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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.