Steve QJ
1 min readAug 15, 2021

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I'm not sure what you mean here. Three evil men killed Emmett Till. Not White America. Not its legal system. Not its laws. I simply can't extend their sin to all white people because they share a skin tone.

The law isn't irrelevant of course. The fact that there was never any real chance of them going to jail is beyond relevant. But as George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery and Trayvon Martin and countless others show, even when going to jail is a real threat, some people still have disdain for the lives of black people.

I'm not denying the existence of systemic racism at all. But CRT is (or let's say some CRT scholars are) horribly imprecise about diagnosing it. The idea that any racial inequity (note, not inequality) is evidence of racism is so preposterous that I feel bad even arguing the point.

And even worse, the solutions people like Kendi propose (I know he doesn't call himself a critical race theorist but his work is very obviously influnced by it. He admits as much himself) are so dystopian that they should scare the life out of anybody, black or white. I can't believe his suggestion of a Department of Anti-Racism didn't immediately end his career.

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Steve QJ
Steve QJ

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