Critical race theory and loving America are not mutually exclusive. My journey with CRT.

As a white person, learning about the depths of racist brutality intertwined with the history of the United States wasn’t an act in self-loathing but empowerment. You have to understand a problem to be able to help solve it, and I wasn’t raised to see racism as a current problem in our nation, let alone understand the depths and severities of the past. That changed because of critical race theory, and I’m a better American – and a better human – because of it. To understand why, it’s important to understand the focus of the criticism in critical race theory.