Critical race theory made its way into the news in September when President Trump attacked it as part of a “left-wing cultural revolution” and issued a memo ordering federal agencies to stop employee trainings on “white privilege” and critical race theory. In a new statement issued Tuesday to The Washington Post, the presidents said they made the statement because members had asked about critical race theory’s compatibility with the SBC’s faith statement. Without defining critical race theory, they said they recognize the “reality of racism on both the personal and systemic or structural level” but still see critical race theory as incompatible with Baptist teaching. The presidents did not define what they meant by critical race theory or intersectionality, and some Southern Baptists immediately had questions: Why this? Some Southern Baptist leaders said that challenging critical race theory is urgent because they think it implies that Whites are inherently racist.

Source: Washington Post December 23, 2020 11:07 UTC