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11 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Looks like he's now moving into some legitimately false teaching.

I'd suggest this article, "What Does Jew & Gentile Have to do with White & Black?," is much more accurate, Biblical approach then the old canard repeated by Shenvi: alsoacarpenter.com/2018/09/27/wha…
2/ The problem: "If we attempt to interpret and understand these events without the socio-historical context, we start from illicit neutral ground which inevitably obscures part of the very import of their presence in the Biblical canon."

alsoacarpenter.com/2018/09/27/wha…
3/ And if you're unsure that this is an old canard, see here as well:

alsoacarpenter.com/2019/02/25/gal…
4/4 And for more on Jewish privilege in the historic context, see:

alsoacarpenter.com/2018/05/22/wha…
(This also really should be included: alsoacarpenter.com/2018/12/19/chr…)

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Because this book is so good, and this chapter is a must read, here is part 3 from chapter 2 in Darity's book (see QT below for part 2):

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Chapter 2.2:

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He comes to the EXACT OPPOSITE of the rational conclusion!

If the SAME disparate circumstances of marginalized peoples that existed under Jim Crow persist, now by means of facially "race-neutral" standards, then the burden of proof is on those who would justify these standards!
2/ I literally just wrote about this today:

3/ And, contrary to Owen, you don't have to become an expert to see this. Start by reading some who are! Again, for example:
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Folks ask me all the time, “But couldn’t it be past racism that is responsible for current disparities rather than systemic racism?” This, I’d argue, shows that the meaning of “systemic racism” is being missed altogether.

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3/ contingent, socially constructed, racialized people-groups. (I think Vernellia R. Randal’s is pretty good as well, viz., “polices, practices, and procedures of institutions that have a disproportionately negative effect on racial minorities’ access to and quality of goods,
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