Radley Balko’s masterful evisceration of Coleman Hughes’s piss poor stab at being A Great American Truth Teller

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    6 months ago

    That said I’m also something if a Hughes fan

    I, too, am a fan of a black guy who went to private school and then Columbia telling everyone that race should always be ignored.

    I am a great admirer of the people who pull up the rope after they’ve climbed the wall and let all the others get eaten by the tigers.

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        6 months ago

        Love him? No. That has to do with who he is as a man.

        Love the fact that a black man who grew up poor was able to take advantage of programs to help poor black people due to their systemic mistreatment and rise to that level of power? Absolutely.

        I wonder why you brought up Clarence Thomas and not Thurgood Marshall?

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          6 months ago

          telling everyone that race should always be ignored.

          I am a great admirer of the people who pull up the rope after they’ve climbed the wall and let all the others get eaten by the tigers.

          Seemed like sarcasm to me and Clarence is all about pulling the rope up behind him.

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            6 months ago

            Sorry, your reply was also meant as sarcasm? My apologies.

            Although I think Thomas (and what he tries to destroy) is exactly why Hughes is wrong. And why conservatives like him should be glad he’s wrong due to their getting Clarence Thomas because of trying to address systemic racism even in small ways.

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      6 months ago

      “I too, am a fan of a black guy who went to private school and then Columbia telling everyone that race should always be ignored”

      This notion of a “color blind society” boasts the same flaws inherent within notions like “being non-judgmental”. There are many ways to define these terms, some of which are more sane and functional than others