I’ve been seeing this view going around that a young, rising black intellectual like @coldxman took the “easy” route by breaking with liberal consensus; that there is a kind of affirmative action for blacks willing to appear “conservative.” In my experience this is false. 1/
So what? If the gov’t cuts black households a $50K check, we should take it. All manner of white folks get gov’t subsidies and no grief But that won’t happen. Reparations would end up as some fund that supports the kind of big gov’t, top-down programs that have been failing us
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No, not all manner of white folks get subsidies. A tiny fraction of our manners do. Specifically, those born into wealthy powerful families, or the vanishingly small fraction of us who try and succeed in our capitalism.
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