Never let it be said that I refuse a good challenge. This challenge was brought on by a previous visitor who challenged me on my framing, actually it was a warning, that Derrick Bell was a Marxist using Freudian language to frame his flawed racist ideology:

Cheryl von Tress  – I view your linking of CRT to Marxist-Freudian ideological propaganda as over-reaching.  What’s your evidence for such a link.? […]

Well, you asked.   Video and Transcript: Derrick Bell Describes Marxist Foundation of Critical Race Theory in 2007:

But I thought according to Soledad O’Brien, Critical Race Theory was just about the intersection of race and politics and stuff?
On a related note, does this (pdf) remind of you anything?

The empathethic perspective also comes from the Critical Race Theory tradition, which suggests that a diverse judiciary greatly shapes judicial decision making, legal analysis, and, by extension, the law itself. Specifically, judges who hail from different social or cultural backgrounds may provide a more nuanced understanding of facts, evidence, and credibility determinations than judges who lack such experience.

Yes, apparently President Obama’s guiding philosophy in selecting judges – “empathy” – is rooted in Critical Race Theory. Small wonder then that his first nominee to the Supreme Court will forever be remembered for opining that a “wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life”.
Oh, and Elena Kagan, Obama’s other Supreme Court pick? Not only did she confer credibility on Bell by publishing his radical writings at Harvard, but she also gave a seminar in 1993 where she opined (pdf) that the issues raised by Critical Race Theory were “among the most important questions in all of American law”.
You know, questions like: does our Constitution serve only to perpetuate a system of racial subordination? And: was Karl Marx right?