership, and thus wealth, between Black and white people.