A lot of Christians are using the CRT label as a dog whistle to villainize those seeking to address racial injustice.

Most people don’t even know what CRT is or have actually read any of it. They hear someone talking about race and label them a Critical Race Theorist.

People throw around the CRT label because they are either intellectually lazy (failing to love God with their mind), because they don’t believe in common grace (forgetting that all truth is God’s truth), or because they bought into a worldview that cannot deal with systemic sin.

Some try to honestly engage with CRT, but their presuppositions lead them to become blind to categories that are laid out in the Scriptures like that of the oppressor and the oppressed, sins of omission, and addressing power.

Some have bought into a colorblind ideology (ignoring the real differences in life experience along racial lines), hold onto enlightenment notions of progress as if it’s the gospel, and believe that colonization is the source of true civilization.

There will be an increase in people discussing Critical Race Theory from Christian conviction. Unless they’ve actually studied it, ignore them. Instead, turn to @MeditarMestizo, @Jeff_Liou, @AlsoACarpenter, and @rasoolberry for insight on how Christianity and CRT interact.

Since I’ve been called a Critical Race Theorist, a liberal, a Marxist, and a socialist (I’m still waiting to be called a communist), I thought I’d delve into some CRT over the course of the last couple years. Though I don’t agree with every solution laid out by some CRT folk...

...There is a lot to glean from CRT as it does a great job of showing the ways that sin manifests along racial lines in the law and in educational systems, how humanity is truly depraved and is in desperate need of God, and how the church should have confronted such evils first.