"However, he’s deeply at odds with “antiracist” thinkers like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which has put him on the outs with current intellectual fashion in some segments of the political left." Do you mean segments of the political left who are tolerant and can read?
Reed is wrong to abandon the class, not race, argument. The dispar…
"However, he’s deeply at odds with “antiracist” thinkers like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which has put him on the outs with current intellectual fashion in some segments of the political left." Do you mean segments of the political left who are tolerant and can read?
Reed is wrong to abandon the class, not race, argument. The disparities in life outcomes are nearly all explainable by number of adults in the household engaged with raising the children. Read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's prophetic report; it is predictive. When corrected for number of parents in the child's household, outcomes are nearly identical. Regardless of race, people who were raised by single adults have near-identical outcomes in housing, employment, incarceration, health, education and all other outcomes. The same is true of those raised in multi-adult households. Race doesn't influence outcome, number of parents do. But, you can't build a multi-trillion-dollar race war profiteering industry by admitting to the truth.
And, by the way, the amount of melanin in the skin affects how much Vitamin D is created. Vitamin D plays a key role in defending against viruses. The more melanin, the less Vitamin D. For children living in high-rise housing projects, the omni-present babysitter, the television, sees plenty of the kids during the day. There are few green spaces in which to play, and playgrounds are too often the province of drug dealers. So, children of color get less sunlight (less Vitamin D), less time outside (almost impossible to infect another outdoors), and are more apt to be raised on a non-healthy diet. It's real.
"But because statistically speaking, young Black men were more likely to commit crimes than other people. And the thing was outrageous, of course, the argument was outrageous, . . . '' Unsubstantiated assertion, unless "of course" counts as substantiation.
"However, he’s deeply at odds with “antiracist” thinkers like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram Kendi, which has put him on the outs with current intellectual fashion in some segments of the political left." Do you mean segments of the political left who are tolerant and can read?
Reed is wrong to abandon the class, not race, argument. The disparities in life outcomes are nearly all explainable by number of adults in the household engaged with raising the children. Read Daniel Patrick Moynihan's prophetic report; it is predictive. When corrected for number of parents in the child's household, outcomes are nearly identical. Regardless of race, people who were raised by single adults have near-identical outcomes in housing, employment, incarceration, health, education and all other outcomes. The same is true of those raised in multi-adult households. Race doesn't influence outcome, number of parents do. But, you can't build a multi-trillion-dollar race war profiteering industry by admitting to the truth.
And, by the way, the amount of melanin in the skin affects how much Vitamin D is created. Vitamin D plays a key role in defending against viruses. The more melanin, the less Vitamin D. For children living in high-rise housing projects, the omni-present babysitter, the television, sees plenty of the kids during the day. There are few green spaces in which to play, and playgrounds are too often the province of drug dealers. So, children of color get less sunlight (less Vitamin D), less time outside (almost impossible to infect another outdoors), and are more apt to be raised on a non-healthy diet. It's real.
"But because statistically speaking, young Black men were more likely to commit crimes than other people. And the thing was outrageous, of course, the argument was outrageous, . . . '' Unsubstantiated assertion, unless "of course" counts as substantiation.