Do you think critical race theorists, or its many proponents, truly want justice, as they claim, or are they merely hellbent on seeking retribution for past racial wrongdoings?

CRT is a useful overlay in understanding institutions. But, as the self-defense stats show, a serious student of CRT might well conclude that enormous progress has been made in reducing the systemic racism that CRT seeks to expose.

I have no problem with CRT as an inquiry into the state of play. My problem is with practitioners who approach that inquiry with an outcome in mind. It's fair to ask whether and to what extent racism permeates our institutions, but only if you are willing to discover that the answer is "no longer enough to make school, career, and family a bad strategy." Instead, people point to CRT to justify their fecklessness.