The outrage over this quote has been wholly manufactured to support the damaging and unfair strawman that black conservatives believe life was better under Jim Crow, and to avoid addressing the tragic implications of family disintegration.
Byron Donalds statement was a juxtaposition of gains and losses for the black community, using the Jim Crow era as a temporal reference point.
Donalds refers to Jim Crow because the end of that era saw tangible policy gains for black Americans. A decline of family integrity that tracks from the point of those gains is relevant to a discussion where generalities and trends about black American families are being discussed.
I don't believe anyone is seriously confused about what's going on here. To paraphrase Glenn, name-calling and caricature appear frequently in the absence of a coherent counter-argument.
The outrage over this quote has been wholly manufactured to support the damaging and unfair strawman that black conservatives believe life was better under Jim Crow, and to avoid addressing the tragic implications of family disintegration.
Byron Donalds statement was a juxtaposition of gains and losses for the black community, using the Jim Crow era as a temporal reference point.
Donalds refers to Jim Crow because the end of that era saw tangible policy gains for black Americans. A decline of family integrity that tracks from the point of those gains is relevant to a discussion where generalities and trends about black American families are being discussed.
I don't believe anyone is seriously confused about what's going on here. To paraphrase Glenn, name-calling and caricature appear frequently in the absence of a coherent counter-argument.