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Ironic that you claim this when a Harvard professor was treated much more like a common criminal than a member of an elite institution. Perhaps it's not the col
by greedo 5y ago
Ironic that you claim this when a Harvard professor was treated much more like a common criminal than a member of an elite institution. Perhaps it's not the color of skin in your example that matters, but the financial and social class.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/22/henry-louis-gates-arrested-at-home https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/22/henry-louis-ga...
- oh_sigh 5y agoI love when elites talk like "Yeah, I'll speak with your mama outside". It's entirely plausible that a white person who was accused of breaking into their own home would not be arrested for disorderly conduct afterwards, because they wouldn't view the event as being part of a larger narrative against their race. All of that could happen without anyone actually doing anything wrong.
- vimy 5y agoYou don't seem to grasp what I'm saying. This professor is part of the elite. He has elite friends, elite interests, elite ideas about society. It's not because he experienced racism that he suddenly has the same worldview as a black factory worker. The idea that someone with a different skin color automatically has different views, which I believe is the whole implicit idea behind diversity being positive for society, is just plain wrong.
- greedo 5y agoThe point is that even working at the pinnacle of American education, a black man, no matter how many degrees, how many letters, how much money in the bank, is treated the same as a black janitor. Assumed guilty by the police, treated like dirt.