Blog Against Racism Day was yesterday
It was also AIDS Awareness Day. It was also, incidentally, December 1st. I thought it was still November.
Anyway, a day late but I had a couple thoughts on the subject. First, one of the most interesting things I read this year was an article in the NYT. It’s about a brilliant up-and-coming young econ professor at Harvard named Roland J. Fryer, who uses economics to study race.
Because he is black, he can say and do things that middleclass white people don’t, and he is energetically tearing apart not just the statistics, but the behaviours that he believe constitute the achievement gap between blacks and whites. It’s a good article, and the first sign of hope I’ve seen on the racism front in awhile.
If you do better with pictures, at least check The Boondocks.
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