I don't know whether you deliberately misunderstand what it is you say or you're trying to fool the rest of us. Black people are the LAST people to subscribe to racial essentialism and identity politics. WE are not the ones who describe ourselves as "different," and we have certainly not asked to be treated differently. We live by a label/identity given to us by whites, who believed a long time ago, and who still believe NOW, that somehow they have the standing and license to identify others as being "them" or "not them" and granting status accordingly.

Blacks did not "decide" or "choose" to identify themselves by "race," since we agree that "race" is a social construct. Your problem is that you seem to neglect that the social construct was created to favor white people and to demean others.

You also fail to define CRT properly, perhaps because you want to continue the conservative practice of confusing people about what it is; an academic practice that itself first defines "race" as a social construct and not the opposite.

I can already hear you saying that you don't give yourself political labels, are open-minded, and hew to neither one party or the other. However, your deliberate misunderstanding of both what CRT is and how "others" are defined and who defines them betrays your belief. And quit trying to use the words of MLK to prove your point. If you really knew what he said, and what you claim he believed, then you might be able to quote more words than the shopworn "...color of skin,...content of...character..." that those who most want to differentiate caste by skin color do. We know which master you serve, and it darn sure isn't the Truth.