Opinion | Laura E. Gómez: Why I welcome the Trump White House's attack on critical race theory. - NBCNewsTHINK
Laura E. Gómez, faculty director of UCLA's Critical Race Studies Programto federal agency heads with these words:"It has come to the President's attention that Executive Branch agencies have spent millions of taxpayer dollars to date 'training' government workers to believe divisive, anti-American propaganda." I doubt that President Donald Trump or Vought know specifically, but the memo apparently is referring toin the private sector and for public employees.
The memo singled out training in "critical race theory" and "white privilege" as examples of ideas "that the United States is an inherently racist or evil country." As a co-founder and current head of the nation's first established program in critical race theory, the UCLA Law School Critical Race Studies Program, while dismayed at the caricature the memo represents, I recognize a teachable moment when I see it. Critical race theory is not racial demonization. Far from being anti-American, as Trump's administration alleges, critical race theory aspires to the ideal of equality, an ideal we are far from achieving even 150 years later.
Critical race theory is a field of scholarship that arose in the legal academy in the 1980s, when a critical mass of African American and other law professors of color first coalesced. This first generation of critical race scholars sought to distinguish their ideas from those of liberal constitutional law scholars who put great faith in anti-discrimination laws and of far-left critical legal theory scholars who believed all law reform was designed simply to maintain the status quo.
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