When it comes to understanding race in America, should we listen to a wealthy old white guy, or a black man from Georgia? Now that's a tough one. For some odd reason, I can bet just who most liberals will choose to listen to in order to get the best understanding of the plight of the black Americans. If anything else speaks to the post-modern, 21st Century mindset more accurately, I'm at a loss to think what it could be.
When it comes to understanding race in America, should we listen to a wealthy old white guy, or a black man from Georgia?
ReplyDeleteThe problem with Biden is not that he's wealthy, old, or white. It's that he's demented and was dishonest before he was demented.
Blacks have no magic which makes them more insightful about social relations. They do rub up against the color boundary a great deal more. They also know more about day-to-day life in black populations, though not about the inner life of whites relating to blacks or about phenomena which can only be understood with aggregate measures.
That's so true. The whole 'only a person in certain groups can speak to those groups except white men' spin of the last few decades has created its own contribution to the modern madness. But I had to think of such a headline where 'Corey Booker and George Bush offer diverging views of race in America.' I'm just not seeing that one on the headline banners.
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