D from racism, as the Grammy and Emmy award-winning artist Donald Glover recently claimed? Is ancestral suffering actually transmitted to descendants? Hughes goes on to lament the double standard the public applies to famous black writers. The celebrated journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates provides another example of the lower ethical standard to which black writers are held.
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In his recent essay collection, he doubled down on this pitiless sentiment: I had no sympathy for the firefighters, and something bordering on hatred for the police officers who had died. From a white writer, an innocuous tweet provokes histrionic invective. But we make an exception for blacks. Indeed, what George Orwell wrote in seems more apt today: An identical piece with the races reversed would rightly be relegated to fringe white supremacist forums.
Progressives ought not dodge the question: Why are blacks the only ethnic group routinely and openly encouraged to nurse stale grievances back to life?
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Read the whole thing. Hughes is a black undergraduate at an Ivy League university, yet he has no been afraid to say what has been unsayable. That man has guts.
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By the way, his essay is not merely an exercise in whataboutism. He addresses real philosophical and moral concerns in it. For example, in a previous job, I observed that some liberals in the newsroom viewed local Muslims through the lens of the culture war between liberals and conservatives, and did not want to hold them to the same standard with regard to extremist rhetoric, apparently because doing so might encourage conservatives in their own biases. In his written work and spoken advocacy, Curry advocates what can only be described as anti-white hatred.
But there is a different standard for bigots from the left. This is precisely the double standard that Coleman Hughes decries. It is lucrative for radicals like Curry, Coates, and others, but a just society should hold us all to the same standard of discourse and morality. But I wish that the urgency with which these officials moved to discipline this young man had been applied to the school officials who created a hostile learning environment for black female students.
It is remarkable that school officials took Bell's song, which sounds like an obvious attempt at blowing off steam, as a credible threat meriting immediate attention, while at the same time they took the concerns of the young women in their school who reported harassment and assault as something less than serious. A group of rappers including Killer Mike, T. Though this decision was later overturned, it is the reason we have explicit advisory labels on rap albums today. The school believed that a young man would shoot two adults over rape threats.
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To be clear, I don't condone the taking of lives or use of violence to defend political causes. But the defense of women's right to choose and to be safe from rape is never the thing that causes the violence in the first place. The school took no action against the coach. Instead, all the young women were suspended from the team.
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Earlier this month, the school issued a statement standing by their decision to support the coach. Not only are the attempts to call attention to sexual violence in schools frequently not taken seriously; when black students actively protest this violence, they are often the subjects of severe disciplinary measures. Much of this case, if the Supreme Court chooses to hear it, will focus on whether students have the right to use incendiary speech in off-campus venues.
Increasingly, courts have limited students' free speech rights, so that, for instance, actual threats made on social media about school might be taken seriously. But what we need to be talking about is how to legally support students who point out serious safety issues in their own schools, and how to protect them from the reprisal of school officials and the criminal justice system.
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He neither intended to, nor ever did in fact, act in a manner that suggested that he wanted to do actual harm to the coaches. He used the provocative aesthetics that hip-hop is known for in order to offer a critique of structural and state-sanctioned violence against young women in his community. Typically, though not in all cases, the shooters have been white males. Yes, I think the law should be race-neutral. Moreover, our race-neutral conversations about freedom of expression cannot adequately account for the right of black people to express rage about systemic injustice in the public square.
For instance, in rapper J. The only difference between J.
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But the song is explicitly meant to call out the Itawamba faculty and administration for repeatedly ignoring acts of sexual harassment, particularly as the song suggests, targeted at young black girls.