Falsely crying
racism for political gain is a good way to make some people believe racism
doesn’t exist any more.
I said that on Twitter
this morning and was treated to a barrage of inanity from liberal writers like Matt Yglesias and
Oliver Willis.
But the point I made is true and important. I’ll elaborate here.
Here’s one
problem I think we face in American race relations: Many people, including a
lot of white conservatives, operate under the assumption that racism isn’t
really a problem in America today.
We don’t have
slavery, lynching, or whites-only bathrooms anymore, and in my experience
almost all decent adults aspire to treat people equally regardless of the color
of their skin. I wrote “aspire to.” I don’t think most of us are always
successful at this effort of treating all of God’s children as equals, but we
try, and every year, as a society, we succeed a little bit more, I think....To Read More....
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