I think this is a really excellent essay and I enjoyed it very much. I am not a huge fan of CRT as I think that viewing everything through a single academic lens is an issue. Every lens becomes the default lens through which their adherents insist things are always viewed. I remember experiencing this when at Uni and having a Psychology professor who refused to accept anything that wasn't viewed through an evolutionary psychology lens. Everything can be explained away with a sufficiently motivated group and a specifically focussed lens. I suspect CRT fits into this category too.

Having said that, the general lessons around tolerance, being kind and systemic oppression are ones that need to be taught to children - I suspect outside of the last two years, such things happened all the time - but it has now become such a politicised issue that the baby is being thrown out with the bathwater. This is why I'm critical of progressives who take an illiberal stance to issues. Liberal democracy was working and now we're taking more steps backwards than forwards - people feel like progress is being made because that's what they hear from their echo chambers - in reality, it's stagnant or possibly taking a step back.

I think your views are interesting when compared with Steve QJ, and his piece which touches on CRT has a take on it that I haven't heard before. If you haven't read it, then it comes highly recommended.

https://medium.com/illumination-curated/the-hidden-cost-of-our-racial-fixation-312b13a74b9f