The CRT Influencers that Parade the CRT Hypocrisy

Look at the faces of the CRT influencers. Observe them in their chosen locations and in the fold of their disciples. These individuals are almost all over 60 years old. These academics, as a group, have been in their academic influence heyday for over 40 years each, more or less. If you take that into account, and understand how small the academic community is, you can appreciate how deeply entrenched CRT has become, and how CRT is now a nebulous concept, easily dismissed by advocates as purely an academic pursuit.

But how did we get here, where CRT has become not just theory, but actual academic practice, lesson plans, parent surveys, school board policy? it is because of the influence of these individuals. They have steadfastly harbored their prejudices, and faithfully produced year after year of data and research couched in dubious but highly praised publications. They are now revered in modern media; they are touted as disciples and vanguard leaders of CRT.

Using an article posted here at Academic Influencer https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/influential-critical-race-theorists?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=2021_q3_0830_er_censorship&utm_content=go_crt , here are some of their names:

Derrick Bell Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was an American lawyer, professor, and civil rights activist. In 1971, he became the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School, and he is often credited as one of the originators of critical race theory along with Richard Delgado, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, and Patricia Williams. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death. He was also a dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. Rated #50 Influencer by Academic Influencer.com.

Cornell West Cornel West currently holds the title of Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. Prior to this, he has held positions at Princeton University (where he maintains the title of Professor Emeritus), Union Theological Seminary, Yale University, and the University of Paris. West earned his bachelor’s degree at Harvard University in 1973, and completed his PhD at Princeton University in 1980, making him the first African-American to earn a PhD in philosophy from Princeton. Rated #1 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw Kimberle Crenshaw is a lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and major civil rights advocate. Currently she holds the position of professor at the UCLA School of Law, as well as at Columbia Law School. Crenshaw completed her undergraduate education at Cornell University before receiving her JD from Harvard law School in 1984, and later a master of laws from the University of Wisconsin. Rater #3 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. Henry Gates is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He rediscovered the earliest African-American novels, long forgotten, and has published extensively on appreciating African-American literature as part of the Western canon. Rated #5 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

David Theo Goldberg David Goldberg is the director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute, and a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology for the University of California at Irvine. He studied economics, politics, and philosophy from the University of Cape Town before earning a Ph.D. in philosophy from the City University of New York. Rated #10 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

Judith Butler Judith Butler is the Maxine Ellio Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy at Yale University in 1978, and her PhD at Yale in 1984. In addition to UC Berkeley, Butler has taught at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, and the University of Amsterdam. Rated #11 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

William Manning Marable William Marable was an American professor of public affairs, history and African-American Studies at Columbia University. Marable founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He authored several texts and was active in progressive political causes. At the time of his death, he had completed a biography of human rights activist Malcolm X titled Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention , for which Marable won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History. Rated #20 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

James Hal Cone James Cone was an American theologian, best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church. His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus. Rated #30 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

Richard Delgado teaches civil rights and critical race theory at University of Alabama School of Law. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books, many with his wife Jean Stefancic. He is a founder of the critical race theory school of legal scholarship, and is also notable for his scholarship on hate speech, and for introducing storytelling into legal scholarship. Rated #33 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

Ibram Xolani Kendi is an American author, professor, anti-racist activist, and historian of race and discriminatory policy in America. In July 2020, he assumed the position of director of the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University. Rated #36 Influencer by Academic Influencer.

And so now you have seen the faces of some of the top influencers of CRT. You have read about them in their profiles I have provided. You know where they developed and practiced their poison. Now it is up to you to learn how their theories are being used in our public schools.

To know is to be free. De Oppresso Liber. See you next post.