treva: thank you for asking.he first thing we have to reckon with is that in may of 2020, amidst a global pandemic, we also saw one of the biggest and sustained uprisings in response to police brutality, in response to racism, in response to histories of injustice in this country, and frankly throughout the globe. i think it is important to put that in context, because more people are reading about antiracism, looking into theories and studies and authors and scholars and organizers in recent memory than ever before. to process what was happening, to process the killing of george floyd, of breonna taylor, to look at mass incarceration, to look at policing, you are seeing demand and a groundswell of national debates about our contemporary moment. i think what we are seeing in the pushback on critical race theory is the politicalization further of those conversations and this retrenchment from the ideas that equality, equity, and justice matter as principled values for many of us. you are able to mobilize and galva