"As a person committed to antiracism, I would prefer it if opponents of racial equality hadn't chosen to attack research aimed at diagnosing and healing racial inequality. It's not coincidental that the conservative think tanks promoting the anti-critical race theory hysteria tend to support policies that strike at the heart of civil rights victories- making it harder for people of color to vote, undermining public education, and promoting nativist and anti-immigration policies such as militarizing the border. These conservative think tanks, by and large, also supported a would-be authoritarian president whose political rise was facilitated by the slander of birtherism, an unhinged conspiracy theory questioning President Barack Obama's citizenship. Like former president Donald Trump, the groups promoting the anti-critical race theory moral panic aren't interested in solving racial inequality; they are manipulating racism for political advantage."
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Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care (2022), New York: Random House, p. xv
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