This is how I see it. Resentful for the racism that still exists, and for being part of a culture that doesn’t have cultural dominance because numbers. (Although black culture is indivisible from American culture and is celebrated. But that’s apparently invisible because it’s not good enough I guess) I agree with Kendi that people without conventionally recognized intelligence should still be valued. Black or white. Where this leads him is bizarre. Achievement doesn’t have a race. Achievement can be living a decent life using what talent you have, no matter who you are. But kendi himself plays the game he’d define as a white man’s game. He’s obviously playing a racist game himself for reducing a human being to one factor. Just from the other side. It’s puzzling why the educated classes went so far down this road with him. Does resentment plus white guilt produce an intellectual Procrustean bed?
This is how I see it. Resentful for the racism that still exists, and for being part of a culture that doesn’t have cultural dominance because numbers. (Although black culture is indivisible from American culture and is celebrated. But that’s apparently invisible because it’s not good enough I guess) I agree with Kendi that people without conventionally recognized intelligence should still be valued. Black or white. Where this leads him is bizarre. Achievement doesn’t have a race. Achievement can be living a decent life using what talent you have, no matter who you are. But kendi himself plays the game he’d define as a white man’s game. He’s obviously playing a racist game himself for reducing a human being to one factor. Just from the other side. It’s puzzling why the educated classes went so far down this road with him. Does resentment plus white guilt produce an intellectual Procrustean bed?