You're speaking gobbledeygook. None of that was in the article. Are you sure you're in the right thread?
Again, I don't think you actually read the article. He's a white guy, he's mostly talking about understanding the parts of history of these United States that we may be shocked to discover have been hidden or otherwise omitted from our education.
Perhaps my having been exposed to Tim and the 'anti-racist' movement for at least a decade gives me unfair advantage -- and yes, I did read the article, finding in it to be nothing different from past writings.
The idea that today's America has had this portion of the past hidden from it is ludicrous. We have been awash in information on slavery, separate-but-equal, lynchings, and other bad stuff for years. White Americans do not have the emotional reaction to this history that Black Americans do? Black Americans are angry? Does that surprise you? Did you somehow miss it?:-)
Other than that, see my above post of today at 2:50pm.
Yours,
Issodhos
P.s. Not really gobblygook if you are familiar with and have participated in race discussions (real ones where not almost everyone is 'white'). p + p = r is the self-serving definition of racism used by those who seek to protect themselves from charges of racism while actually engaging in it. Prejudice + Power = Racism. Power in this equation is limited to America in general, meaning power is held by 'white' people. That power is based on Whiteness as a social construct. What this means is that only 'whites' can be racist. No non-white can be racist. And all 'whites' are racist by dint of being 'white' (though one can opt out under certain conditions). The most a non-white can be is prejudiced. Handy, huh?:-)
