A lot of what passes among protestors today for thought finds its origins in Critical Race Theory. Critical Race theory finds its origins in Marxism. Marxism finds its roots in a pre-Christian understanding of man (old fashioned inclusive masculine) as subject to forces beyond our control.  The whims of Zeus, the anger of Thor, the finger of fate, the claim of destiny have all given way to impersonal imperatives which control history.

For Marx history is not shaped by individuals but by groups driven by economic imperatives. Critical Race theory posits a world where people are driven by a foundational imperative to form groups, based on race, in order to acquire, enjoy and hold on to power.

In this world view individuals will sublimate their will to the will of their group. The group then influences the choices of the individual. Groups in dynamic interrelationship with one another determine individual choices.  There can be no individual free choice. There is only group agency.  Individual agency simply does not exist.  

Critical Race Theory postulates a world where the will to power is so great that it consumes individual free will and individual agency. Yet at the same time some people can rise above this fierce power, awaken to reality and become allies of the oppressed, a vanguard of the future. So which is it? Is the will to power irresistible or not? Is it a foundational imperative or not?

Looking at the people who seem to hold to Critical Race Theory, I have to ask. If a teenaged college student can break free of systemic racism, the imperative to amass power, and group think, how strong can those things be?

If systemic racism is so weak that an adolescent can overcome it, why have people not tackled it before? Oh wait. William Wilberforce, the Civil War, the Civil rights era, the voting rights act, Affirmative Action, the war on Poverty, to name just a few.

My old seminary professors would say that as a theory it is internally and externally incoherent. Internally because the will to power cannot be both so strong as to control the choices of all the people in the world and so weak that it can be so easily fought off. Externally because history and society are filled with examples of individuals, movements and nations fighting against the very racism that the Woke believe has controlled the ages.

Critical Race Theory makes no sense. Not Biblically, not spiritually, not historically, not socially. In order to buy into the movement I would have to abandon free will, logic, history and the evidence of my own eyes.   This is probably why I keep being told that reason, history, logic and critical thinking are racist. I suspect that someone is lying to me about that. I also suspect that incoherent theories of social organization can only be held together by violence. That is what we see today in American cities.