The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
Luke 4:18-19
This pitting Critical Race Theory against the Gospel is just tiring to me. I do not specifically subscribe to CRT as a coherent belief system, but some of the base ideas underpinning it around how power is constructed and used have helped me name issues in and make sense of this world. At the same time, the Gospel gives me hope in a universal love that is powerful enough to overcome what seems to be impossible odds.
The Jesus I see in the Gospels is a critical Jesus. He is critical of the order of the day, how the poor are disregarded and the sick uncared for, how people are incarcerated and not rehabilitated, how people groan under the yoke of oppression. I doubt Jesus would subscribe to CRT either, but don't let binary thinking cause you to believe he would be simply against it. He'd probably have some parable that seemed to have nothing to do with it as a response, but would completely answer the question for those who had ears to hear.
Speaking of which, when you sit with the parables of Jesus without a dualistic mind, you come out with neither the Supply-Side Jesus preferred by American Evangelicalism nor a Social Justice Jesus that liberal American Christians like to imagine. Read The Parable of the Wedding Banquet (Matthew 22:1-14). Why would people not come to a great banquet put on by the king? Why would they abuse and harm his messengers? Why would the king say "screw it, invite whoever you find on the street"? And why would the guest at the end get thrown out for not being dressed for the wedding?
Supply-Side Jesus followers see "many are invited, but few are chosen" and think the sinners and critical race theorists are getting thrown into the outer darkness. Social Justice Jesus followers see a banquet full of people gathered from the highways and byways, good and bad, and think that the smiting and exclusion of the powerful is just. Neither have answers for why the "bad" people were let in in the first place though, though I'm sure there's disagreement about who the bad people were. While I do think Jesus was particularly concerned about the vulnerable, as evidenced by many of the passages where he was speaking plainly, that is not the entire extent of the scope of the Kingdom of God.
I think Jesus is inviting us to contemplate something more mysterious. I'm not even particularly deeply studied, so I won't posit what that is. But I do think that whatever Jesus is trying to tell us, it's not as simple as "The Gospel negates the need to be concerned about the world or to act for justice in the world." This is something that is perfectly well understood by people who say this when it seems that "Christian values" are under threat around LGBTQ+ issues or abortion. It's less well understood by them when the eye of the society is on the vulnerable, then "God is in control" and we shouldn't do anything about it as a society.
If it's not directly tied to the two great commandments (love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself), I tend to be suspicious of any "obvious" Gospel answers anywhere on the political continuum.