As much as it pains me to agree with Mike Pence about anything at all, your framing of this is so strange.
Do you think adopting the idea that, “individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin," would be a *good* thing?
There's a huge difference between saying "an individual isn't personally responsible for the actions of their ancestors", or "we shouldn't judge individuals based on immutable attributes like skin colour", and saying, "we can't talk about the history of racism and how it impacts the present".
CRT is an absolutely toxic and hopelessly flawed ideology which infantilises and disempowers black people. Its "racism is everything and everywhere" approach gives racists the ammo they crave when they want to ridicule genuine efforts to fight racism. And yes, it creates division by telling people that they're complicit in things that happened before they were born.
The Civil Rights movement has been making strides without CRT for decades. Not a word of CRTs ideology was ever uttered by MLK or Maya Angelou or James Baldwin. We absolutely can and should still talk about and oppose racism without CRT. It's not an either/or situation.
Because whether or not "the point" of CRT is to inflame divisions, the fact is that it does. And for no benefit that I can see (believe me, I've been looking). In fact, there's plenty of evidence of the division it causes:
