Critical Race Theory Is an Attack on America

On August 28th, 1963, 250,000 Americans travelled to our nation's capital to hear from some of the foremost civil rights leaders from all corners of these United States. Among other speakers, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most famous speeches in American history, entitled “I Have a Dream.” In it, King shared his vision that, “my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” 

King’s March on Washington brought about the biggest and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation in the history of the United States, and his movement ushered in nothing short of a revolution in the way that most Americans thought about race. King was successful in this endeavor not just because he was well-connected, eloquent, and brilliant, though that certainly did help, he succeeded because he was right. King’s framework for race relations, one in which the importance of arbitrary racial divisions could be cast aside, and individuals would succeed or fail on their own merits, was exactly the solution to the racial divisions America was facing. King was right then, and he is right now.