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/
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I’ve been around long enough to feel pretty sure that if a talent as precocious as Hughes was looking to *maximize* his chances of success, he’d get farther faster by finding brilliantly arguing the views his group and its influential allies most want to hear. That’s obvious. /2
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That he insists he is not a conservative and votes left makes it seem likely to me that what he is doing is thinking for himself and arguing what he genuinely believes. And as we have seen there can be a steep cost to pay for that. /3
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It reminds me of when Jay Z rapped: “Whoever said illegal was the easy way out couldn't understand the mechanics And the workings of the underworld” /4
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Likewise, whoever said being the minority-within-the-minority was the *easy* way up doesn’t understand the mechanics and the workings of the contemporary mainstream media landscape and fellowship/award ecosystem. (Maybe it was true in the past, but it’s no longer the case.) /Fin
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Real talk. Most of the people saying that Hughes is “unqualified” to trade views with TNC would be bugging him up if he was expressing the correct view. And his view isn’t even that far from the pro-reparations camp
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