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I don't think she "misspoke" regarding black women most educated. It's a kind of meme that catches the minds of many credulous or confused people. Google that phrase and you will find articles claiming it on black-focused or feminist publications (The Root, Essence, Independent.UK) - it's based it a really obvious misunderstanding that a relative gender gap within black people is not the same as an absolute level of education.

Another obvious confusion on Briahna' part (does anyone know what she was getting at?) came in the discussion about black/wed Out Of Wedlock (OOW) birth rates and the wealth/income gaps. Glenn speculated or claimed that OOW births are a detriment to wealth creation and savings, which has contributed to the racial gap. Briahna "countered" with the fact that the white gap has also risen. But since she mentioned both OOW rates had risen in parallel and were still separated by a space roughly equal to 50 years ago, why did she think this was evidence against Glenn's point? It was incoherent, she just had an allergic reaction to the thought that Glenn might have been correct.

As to Briahna conceding that "the left" plays up certain stats and ignores inconvenient other ones - that struck me a particularly true and close to home, since the first time I'd come across her was in a discussion with Coleman Hughes were she spent way too much time fighting him and being in denial about the leading cause of death for young black men being homicide (mostly from other black young men).

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Coleman definitely said "young." She couldn't bring herself to accept it. She also displayed the same "if stats disrupt my narrative then they are hateful and dangerous and should be suppressed" mindset.

I'm left wondering if her "black women are the most educated" meme is something she truly believes or if she is intentionally misrepresenting. You would think someone in her inner circle would have disabused her by now.

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"someone in her inner circle" has the same biases and blindnesses as she does. I would bet a lot of money that Briahna and those close to her believe this ludicrous claim.

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