The documentary, “White Like Me”, shows that a majority of white Americans claim that people of color are getting equal rights and opportunities to succeed as white folks do by using stories like Barack Obama's election. However, they overlook the statistics reports showing the extreme wealth disparity, income, and education gaps–for example, the... See more
A friend of mine recently asked me if I thought everything was systemic. I said I think that’s sort of right. Take systemic racism. I tend to think that while systemic racism exists, “progress” on questions of race is no less systemic. This is not how we like to talk about things in the United States. We imagine entrenched injustice that is righted... See more
Because ultimately this is really about snobbery, a display of moral and intellectual superiority that begins in the academy and percolates through our institutions until it becomes orthodoxy. The irony, of course, is that it claims the culture of progressivism is better than the liberalism it replaced.