Recent debates about Critical Race Theory have taken a dangerous and well-trod path of misinformation and racial resentment. For whatever reason, White Americans have a very difficult time with the racial reality of American history. Clearly, a large number of White Americans prefer the mythology of the American experiment, where America is an exceptional (and successful) experiment in equal opportunity, limited regulation, and the prosperity and power of market capitalism. This, we are told, is the goal that America set for itself from the very beginning. Anything that departed from this is made a temporary aberration as America continues to “perfect itself” by making these fundamental values more of a reality over time. Ultimately, this story serves as a rallying point for American patriotism, an appeal to shared values that created and sustained a hegemonic force of this republic. Unfortunately, it is not true.