The High Price of Stale Grievances

The High Price of Stale Grievances(quillette.com)

1 points by tor0viking 7 years ago

But to call it a ‘pro-black bias’ slightly misses the mark. It is better described as a tacit acknowledgement that modern-day blacks must be seen through the filter of history—not as autonomous individuals living in the present, but as dominoes in a chain of causation that stretches back to the middle passage. Viewed through this historical filter, blacks cease to be agents, instead becoming “puppets at the end of a string…dangling there… waiting to be made whole,”

This paragraph makes clear that many of the points the author makes here are predicated on the notion that racism is over.

Whatever one makes of the rest of his points, My own life experiences have assured me that he is quite wrong. Blacks aren't living under the consequences of past injustice, judged vicariously through the lenses of history. To even make that assertion is to be blind to the point of absurdity.

Then he trots out this ol' chestnut

Can we speak honestly, for instance, about the fact that blacks make up 14 percent of the population but commit 52 percent of the homicides?

That one made me blink, since there are a lot of other studies that attempt to make sense of this phenomenon, coming up with answers such as income inequality and joblessness, which disproportionately affect blacks.

I actually had to take a step back to consider the website this opinion piece was posted to. I encourage anyone else doubting the veracity of his claims to do the same as part of their conclusion making process.