Who is Richard Delgado? Critical Race Theory creator reveals vile hate he has received for over a year
One of the founders of the critical race theory (CRT) movement has claimed that he and his wife have received a number of awful threats in the past few months. Richard Delgado spoke up about the hate he and his wife Jean Stefancic -- both of whom have written several books on critical race theory -- have been getting from people across the country with Axios on Friday, December 3.
The 82-year-old, who is Mexican American, said, “We get some of the grossest telephone messages that you can imagine...Some of the stuff is hard to believe. It's full of venom.” He also mentioned that he and Stefancic have reportedly been accused of “of eating children, wanting to destroy the US, and hating white people,” before adding: “Those emails and voicemails have been steady for a year now.”
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Delgado stated that in the last 50 years of his work around CRT, he never got such angry and hateful reactions. He told Axios, “Before then, critical race theory had had a pretty easy glide path. We wrote our books. We developed our theories. We taught our classes. We published law reviews,” before he went on to blame “the new anger over critical race theory on those who are upset over former President Donald Trump's loss in 2020 and the nation's changing racial demographics.”
The law professor at the University of Alabama also alleged that the coronavirus has a lot to do with it. He noted that the pandemic gave parents the opportunity to have conversations with their kids. Besides, during the Black Lives Matter protests, parents understood that their children held more progressive views on race. Delgado said, “Parent lost it. They blamed the teachers for indoctrinating their kids, even though the kids are growing up in a more diverse world.”
CRT has become a constant point of contention in school board meetings across the nation. Conservatives have accused it of being anti-White and also showed concern that it is being taught in schools. But Delgado and Stefancic explain CRT as “a collection of activists and scholars interested in studying and transforming the relationship among race, racism, and power.” Also, a national teacher's union claimed in July that CRT has not been introduced in schools yet. President Randi Weingarten said that the controversial academic theory is not a part of school students’ curriculum. She said it’s part of college or graduate studies, “but culture warriors are labeling any discussion of race, racism or discrimination as [critical race theory] to try to make it toxic”.
Who is Richard Delgado?
The website of the University of Alabama describes Delgado as “Author of over 200 journal articles and 20 books,” which has been “praised or reviewed in The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. His books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association’s Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Professor Delgado’s teaching and writing focus on race, the legal profession, and social change.”
Delgado’s books are -- ‘Latinos and the Law, ‘The Latino/a Condition, Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America and Justice at War: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights During Times of Crisis. Also, eight books written by him have been honored with national awards, including "six Gustavus Myers Awards for outstanding books on human rights in North America, the American Library Association’s outstanding academic book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination".