Critical Race Theory (commonly referred to as CRT) is the latest boogeyman dreamed up to scare people from having courageous conversations about race and racism within and beyond our schools. So on August 4, 2021, NYU Metro Center held space for a community conversations, to fully understand how race and racism impacts us all. Our determination was, thus, to refuse resigning ourselves to the most destructive impacts of racial silence—impacts disproportionately felt by racially vulnerable people. We wanted to know what was scaring people in this racial moment? What has prevented us from moving the conversation and, thus, our commitments to racial justice forward? The conversation, facilitated by NYU Metro Center’s Executive Director, Dr. David E. Kirkland, included community voices from courageous educators and educational leaders who joined us to discuss concerns and questions in relation to CRT and to expand the public discourse on what critical race theory is. What we know is that the conversation about race and racism and their impacts on our schools is one that we must have. We also know that the same people proposing and passing anti-CRT legislation are the same people proposing and passing anti-masking, anti-vaxxing, and voter suppression legislation. In holding this space to resist the forces seeking to doom us to the politics of fear and the most disturbing parts of our past, we have boldly and unapologetically decided to cling to the right side of history, to forge a future more promising than our present. Please listen with courage and care. Let’s continue the conversation.