Problem
Connections between your own experiences and awareness of how "race" impacts our society, how slavery has shaped that impact and how the conservative backlash to this "theory" and NY Times article is possibly influenced by defensiveness and even possibly racism and fear. The Republican Party has latched onto this "theory" as a vehicle to attack Democrats and actually win elections by activating their reactionary white supremacist base. Is Critical Race Theory a MISNOMER, something that is labeled incorrectly? Is it a "theory" or simply a reality? Even Democrats have fallen into the trap of using this possibly mislabeled term! Read the two explanations below and draw into your discussion post some of the issues raised in the Wikipedia articles.