Cause of Institutional Racism
The existence of institutional racism is a major point of Critical Race Theory (CRT), but the major cause of its existence has not been identified by CRT proponents. They only identified THAT the government was the cause, but not WHY the government was able to promote racism. The institutionalization of racism The institutionalization of racism was given a major boost by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s explicitly racist New Deal policies, passed by a Democrat-controlled Congress and administered by a Democrat administration. These are described in uncomfortable detail in The Color of Law. [1] This government-sanctioned and government-enforced racism is a severe blot on American principles, and the history of the government’s …