So: it seems that Dan-el Padilla Peralta had a true passion for the Classics, but fellow undergrads of color made him feel that this was "acting white," so he assuaged his neurotic racial guilt by studying Classics to destroy them. A story for our time.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/magazine/classics-greece-rome-whiteness.html …
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Yep. Used to be if you were a black kid in an inner city school, you‘d get the shit beaten out of you for studying, being smart, doing well in your classes. Sure hope that’s not still the case.
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I'll have to look that up. I've only recently discovered McWhorter.
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