I honestly couldn't care less. In fact, I'd be happy. If the white people who thought that CRT was a productive way to help black people decide to give up, I'll consider my work to have been a success. They obviously hadn't given a moment's thought to how they could genuinely help black people as opposed to making themselves feel like the "good guys".

I don't judge the value of a contribution by the colour ofthe person making it. I judge it by whether there is any hope that it will actually improve black lives and outcomes. CRT won't.

I keep finding that people who argue in favour of CRT have an attitude of "it's better that we're doing something, even if it's not any good". This attitude is only possible if you don't have a stake in the success of those efforts. You are not an ally because you “did something", if that something sabotaged the people you were ostensibly trying to help. Please get that clear in your head.

And yes, violence accompanies almost any movement for progress, but you're wrong in your conclusion. What produced change was the quiet, tireless and largely unsung work of the men and women who lobbied and did grass roots work and did the hard, thankless work of changing people's minds through difficult conversations.

The people who wanted to feel the glory of revolution throughout history invariably fucked things up catastrophically on the occasions that they actually gained power. For them, as for CRT advocates today, true progress ws never the point, they never seriously thought about the world they were trying to create. They just enjoyed tearing shit down. I despise people like that.