Derrick Bell | “Racial Realism” | Stephen Hicks’s *Philosophers, Explained* series:

Black people will never gain full equality in this country.”

Critical Race Theory is based in part upon a pessimistic, anti-progress view of race relations. Derrick Bell, one of CRT’s founders, thus urged a rejection of Martin Luther King’s “’We Have a Dream’ mentality”, to be replaced with a strategy “to harass white folks.” Here is a close reading of Bell’s classic essay:

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