Steve QJ
1 min readJun 1, 2021

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Yeah, I'm not claiming that she's never experienced racism because she attends an expensive school. I'm sure that she has. But I'm saying that her claim that her "blackness" is marginalised every time she "exists" in her classroom needs something to back it up. She doesn't do that

As for those who *really* struggle with racism, they are, for example, those who are suffering the legacy effects of the "war on drugs". People like Allen Russell (https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/court-upholds-life-sentence-for-man-convicted-of-marijuana-possession/), who is currently serving a life sentence for marijuana possession.

People who live in neighbourhoods with high violent crime because they were trapped there by redlining. People who can't send their kids to decent schools or who don't have reliable internet access or who have to work multiple jobs to make ends meet because they are single parents.

There’s a trend at the moment for certain black people to treat every tiny struggle in their life as if it’s due to racism and as if the fact that they’re black means that they have no priviliges in life. It’s so narcissistic. So much of the conversation about racism is being taken up by privileged black people who can’t tell the difference between their own insecurities and genuine racism, that people who are really struggling, like those I mentioned above, get drowned out.

If a poorly designed diversity training (designed by a black man, remember) brings you to tears, I'd humbly suggest that you need therapy, not more diversity at your already disproportionately diverse school.

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Steve QJ
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