CRT Origins “Radical Liberal,” Not Marxist

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

13 Jul 2021

Margaret Kimberley · CRT Origins “Radical Liberal,” Not Marxist

Harvard professor “Derrick Bell, himself, one of the founders of Critical Race Theory, said he had no use for Marxism,” said writer and political analyst Pascal Robert, countering white supremacist contentions that CRT is a Marxist phenomenon. “It’s radical liberalism,” said Dr Paul Macomb, a sociologist at the University of West Virginia who joined Robert at a webinar on Critical Race Theory.

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