The Great Awokening and Performative Justice

Derrick Bell, a legal scholar in critical race theory, is known for the notion of “interest convergence”: the idea that real progress in race relations only occurs when it aligns with the interests of the white majority. While there’s a nugget of truth here—even the best movements for justice can be tainted by conscious or subconscious selfishness—the result is corrosively cynical, another application of the acid of critical theory that portrays even genuine racial progress as inescapably racist