You bring up King as an invocation to lend nobility to CRT.
You weren’t born in 1968. Oppression is not your truth, liberalism is your truth. You have never known The Promise Unfulfilled and neither has Patrisse, Crenshaw, Delgado nor any of the rest of them.
Jim Crow, redlining, etc held some people back, you and the current activists, enablers and supporters are not among them.
I understand the fear and recognize the validity of it.
The notion of “getting woke” (or staying woke) is defined as being acutely aware of racial and social injustice—not just awareness and acknowledgement of isolated incidents, but awareness from a position of understanding systemic and institutional racism. … The notion of getting woke encapsulates the first stage of becoming an accomplice in addressing the system of racism… White accomplices should strive to be woke enough not to call themselves woke and instead strive to embody this state of being by building with people of color. … Be in a perpetual state of learning and be woke enough to know you are never woke enough.
Roy, Laura A. Teaching While White: Addressing the Intersections of Race and Immigration in the Classroom , 2018, pp. 150–151.
Blaming? They are the reason you can celebrate today. They gave you a head start in this beautiful country. Thank them for what they did for you on this day (well technically not actually this day, but I digress)
78 percent would ban racially offensive comments and slurs, while 71 percent would eliminate racially stereotypical costumes. Both are protected by the Constitution.
One in four students says campuses should restrict “political views that are upsetting or offensive to certain groups.”
It’s now a familiar pattern, drawn from multiple studies. College students love the idea of freedom of speech, but many want to carve out exceptions.