Fashionable outrage.
Tag Archives: Racism
Heather Mac Donald
Her heart’s not in the right place.
Willful defiance
… is an attribute of blackness.
That is to say, in any given setting, if perhaps 20% of white people would display willful defiance, perhaps 30% of blacks would. The actual differences in proportion are probably much greater.
We will examine first the evidence that this is so, and then consider the ramifications for black prosperity.
I do intend the evidence to be exhausting.
Continue reading Willful defiance
How to talk to white people
My first impulse was to dismiss this. Continue reading How to talk to white people
Note on forthcoming posts
Biting the bullet
It’s OK to be OK.
My core belief is fairly obscure.
I never supposed anyone would attack it directly.
Podcast – Candor
Until black folk love themselves
like white folk love themselves,
there will be no change.
Candor
Related: FBI – UCR – Table 21
Related blog post: Someone stole my tablet.
Related blog post: Many problems, one solution
Related: The Endless Fall of Suge Knight
Music: George Benson, “The Greatest Love of All”
Podcast – I don’t want to live among these people.
That may motivate me to seek my own place.
I don’t want to live among these people.
Related blog post: “Out of reach”
Related blog post: “Housing the homeless ain’t that easy”
Related blog post: “Chaos overwhelms the poor”
Related blog post: “What we need”
Music: The Beatles, “All You Need is Love”
I am exhausted from grieving race.
The practice has done me a ton of damage, and no good.
So now I take a different approach. Continue reading I am exhausted from grieving race.
“Acting White”
Against the notion that blacks victimize themselves by “acting black,” Princeton undergraduate Kristen Coke complains that “acting white” does not insulate her from petty racist insults. After all, she doesn’t act “ghetto.”
I’m not concerned about victimizations that occur when blacks “act white” in the presence of whites. In my world, there aren’t enough white people to matter. I’m concerned about the victimizations that occur when black people “act black” among blacks.
