Rahul Karnik at The Equiano Project casts his eye over the different reactions to Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch’s speech reminding the teaching profession of their duty of political impartiality and the yet unproven status of Critical Race Theory:
CRT is, like all theories, not infallible, and may be criticised from both the left and the right. While Koram has acknowledged some of CRT’s weaknesses, he did not admit that applying the theory must begin with the (fallible) assumptions that racism is omnipresent, the product of white people (and white people alone) and perpetuated via supposedly white concepts such as objectivity and science. Since Both Koram and Lunn apply elements of CRT to their research, to acknowledge the weakness of these foundational premises would be to undermine their own work.