My 72 y/o mother sees my 5 y/o nephew playing peacefully with a black kid and asks me " why do they even have to teach kids about racism at all? Kids are inherently not racist". Because mom, 5 year old children have no fucking idea what's happening on any level...

It doesn't have anything to do with actual CRT at all. They ignorantly believe racism exists solely because kids are taught that it used to be waaaay worse, as though it can't exist in a vacuum and that there's no way any existing framework could support racism at all...