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Yesterday this young man was positioned as an “expert”- on what I do not know - and opined about the significance of racial disparities, entitlement of victims of Jim Crow to reparations rather than descendants of slaves, and racial divisions in America.
He is an undergraduate student in the Philosophy Dept at Columbia. But he has developed no expertise in matters that warrant study, rigor, scholarship and/or deep engagement. And yet he was invited to share his views w/a congressional subcommittee.
I respect the opinions, views & experience of young people. But his views are not a counterpoint to Ta-Nehisi’s genuine expertise developed by years of study and scholarship on race in America and reparations. There is no equivalence here.
And that’s why I hate these calls to “debate” every Black person who expresses conservative views. Have some expertise and record of work in the field first.
