Sixty years ago, in 1961, John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) published Black Like Me to create awareness among whites of how African-Americans were treated in the South under Jim Crow, the system of laws and customs that took away most rights, privileges and freedoms from African-Americans and treated them as second-class citizens. makes it seem even more unlikely to happen. Some had hoped it would come after the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Mo., or with Colin Kaepernick taking a knee in 2016, or with nine minutes of George Floyd suffocating in 2020. This honest discussion of race for many whites is long overdue.
But African-Americans did not need his book they knew what was going on. Many white readers were shocked to hear the details in Black Like Me. To understand racism today, one must understand the history of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation and discrimination and see the lingering effects that haunt our nation, both in the attitudes of many and in the systemic inequalities found in the criminal justice system, policing, housing, education and health care. These attacks make it even harder to have an honest discussion about race in America. In this environment of stirred-up outrage, some white people claim that they are victims. is not part of most grade school and high school curricula, and is discussed in only a very few college courses. Nor do the attackers seem to know that C.R.T. Not surprisingly, many of these attacks show little or no awareness of the content of critical race theory and the questions that C.R.T. In recent months, a certain slice of conservative media has been busy stirring up outrage over critical race theory.
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