They are not leaving to defend CRT. They are leaving because of what the pushback against CRT says to them. They are hearing that denominational leaders care more about appeasing a small group of angry, white leaders than standing with their brothers and sisters of color. https://twitter.com/purisomniapura/status/1344659537769476101

Ironically, the anti-CRT voices are doing exactly what the most totalitarian of the CRT voices do: define any pushback as full complicity in the other side.

This is the pattern:

(1) Define all discussion of injustice or biblical implications for racial injustice as “CRT” or “Cultural Marxism”

(2) Label anyone/thing applying biblical truth to racial issues “CRT/a cultural Marxist”

(3) Stir controversy through misrepresentation

(4) Trigger responses from influential leaders who are concerned about the problems with CRT

(5) Correlate those responses to the misrepresented individuals

(6) Say “point proven” when those individuals begin to disassociate with a group that keeps slanderously calling them heretics

The problem is that the responses to CRT accept the premise of the charge that certain black leaders/allies are basically Marxists. The response to CRT answers the wrong question asked by the wrong people often (from my view) in bad faith.

I think a big divide is between those who (1) lived through the Conservative Resurgence and those who (2) only learned about it. The first/older group is more concerned about liberalism (from their experience). The second/younger group has experienced only conservative theology.