Baltimore Confronted Its Crime Problem by Abandoning Social Justice Platitudes

In a 2003 essay titled “Crossroads and Blind Alleys,” legal scholar Richard Delgado offered a scathing critique of critical race theorists, who, he argued, valued performative “activism” over strategies that could make real, material differences in the lives of minority groups.

This criticism is nothing new. Delgado, however, is a critical race theorist himself. In fact, he is one of the founding fathers of CRT and has been a prominent name in the field since its inception in the 1970s.

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In a 2003 essay titled “Crossroads and Blind Alleys,” legal scholar Richard Delgado offered a scathing critique of critical race theorists, who, he argued, valued performative “activism” over strategies that could make real, material differences in the lives of minority groups.

This criticism is nothing new. Delgado, however, is a critical race theorist himself. In fact, he is one of the founding fathers of CRT and has been a prominent name in the field since its inception in the 1970s.