How good intentions may be hurting Black America
John McWhorter, linguist
1619
?Beginning
First wave anti-racism
Civil rights act 1964
Voting rights act 1965
Desegregation, battling disenfranchisement
Second wave anti-racism
1970
Unconscious racism
Not all problems were solved post desegregation
Third wave anti-racism
2020 post George Floyd
Reparations
Is it logical or is a sermon? If it’s not logical, it may a religion
“Passion play” “Minuet” “Virtue signaling”
“Hyperwoke”- internally focused, betrays black communities with gestures, not action
Based on a suspension of disbelief (on extremes, a faith, an ideology, akin to)
Defund the police, Black Lives Matters
”Soft Bigatry of low expections”, if black students do poorly at the test, get rid of it instead of reflecting and changing the underlying reasons for it
Marginalizes people for trying not to be racist but without perfect result
Being fired for saying something judged to be racist because it was about a person of colour
“That’s exotic” (new, novel, we haven’t see this before)
Not for those exploited by racism, but a thing in itself
???meta
If you are not centrally commit battling power difference, you are part of the problem, you are immoral, and you are marginalized and shamed mercilessly.
SUGGESTIONS:
Phonics is better for kids without books at home
Social injustice of not being able to read impacts all further schooling
Distrust your impulse to suppose that people who think like you don’t think like you are either naive or evil.
With any debate, disagreement is not just about facts nor moralities. It’s usually about differing priorities about which you might argue but that’s different from decreeing that people are stupid or bad. And that’s what a diverse and large society is all about. That’s what diversity of opinion is.
From 72. Leaving Black People in the Lurch
April 22.2022
People I (Mostly)Admire
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