"You can see the threads of inadvertantly setting up her son for failure by focusing on blackness and how everything is steeped in 'white supremacy'."
I've pointed to this problem over and over again. It's so depressing that more people can't see it. The current Tate of racial discourse teaches black children that they're doomed to fail. …
"You can see the threads of inadvertantly setting up her son for failure by focusing on blackness and how everything is steeped in 'white supremacy'."
I've pointed to this problem over and over again. It's so depressing that more people can't see it. The current Tate of racial discourse teaches black children that they're doomed to fail. It practically insists that they see themselves as oppressed victims. Regardless of how rich or privileged they are by every reasonable metric.
It teaches them to constantly define themselves in opposition or comparison to white people. And then to feel personally implicated by the areas where black people in general lag behind.
Now, of course, I think *everybody* should be interested in the areas where black people lag behind. At least insofar as some of those disparities were created by a fairly recent legacy of legally-mandated racism (not to mention the centuries long exploitation of Africa and its resources).
But I don't feel insecure because some people believe that black people are inferior or less worthy of credit. I don't tally up the various contributions to humanity by race. I think that's where J is going so very wrong.
"You can see the threads of inadvertantly setting up her son for failure by focusing on blackness and how everything is steeped in 'white supremacy'."
I've pointed to this problem over and over again. It's so depressing that more people can't see it. The current Tate of racial discourse teaches black children that they're doomed to fail. It practically insists that they see themselves as oppressed victims. Regardless of how rich or privileged they are by every reasonable metric.
It teaches them to constantly define themselves in opposition or comparison to white people. And then to feel personally implicated by the areas where black people in general lag behind.
Now, of course, I think *everybody* should be interested in the areas where black people lag behind. At least insofar as some of those disparities were created by a fairly recent legacy of legally-mandated racism (not to mention the centuries long exploitation of Africa and its resources).
But I don't feel insecure because some people believe that black people are inferior or less worthy of credit. I don't tally up the various contributions to humanity by race. I think that's where J is going so very wrong.