His first life narrative having failed at its task, I guess.
Yes, I am still annoyed at this bit
Fryer well appreciates that he can raise questions that most white scholars wouldn't dare. His collaborators, most of whom are white, appreciate this, too. ''Absolutely, there's an insulation effect,'' says the Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser. ''There's no question that working with Roland is somewhat liberating.''
So. Do we allow for the possibility of evolution?
Oh! Oh! Why you got to get all personal, P6?
EYE am not he who made it personal. You raise these folks up in the media and I feel compelled to point out that service to the Black communities has never been the reason it was done.
On a related note, ain't we supposed to be trying to dump charismatic leadership? We all got those marching orders...coincidentally, at the same time that charismatically led groups like the Republican Party and the Americhristian Dominionists gained ascendancy.
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I read the whole NYT
I read the whole NYT Magazine article. There's so much bs in there I can hardly begin.
In any case. First on his father:
(1) If his father was such an a-hole, why would the father take the son away from the mother and burden himself with a toddler?
(2) Why is he talking bad about his father or his mother to some strange white boy in the first place?
(3) Why does he so readily believe his "I couldn't find you boy" mom's spiel? The guy was born somewhere around 1980, by the time he moved away wth his pops it was almost impossible not to find anyone who did not change their name and went into hiding.
The boy sounds like a hustler to me. Reminds me of Gene Rivers. Plus Salt and slavery? WTF ever happebd to white supremacy? That system is dead and gone? Come on now.
Roland's going to be an
Roland's going to be an interesting case to watch. The new narrative moderates the first. I wonder if that means the up-from-the-ghetto narrative is falling out of favor.