When Civil Rights laws were being passed and the National Guard was sent in to enforce desegregation, the majority opinion among ALL white people was not (to say the least) enthusiastically supportive. These were concessions, extracted reluctantly, due to fear of continued massive social unrest.

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Jim Crow was not rolled back in the Deep South due to large shifts in attitudes among white voters in the South *or* the North. It's an incorrect and ahistorical theory of change to assume that you have to change the attitudes or "fix the information" environment in order to affect change.

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"CRT does not define racism in the traditional manner as solely the consequence of discrete irrational bad acts perpetrated by individuals but is usually the unintended (but often foreseeable) consequence of choices" — Janel George, Director of the Racial Equity in Education Law and Policy Clinic

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Critical Race Theory provides incredibly useful frameworks for explaining Trump voter attitudes. Yet despite CRT having entering the public consciousness in 2020, I still see people struggling to explain these phenomena. One could simply listen to Black scholars and intellectuals.

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"No one voted to deport moms" — yes they did. This is why Critical Race Theory needs to be taught to everyone. It was common for white people to have their "favorite" Black individuals they worked with or employed, while still supporting the Jim Crow system that oppressed Black people as a whole.

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