I am no expert on CRT.
That said, I have noticed that some of the arguments against it are ironically kind of "intellectually Marxist"--if not in nature, at least in execution. That is, there seems to be this attitude that there is an intellectual proletariat/underdog that must overturn the intellectual elite/oppressors. That nothing good can come from an intellectual elite, and therefore there must be a self-revolution to emancipate our minds (or those of our children) from the oppression of...studied experts? I'll leave room for that to be an exaggeration, but what if it's not?
I'm not advocating for or against CRT. But I do advocate against injustice. Full stop. Because Jesus. CRT truly just seems to be the ideological straw man of the day. It exists as perhaps flawed way of understanding a very real phenomenon. But even if so, why would we expect something more than "flawed" from something that is not the Gospel? Why can't we take it, glean what is valuable, and apply the Gospel to what it lacks? Why must we dismiss anything wholesale? Why not be Berean in all things, not just our study of Scripture? And why can't we teach our children to do the same?
Instead, CRT seems to be treated either as the only way of understanding things or the perfect thing to attack in order to avoid the real underlying issue. It seems as though at some point those who routinely cry "marxist" won't be believed anymore. I'm afraid that's the trajectory the Church is on.
We need experts on things. And we need to engage with their ideas soberly. We need all kinds. We need intellectual integrity. We need intellectual pluralism.
Black History Matters. Native American History Matters. Women's History Matters. Systems can oppress. We should equip our children to face these realities and change them.
*Sips tea and goes back to reading the book of James*
