I pretty much agree with a majority of what you're saying in this piece, Steve.

I broke it down the principles of this discourse even further, in this op-ed of mine, where I dissected a debate about CRT from Dr. Phil's daytime talk show last year:

https://medium.com/perceive-more/you-cant-have-c-r-t-without-r-e-s-p-e-c-t-99662261c050