Hey guys, my name is Johnny Artivantis and this is dial-in. In this episode, I sit down with

Darrell Harrison of the Just Thinking podcast and ask him, what is critical race theory and why is

it dangerous? Let's dial in.

Well, Darrell, I'm so thankful to be sitting down with you today.

Darrell, you have a podcast, just thinking podcasts, and it's been such a tremendous resource

to so many people.

I wanted you to break down and simplify something for us today, and that is, what is critical race theory? And then after you answer

what it is, can you tell us why it's dangerous?

Yeah, so Johnny, let me begin this way by, I like to describe critical race theory as an ideology,

as a worldview. It's a generational worldview. And what I mean by that is it's not just

critical race theory on its own.

Critical race theory is the child of critical legal studies, which is the child of critical theory.

So you've got three, quote, unquote, generations of worldviews there that you really have to

walk through. So if you don't mind, I'm going to start at the earlier worldview and they'll work our

way back up. So critical theory, that term was coined by a German philosopher, sociologist by the name of Max Horkheimer in 1923

to describe the work that they were doing at the Frankfurt School in Germany.

So Horkheimer was a Marxist.

And then the Frankfurt School comes along in 1937,

morphed into what you may be familiar with

is known as the Institute for Social Research.

Some called the Frankfurt School.

So you go from the early 1920s

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