Article: I USED CRITICAL RACE THEORY FOR 23 YEARS IN THE New York City PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS--AND DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT! - This essay is intended as a primer of sorts on critical race theory (CRT), what it is, why it's under attack, giving an historical overview of the emergence of white suppremacy and how the basic CRT tenets are essential to any truthful accounting of u.s. history