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I did not read it the first time thru until I saw your post. I agree, the article is a well written description of the struggle in our nation to deal with the racial issues that have been paramount in forming our country.
While the current events in Charlottesville and Durham seem to have brought some harsh times to us, remember, things have been much worse over the centuries in other lands like France, England, Cambodia, China, Turkey, Rwanda, . . . and so on. We tend to kill a lot less often in the struggle.
The author describes the struggles and inequality very well, I think.
Kudos to you for going back and reading it with an open mind.
I wish more people would get off the merry-go-round of fake outrage about fake outrage to begin with - but when something is misinterpreted, it only adds to the pile.
This Harvard Law School professor wants you to know that everywhere the eclipse goes is tied to racism in some way. Even the eclipse itself is racist for crossing land mostly inhabited by white people who unfairly benefit from the electoral college system. It will cross the white part of St. Louis, not the black area, and go directly over the hometown of white rap appropriator Eminem.
I kid you not.
I read the entire essay and was left wondering what her point was. Blacks are only 13% of the population and live predominantly in large cities and the deep south. Of course most geographic areas have few blacks. Does the author expect every community and State to have the exact same demographics? Is she suggesting blacks aren't free to live where they choose? Whatever her point was she was grasping at straws using the symbolism of the eclipse.
I read the entire essay and was left wondering what her point was. Blacks are only 13% of the population and live predominantly in large cities and the deep south. Of course most geographic areas have few blacks. Does the author expect every community and State to have the exact same demographics? Is she suggesting blacks aren't free to live where they choose? Whatever her point was she was grasping at straws using the symbolism of the eclipse.
She won the Absurdity of the day ...... maybe she just wanted to win a contest.
It's not easy to beat a Trojan horse in California.
I finally broke down and read this absurdity after the Trojan Mascot absurdity - we have to decide who wins the contest for the most ridiculous "racist" absurdity.
The Law Professor is the winner - "Presumably, this is not explained by the implicit bias of the solar system."
I vaguely remember when The Atlantic wasn't a shrieking hive of retardation. It was in the 1990s. Ok, maybe the first half of the Bush administration, but that's probably when they totally devolved.
All you've got left is Conor Friederdorf for a quasi-sane take on things. Everyone else is a one-trick-SJW-pony.
The are all a joke and a "one trick pony" isn't even a very good joke.
The Atlantic, New Yorker and Harper's used to be intelligent magazines.
Then they devolved into partisan political hackery.
I can't think of a major circulation magazine out there that isn't stupid.
She says the shadow caused by eclipse starts off the coast of Oregon.
But the map I saw shows it starting in northwest Washington.
People keep saying that she is using a "literary device".
They need to read some great literature -- which doesn't resort to cheap manipulative ploys more appropriate for Hollywood blockbusters and advertising.
Typical SJW -- doesn't understand mockery, irony or humor.
If that's humor, you may want to keep your day job.
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