Critical Race Theory cannot be strictly defined in a dictionary because it is constantly evolving. Therefore it can only be defined through its major components and examples of those components. Essentially critical race theory does not go along with the social norm. Instead of accepting what society says is right as this righteous law that cannot be wrong nor questioned, it questions everything we do and asks why we do them and asks why are things the way they are. It dares to question the thick fabric of our society. Critical race theory is constantly evolving and changing which is why the only way to truly understand its meaning is to define it through its examples. To think critically about racism brings our society closer to righting wrongs that are currently still in place. Although racism has come a long way it still has a long way to go which is why critical thinking is so important because it helps us see what is really right and wrong. In order to fully comprehend what critical race theory is and how it applies to real life problems and situations here are some examples of its major components, structural determinism, Intersectionality, and social construction. These major components will help to define what critical race theory is. The exact definition of structural determinism according to the book Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic is that it is a “concept that a mode of thought or widely shared practice determines significant social outcomes, usually without our conscious knowledge.” (Delgado-Stefancic, 173). What that means is that we judge people and place them in certain places in the social hierarchy just because of certain traits they might have. For example, when we get predetermined ideas of how someone will behave in our heads just because of their language without giving it a second thought is structural determinism. It is structural determinism because it is simply that, we determine where someone belongs in the structure of a social hierarchy based on their background. In a very real sense it is a way of defining or giving a different interpretation to the word racism. An example of this happens almost every day in the job market amongst African Americans. The black unemployment rate is much higher than the white unemployment rate. According to an article written by Drew Desilver, he got these statistics from the Bureau Labor of Statistics, in the year 2013 the jobless rate amongst blacks was 12.6% while the unemployment rate for whites was 6.6%. There has been many speculations as to why the gap is so huge but there is one common explanation as said by William A. Darity Jr. of Duke University, the blacks are “the last to be hired in a good economy, and when there’s a down turn, they’re the first to be released.”. More often than not a white person is hired or promoted over a black person regardless over who is more qualified. As seen in the case of Calhoun v. Johnson. In this case a black woman did not get a promotion because she was black. Instead the less qualified white man got the job. It was decided and ruled by the court that “the employer’s defense seemed to be a pretext for racial discrimination. Calhoun v. Johnson (D.C. Cir., 2011)”. It was ruled and proved that the hiring manager went out of his way to make sure she did not get the promotion; therefore the court decided that he was in fact acting on racial discrimination. This pertains to the meaning of structural determinism because those statistics and that case refle