"And too many black people enjoy the cloak of victimhood too much to admit that their lives are already mostly free of racism."
"Mostly" because low expectations is often a well cloaked and hard to prove racism which does matter.
An engineer, who was a black man, once told me that he thought he was not getting respected by receiving challenging and interesting assignments/projects. How does one prove that. Had an MSEE. I didn't, but I got the challenging and interesting projects that all engineers crave. My white privilege? Black people with low expectations of the system might say yes. Could I blame them for thinking that? I'll be honest, I was happy to get respect and challenging projects. I worked my ass off for it. But so did he.
That stuff remains because while not quite stealthy, it is hard to prove.
"And too many black people enjoy the cloak of victimhood too much to admit that their lives are already mostly free of racism."
"Mostly" because low expectations is often a well cloaked and hard to prove racism which does matter.
An engineer, who was a black man, once told me that he thought he was not getting respected by receiving challenging and interesting assignments/projects. How does one prove that. Had an MSEE. I didn't, but I got the challenging and interesting projects that all engineers crave. My white privilege? Black people with low expectations of the system might say yes. Could I blame them for thinking that? I'll be honest, I was happy to get respect and challenging projects. I worked my ass off for it. But so did he.
That stuff remains because while not quite stealthy, it is hard to prove.
Or to disprove.
Which allows people to make different assumptions which suit their confirmation bias, not easily subject to objective falsification.
On both sides.