Are Privileged Blacks the Woke's Next Target?
with John McWhorter
The oppressor/oppressed binary is at the core of wokeness or Kendiesque antiracism or whatever you’d like to label it. Black people are always oppressed and white people are always oppressors. But Winkfield Twyman, co-author of Letters in Black and White: A New Correspondence on Race in America, asks if relatively privileged black Americans, especially descendants of recent African immigrants, will someday find themselves labeled oppressors as well. John and I consider the question.
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I highly doubt they are the next target. Most black wokesters I know are privileged, and proudly so. Racial reckoning for them means the right to sit in First Class and rail against racism.
Maybe, but they seem to have their hands full demonizing the Jews and Israelis at this time.