Martin Luther King Jr., one of the most famous American civil rights heroes, explicitly rejected critical race theory, or CRT. He understood the racist and divisive ideology of it and opposed it, as King was actually interested in equality and unity. He truly believed that all men (meaning all human beings) are created equal, which is irreconcilable with the belief of critical race theory that there are good and bad races. To heal our nation and achieve true justice, we may want to study MLK.