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Serious question. What is the average black person? You can't just pick a single statistic and use that to define what average is. You certainly can't pick some
by dcole2929 10y ago
Serious question. What is the average black person? You can't just pick a single statistic and use that to define what average is. You certainly can't pick something as benign as coming from a dual family home. The average AA male is 5'10. Is he not an average black person if he is shorter or taller?
I think overall you missed his entire point, which is basically that it is at best disingenuous to categorize every black person in America as having lived a life of struggle and hardship and at worst racist. His being an entrepreneur is certainly exceptional but his upbringing really isn't. Yet the publication in question basically made the decision that his "blackness" wasn't good material because it didn't contain that element of struggle. That's fine from a narrative perspective I guess but I think he is certainly within his rights to be offended by it.