The problem with this quasi-cerebral look at the complex issue of race in 21st-century America may trace its roots to Cooper’s skin color (black), her ideology (liberal), or some combination thereof. The title, “White supremacy wins again: Melissa Harris Perry and the racial false equivalence,” prepares the reader only slightly for the victimist claptrap that follows.
The essay, if it can fairly be called that, is neatly compartmentalized in terms of its ideas, all of which are as tired as they are predictable. First comes the de rigueur accusation that the GOP (blanket term for conservatives as a whole) is dishonest on questions of race and “averse at the policy level to the social and political condition of African-Americans, and this has been demonstrated in everything from attempts to disenfranchise black voters to the wholesale turn to obstructionism as a primary governing strategy.”
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Ms. Cooper...Pathetic, simply pathetic...
ReplyDeleteI would ask her this....WHEN are black people going to be held responsible for THEIR own political and social "conditions"?
ReplyDeleteNo white person I know of has impregnated millions of black women, forced a black person to live in ghetto public housing for GENERATIONS, made black kids drop out of school, demanded that they sell drugs and ruin their own neighborhoods, etc.
As someone who grew up VERY poor, I never thought it was anyone else's fault and didn't seek to blame anyone, nor thought it was anyone else's responsibility to GIVE me anything to make my life better. And no one ever gave me a job because I was WHITE.
Don't have 4-5 kids you can't support. Stay in school. Don't lead your kids into believing that they are the next football/basketball star and school isn't important. Don't let your kids hang out til 1AM on a school night. Marry the father of your child. WORK HARD.
It's amazing how all that will relieve white people of the burden of fixing your "condition". You'll actually be fixing it yourself.