I try to keep an open mind about it. I mean, if I was Black I might see the world through my skin color as much as anything given their history here - from slavery, to red lining, to not being considered an actual person, to the unfair war on drugs, to the 13th ammendment, to Tuskegee….I could go on and on, all because of their skin color.
As for CRT, it , like BLM, has a messaging problem but is really mostly reactionary. Shitholes in the American South literally do not want to teach what actually happened there. Alabama, which patted itself on the back for banning CRT in schools, basically wants everyone to ignore that they wouldn’t let a Black girl go to that same school in the 1950’s. It’s ridiculous.
Race is a very complicated and sore subject here. Not apples to apples, but probably not unlike how sensitive the Holocaust is in Germany. As a tall, white, straight man with a full head of hair, I have the privilege Mount Rushmore. I don’t know what it’s like to be on the other side so I keep my opinions flexible.
