Republicans have disfigured CRT — an academic frame that scholars have been using in graduate-level courses for decades to interrogate how the legal system entrenches racism — into a catchall to describe things they don’t like.
Author: Brandon Tensley, CNN
Cruelty Has Long Been a Central Part of U.S. Politics
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