The racial contract, Mills explained, “can be thought of as an in-group agreement among the privileged to restrict moral and political equality to themselves, and maintain the subordination as unequals of the out-group (here, people of color).”

A belief that government legislatures and courts should lend a helping hand to battle racial discrimination. An emphasis on "equal opportunity" legislation, such as the dismantling of legalized segregation and the establishment of anti-discrimination laws in all aspects of American life.

scholars of CRT are against schools of thought that don't acknowledge racial differences, such. as “color blind” policies, for example, because CRT sees color as something to be celebrated. Liberalism is also criticized by CRT for the ideas that racism is only deliberate aggression and is contrary to the norm.