BY MIGUEL A. DE LA TORRE DECEMBER 14, 2020
The six white men who lead the seminaries of the Southern Baptist Convention released a joint statement on November 30th denouncing Critical Race Theory. If these six white men were to seriously consider Critical Race Theory, they would have to confront their complicity with the institutional violence I—as an alumni of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary—experienced. To wrestle with Critical Race Theory would force these six white men to consider how the power, profit, and privilege they and their institutions possess is masked by rhetoric that hides the price their disenfranchised Others were and are still forced to pay. Read HERE.
What is Critical Race Theory?
BY CADY LANG SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 10:53 PM EDT
Critical race theory offers a way of seeing the world that helps people recognize the effects of historical racism in modern American life. The intellectual movement behind the idea was started by legal scholars as a way to examine how laws and systems uphold and perpetuate inequality for traditionally marginalized groups. In Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic’s book Critical Race Theory: An Introduction, they define the critical race theory movement as “a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.” Read HERE. For more information, read HERE.