Letter: Here's why it's imperative that Americans celebrate Black history

Law affects every aspect of society, particularly in a system where law and order are paramount.

It modifies behavior, and it creates an environment where intellectualism is allowed to flourish to the limits of individual ability. More importantly, law helps provide the parameters in which a level playing field is possible so that everyone has equal opportunity to participate with equal protection under the law.

The United States of America is surely a cognitive democracy. It is a country where old traditions can be re-examined and re-evaluated and can be replaced with better progressive ideas, that emanate from robust debates, driven by well-reasoned and sound arguments.

Critical Race Theory (CRT) argues that the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War, and the 13th Amendment may have ended slavery about a century and a half ago, but its vestiges and legacies still linger on.

One of the landmark cases that changed America, Brown v Board of Education, paved the way to dismantle separate but equal doctrine after years of segregation. That decision by the United States Supreme Court and the civil rights movements that ensued later gave birth to Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act that have profoundly changed the conditions of minorities and women in America.