Maybe I’m missing something but I actually understand Kmele’s post-race argument as a sound one. Think about it. The problem seems to be that the more a group identifies as A Group, the more susceptible they are to seeing overarching societal factors as the problem. Certainly there must be some degree of truth to that. But isn’t a lot of what’s going on here more about perception management a la the leftist media? For example, the narrative that black men are being murdered by racist white cops every two seconds, when we know the number is roughly 15-20 a year, in a nation of 340 million. Does this contribute to the perception of structural racism? Does this back up a group victim narrative? This can be for any group, say white working class in Trump country, too. Etc. Wouldn’t it be more ideal to ditch your racial group Association and think of yourself as a free individual with agency and worth? Couldn’t you then take concrete steps to succeed? The education and cultural parts seem most problematic to me here. Like the article said: We’re living in a time when real serious racial havoc is actually over. Systemically, legally, culturally we’re just much, much less racist as a nation than say 50 years ago. What remains is the battle over perception, narrative, belief, facts.
Maybe I’m missing something but I actually understand Kmele’s post-race argument as a sound one. Think about it. The problem seems to be that the more a group identifies as A Group, the more susceptible they are to seeing overarching societal factors as the problem. Certainly there must be some degree of truth to that. But isn’t a lot of what’s going on here more about perception management a la the leftist media? For example, the narrative that black men are being murdered by racist white cops every two seconds, when we know the number is roughly 15-20 a year, in a nation of 340 million. Does this contribute to the perception of structural racism? Does this back up a group victim narrative? This can be for any group, say white working class in Trump country, too. Etc. Wouldn’t it be more ideal to ditch your racial group Association and think of yourself as a free individual with agency and worth? Couldn’t you then take concrete steps to succeed? The education and cultural parts seem most problematic to me here. Like the article said: We’re living in a time when real serious racial havoc is actually over. Systemically, legally, culturally we’re just much, much less racist as a nation than say 50 years ago. What remains is the battle over perception, narrative, belief, facts.
Michael Mohr
‘Sincere American Writing’
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/