Obama Promotes Critical Race Theory in 1991 A video recording surfaced years later as he supported Derrick Bell's nomination as a tenured professor.
Cf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz3qShugQ9I
Bell and other legal scholars began using the phrase "critical race theory" (CRT) in the 1970s as a takeoff on "critical legal theory", a branch of legal scholarship that challenges the validity of concepts such as rationality, objective truth, and judicial neutrality. Critical legal theory was itself a takeoff on critical theory, a philosophical framework with roots in Marxist thought.
Bell produced one book for a respectable publisher among his numerous works. In higher education, it is unusual for someone to obtain tenure without producing high quality work; however, Bell was appointed when controversy about diversity wracked Harvard.
Bell also wrote science fiction short stories, including "The Space Traders", a story in which white Americans trade black Americans to space aliens in order to pay off the national debt and receive advanced technology such as environmental decontaminants and alternatives to fossil fuels. His story maintained that whites act to protect their own white self-interest. Bell explained "[It's] better [to] risk the unknown in space than face the certainty of racial discrimination here at home."[26] The story was adapted for television in 1994 by director Reginald Hudlin and writer Trey Ellis. It aired on HBO as the leading segment of a three-part anthology entitled, Cosmic Slop, which focused on Black science fiction.
Education Union to Target Those Opposing CRT: Florida Mom Says ‘Bring It On’
Cf. https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/education-union-to-target-those-opposing-crt-florida-mom-says-bring-it-on_3889534.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-07-07-1&mktids=d17bc471f612566d28e139d9c5769f53&est=UxHfezKB9FKjzHDy2%2BmipCM4zBiL0rRcyYmIcYEI0ymhJf%2FPurtfEPidj%2BoZ1QBX
