This was powerful and I appreciate your courage in posting this. Many Indian Americans are hesitant to say these things and come out against the black intelligentsia for fear of white people calling us racist. I feel much the same as you about my own life.
Thank you! It is of course a great irony when white people tell us they know our experiences and subsume them under others' for our own good - and then call us the racist ones when we ask to speak for ourselves.
I am a white person, and I have no idea what your experiences have been. I don't know you. Why would I call you "racist" because you want to speak for yourself?
Brilliant! Don’t give them any power. Whenever anyone says any of this garbage I call bullshit. Everyone who has ever said that I’m inherently racist is actually far more racist than I could ever be.
Maybe my reading comprehension is diminished, but I don't understand how someone's existence is a racial crime? What is a racial crime? How can "existing" meet the requirements to be a "crime"? I've never read anything written by this Coates person, and is unlikely I ever will, but usually when I realize I
am reading nonsense, I stop. Maybe I fell bad about the time I wasted reading what I did, but that's about it.
This is Kendi, not Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates is much smarter: I hadn't thought the Confederate flag was a big problem until I read his article on it, which convinced me. Kendi, on the other hand, has no need for trivialities like logical persuasion.
As for what a racial crime is, your guess is as good as mine. It's not like Kendi ever deigns to elaborate on his asinine pronouncements.
This was powerful and I appreciate your courage in posting this. Many Indian Americans are hesitant to say these things and come out against the black intelligentsia for fear of white people calling us racist. I feel much the same as you about my own life.
Thank you! It is of course a great irony when white people tell us they know our experiences and subsume them under others' for our own good - and then call us the racist ones when we ask to speak for ourselves.
I am a white person, and I have no idea what your experiences have been. I don't know you. Why would I call you "racist" because you want to speak for yourself?
Brilliant! Don’t give them any power. Whenever anyone says any of this garbage I call bullshit. Everyone who has ever said that I’m inherently racist is actually far more racist than I could ever be.
Maybe my reading comprehension is diminished, but I don't understand how someone's existence is a racial crime? What is a racial crime? How can "existing" meet the requirements to be a "crime"? I've never read anything written by this Coates person, and is unlikely I ever will, but usually when I realize I
am reading nonsense, I stop. Maybe I fell bad about the time I wasted reading what I did, but that's about it.
This is Kendi, not Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates is much smarter: I hadn't thought the Confederate flag was a big problem until I read his article on it, which convinced me. Kendi, on the other hand, has no need for trivialities like logical persuasion.
As for what a racial crime is, your guess is as good as mine. It's not like Kendi ever deigns to elaborate on his asinine pronouncements.