it feels like the writer is wrestling with the dissonance of raising a Black daughter and his experiences w/ secondhand antiblack racism... while also clinging to his old ideas abt the kind of ppl who take issue w/ antiblack racism.
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Bc he’s white and hasn’t needed those things doesn’t mean she won’t.
...Or is it more that they have thought so little abt how race works that they say naive things like “love is what matters/Love should be enough”?
... Or is it like, “you being the parent of a black kid doesn’t suddenly inoculate you from your OWN antiblackness or make you an expert on race”?
well...
That’s not an attack on your love for your child. That’s asking you to be real abt some shit.