Hard to take seriously

In his column kast Monday, Bradley Gitz complained about CRT, critical race theory, which he feels is premised on the idea that the nation is fundamentally racist and that this is unfair to whites. I’m sure there is a grain of legitimacy in his concern.

But look in the news section of the same day and you will find an article about a group memorializing the victim of a shooting and lynching in downtown Little Rock in 1927. The individual was 38 and Black and, as it happened, likely had nothing to do with the purported crime, but he was seized by a mob and dragged through the streets of the capital before being killed. There were plenty of witnesses, but of course no one was charged.

Against this backdrop it is very hard to take Gitz’s concerns too seriously, and it will take a lot of work before we should give that kind of thinking any credibility.

MALCOLM HAYWARD

Fayetteville