I’m a big believer in self-reflection on a personal level, a professional level and a societal level.
I firmly believe that if we as individuals and collectively are able to critically think about our failures and shortcomings, we can use them as motivation and as a roadmap for how to improve.
Now I wanted to begin there because it informs how I view this ongoing debate around critical race theory, which seems to have become the latest partisan flashpoint in the “culture wars.” Clearly some people are referencing it without understanding what it actually entails.
Critical race theory has been an academic concept for more than four decades. Its basic principles grew out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and ’80s.
At its core the theory’s purpose, according to scholars, is to examine how racism has shaped the U.S. legal system and public policy affecting many aspects of American life and American institutions.