It Bears Mentioning
One facet of our racial reckoning: putting a stamp of approval on pretending not to understand the difference between using it and referring to it
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Tracing, facing and erasing what psychology titles the Victimhood Mentality will be key to, among other things, saving America's educational system.
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Apr 26Comment 170Share
The roots of this notion polluting our schools that it's racist to make a black student actually answer the question.
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Otherwise, our conversation on race is deeply and perniciously fake.
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Serial excerpt No. 7: Why do so many kind, normal people join something so illogical and punitive?
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Expanding on my toss-off, because I have thought a lot about it.
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A correction on my Atlantic piece, since many think I don't know about slavery while others are just fetishizing the dictionary.
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Apr 5Comment 12Share
I suspect the latter, but have little hope that our national conversation could allow it -- yet maybe progress can happen anyway.
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