Critical Race Theory

In the movie the “13th” that we watched during class it showed us how much of an impact that slavery, segregation, and the war on drugs has had on our society. Angela Davis stated in the film “Historically when one looks at effort to create reforms they inevitably lead to more oppressions.” I feel that what she states clearly depicts that in history the way our leaders have tried to create a way to mold this society it has lead to more individuals being segregated often racially. Usually people of certain status have felt targeted by these reforms.

I feel that the factors that led us to this cycle that we find ourselves in started with slavery. Slavery segregated us as human beings based on color a very long time ago. Blacks were treated

In the book called “Critical Race Theory” by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic it states the 3 propositions of Critical race theory. “The first feature, ordinariness, means that racism is difficult to cure or address. Color-blind, or “formal,” conceptions of equality, expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board, can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination, such as mortgage redlining or the refusal to hire a black Ph.D. rather than a white high school dropout, that do stand out and attract our attention. The second feature, sometimes called “interest convergence” or material determinism, adds a further dimension. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and working-class people (psychically), large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it. Consider, for example, Derrick Bell’s shocking proposal (discussed in a later chapter) that Brown v. Board of Education—considered a great triumph of civil rights litigation—may have resulted more from the self-interest of elite whites than a desire to help blacks. A third theme of critical race theory, the “socialization” thesis, holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations. Not objective, inherent, or fixed, they correspond to no biological or genetic reality; rather, races are categories that society invents, manipulates, or retires when convenient. People with common origins share certain.” Studies from this article show “ that blacks and Latinos who seek loans, apartments, or jobs are much more apt than similarly qualified whites to be rejected, often for vague or spurious reasons. The prison population is largely black and brown; chief executive officers, surgeons, and university presidents