It would seem a dereliction of duty to attempt a serious newsletter about current events and not delve into Critical Race Theory. Yet, identifying what Critical Race Theory even is can be difficult. CRT has morphed over the decades (originally, by most accounts, it was a legal theory that claimed laws were enacted to keep Blacks down and protect the White power structure, much as Marxists have argued that laws are passed in bourgeois societies to protect vested interests and keep workers and peasants down), but today it more broadly seeks to explain the many poor outcomes and low overall socioeconomic status for Blacks.
This strikes me as a truly insightful piece, the best short treatment I've read on the subject. My only additional thought is that I suspect how one views race in America depends a lot on one's vantage point. I can only imagine that for many Black people American history has had different underpinnings, a different trajectory than that perceived by their White fellow citizens. The key to arriving at a common perspective, a new and shared national narrative, is for each group to be able to step out of its own narrative, to see how it looks from the other's vantage point, and to strive for a synthesis at once broader and deeper than either group had previously held individually.
This strikes me as a truly insightful piece, the best short treatment I've read on the subject. My only additional thought is that I suspect how one views race in America depends a lot on one's vantage point. I can only imagine that for many Black people American history has had different underpinnings, a different trajectory than that perceived by their White fellow citizens. The key to arriving at a common perspective, a new and shared national narrative, is for each group to be able to step out of its own narrative, to see how it looks from the other's vantage point, and to strive for a synthesis at once broader and deeper than either group had previously held individually.