5. Podhoretz resents Mrs. K because she began process of his alienation from roots but also sees her as necessary for his social rise.
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6. Podhoretz explicitly notes that Mrs. K was not interested in mentoring the black students she also had.pic.twitter.com/UB0OxshONH
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7. Cut to 1963, Podhoretz is editor of Commentary, upper-middle-class & gets into argument with James Baldwin.
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8. In heated argument Podhoretz basically tells Baldwin that blacks are the real racists.
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9. Podhoretz: “Neither I nor may ancestors had ever wronged the Negroes";
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10. Podhoretz "I had grown up in an ‘integrated’ slum neighborhood where it was Negroes who persecuted the whites & not other way around."
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11. What's amazing is that Podhoretz can't see the obvious contradiction in his own memoirs: blacks not given educated but are privileged.
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that you can't see that he's writing of his experience as a member of a disfavored minority doesn't speak well of you
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Being member of disfavored minority gives him to right to lie?
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not seeing his teacher as part of the neighborhood, but as a representative of the larger world whence she came is lying? No.
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As teen he was already aware he was heading for Ivy League & his black classmates weren't. That's reality he's lying about.
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I read a boy who inherited a frame from his father which explained the few square blocks of a young boy's life
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and who abandoned that frame later, and yet continued to see himself as an outsider for multiple reasons
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