Reply #1: Interesting and slightly uncomfortable article [View All]

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He skewers the cowardice and lack of insight on both sides of the coin, including Obama jumping up to do the old "black folks need to take responsibility for their communities" schtick (which white folks love because, while true, it absolves them and American culture of alot of isht) but not addressing the culture which leads to they hyper-incarceration of so many black men.

"It is as though we are determined to prove him right — as if our talk about race must be forced into a comfortable and familiar, if false, narrative where villains (“racists”) and heroes (“victims of racism”) are clear-cut, and where all one need do to stand on the right side of history is to engage in a bit of moral sanctimony."

Preach it. And some of the main ones doing that are "progressives" who have convinced themselves that all racists are Southern/Christian/Republican (especially that last one) and that educated white Democrats don't have a racist bone in their bodies!!

"I find laughable, and sad, Professor Gates’s declaration that he now plans to make a documentary film about racial profiling. Is that as far as his scholarship on the intersection of race and policing in America extends? Where has this eminent scholar of African-American affairs been these last 30 years, during which a historically unprecedented, politically popular, extraordinarily punitive and hugely racially disparate mobilization of resources for the policing, imprisonment and post-release supervision of those caught up in the criminal justice system has unfolded?"

Ouch.