The term 'critical race theory' gained a foothold in the conservative American consciousness in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, an event that sparked a national reckoning on race.
Robin Steenman, chair of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, waits to speak at a board of education meeting, where she will make a public comment against teaching"critical race theory," a catch-all phrase to denounce school curricula and policies considered too progressive and the the teaching of certain civil rights texts to grade-school kids, in Franklin, Tennessee, U.S., August 16, 2021.
An often-cited illustration is America's War on Drugs. The 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act established harsher penalties for possession of crack cocaine than those for powder cocaine; Black Americans are more likely to be convicted of the former and whites the latter. Within four years, average federal drug sentences for Black offenders were 49% higher than those handed out to white offenders, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
On September 1, 2020, conservative journalist and researcher Christopher Rufo went on Fox News to decry the anti-bias training happening in federal agencies as an example of critical race theory. Rufo described CRT as a radical ideology sowing racial division through education.Three days later, Republican President Donald Trump's administration directed federal agencies to cease such training, which it called “divisive, un-American propaganda.
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