Sublime

The fact is, “exceptional Negroes” have always been a staple of an apartheid-like educational system that separates the “gifted” from the “normal,” and both from the “naughty” or “underachieving.” Sticks and stones will only break my bones, but words can lift or crush me.

The reality is that members of the American left have, whether they like it or not, become the new conservatives. At least in economic policy, they are usually the defenders of the status quo. In contrast, some of the so-called “conservatives” are the radicals seeking major change; at a recent public event, I heard two African American

racially biased threat perceptions,

Ralph Ellisson, dans un ouvrage célèbre, avait qualifié le Noir américain d'« homme invisible ». Mais maintenant qu'il est devenu visible ? Cette nouvelle visibilité soudaine et grandissante qui le cache, en quelque sorte, en tant qu'individu ? Un étrange retour au point de départ. Le Noir américain était réduit à la couleur de sa peau parce qu'il

Andrew Breitbart despised racism. Truly despised it. He used to brag regularly about helping to integrate his fraternity at Tulane University. He insisted that racial stories be treated with special care to avoid even the whiff of racism. With Bannon embracing Trump, all that changed. Now Breitbart has become the alt-right go-to website, with

Adding insult to injury, we’re professionally trained and rewarded to make White people the default referent group that Blacks are measured against. In doing so, we acquire a tendency to center White people in our work.

The processes of dismantlement, privatization, social segregation, and educational inadequacy are going to accelerate. Why? Because we no longer require schools to deliver shared knowledge or even proper worker training to the broad masses. We require them – and this will increasingly be their role – to separate out and protect the deserving