1) What is Critical Race Theory? How does it compare or relate to learning about racism? 2) What are the basic principles of Critical Race Theorists? 3) Is Critical Race Theory pessimistic? Consider that it holds that racism is ordinary, normal, and embedded in society, and, moreover, that improvements and turns for the worse between whites and POC reflect the interest of the dominant group, rather than equality or diversity. Or is it optimistic, because it believes that "race" is a social construction? (As such, it should be subject to ready change.) In addition, if CRT does have a "dark side", what follows/could come from that? (As an example, medicine is pessimistic because it focuses on diseases and traumas?). Share your thoughts. 4) There is a lot of debate whether Critical Race Theory should be taught in education. What are your thoughts? Can you think of situations or major current events when Critical Race Theory might be mandatory to teach in schools? Visit the chalkboardreview.com link (https://thechalkboardreview.com/crt-toolkit/#k12) that criticizes the purpose of CRT in education. Do you think there is any value in what they say?

***Attached is the critical race theory doc which you will need to answer questions 1-4***

Beelc Tenete of Critical Race Theory What do critical race theorists believe? Probably not every member would subscribe to every tenet set out In this book. but many would agree on the following propositions. First. that racism is ordinary. not aberrational"normal sclen ce.\" the usual way society does business. the common. everyday experience of most people of color in this country. Second. most would agree that our system of white-over-color ascendancy serves important purposes. both psychic and material. The rst feature. ordinariness. means that racism is difficult to cure or address. Colorblind. or "fon-nal." conceptions of equality. expressed in mles that insist only on treatment that is the same across the board. can thus remedy only the most blatant forms of discrimination. such as mortgage redlining or the refusal to hire a black PhD. rather than a white high school dropout. that do stand out and attract our attention. The second feature. sometimes called \"interest convergence\" or material determinism. adds a further dimension. Because racism advances the interests of both white elites (materially) and wort-zing-class people (psychically). large segments of society have little incentive to eradicate it. Consider. for example. Derrick Bell's shocking proposal (discussed in a later chapter) that Brown v. Board of Educationconsidered a great triumph of civil rights litigationmay have resulted more from the self-interest of elite whites than a desire to help blacks. A third theme of critical race theory. the "social constnictlon" thesis. holds that race and races are products of social thought and relations. Not objective. inherent. or xed. they correspond to no biological or genetic reality: rather. races are categories that society invents. manipulates. or retires when convenient People with common origins share certain physical traits. of course. such as skin color. physique. and hair texture. But these constitute only an extremely small portion of their genetic endoment. are dwarfed by that which we have in common. and have little or nothing to do with distinctly human. higher-order traits. such as personality. intelligence. and moral behavior. That society frequently chooses to ignore these scientific facts. creates races. and endows them with pseudo-pennanent characteristics is of great interest to critical race theory. Another. somewhat more recent. development concerns differential racialization and its many consequences. Critical writers in law. as well as social science. have drawn attention to the ways the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times. in response to shifting needs such as the labor market. At one period. for example. society may have had little use for blacks. but much need for Mexican or Japanese agricultural workers. At another time. the Japanese. including citizens of long standing. may have been in intense disfavor and removed to war relocation camps. while society cultivated other groups of color for jobs in war industry or as cannon fodder on the front. Popular images and stereotypes of various minority groups shift over time. as well. In one era. a group of color may be depicted as happy-gowlucky. simpleminded. and content to serve white folks. A little later. when conditions change. that very same group may appear in cartoons. movies. and other cultural scripts as menacing. bmtish. and out of control. requiring close monitoring and repression. Closely related to differential racializationthe idea that each race has its own origins and ever evolving historyis the notion of intersectionality and anti-essentialism. No person has a single. easily stated. unitary identity. Awhite feminist may be Jewish. or working-class. or a single moth er. An African American activist may be gay or lesbian. A Latino may be a Democrat, a Republican. or even a black perheps because that person's family hails from the Caribbean. An Asian may be a recently arrived Hmong of rural background and unfamiliar with mercantile life. or s fourthgeneration Chinese with a father who is a university professor and a mother who operates a business. Everyone has potentially conicting. overlapping identities. loyalties. and allegiances. A nal element concerns the notion of a unique voice of color. Coexisting in somewhat uneasy tension with anti-essentialism. the voice-of-color thesis holds that because of their different histories and experiences with oppression. black. Indian. Asian. and Latinofa writers and thinkers may be able to communicate to their white counterparts matters that the whites are unlikely to know. Minority status, in other words, brings with it a presumed competence to speak about race and racism. The "legal storytelling" movement urges black and brown writers to recount their experiences with racism and the legal system and to apply their own unique perspectives to assess law's master narratives. T