A few weeks ago I was in a meeting about race and racism and someone stood up and began by butchering even the letters “CRT.” He jumbled around for a bit, then I finally blurted out, “Critical. Race. Theory.”
He then said, “Yeah THAT! Well, I don’t much about that but…”
I should have jumped up and say, “THEN STOP TALKING!”
CRT is such bogeyman created to simply shield us as white conservative Christians from having to engage in any meaningful conversation about race. As David French explains, it’s our bulletproof armor now:
Apprentice 2 Jesus 