Glenn C. Loury is a professor of economics at Brown University and writes for the City Journal. He’s also black.
Here’s the last paragraph of his honest essay.
“I take no pleasure in doing so but feel obliged to report this reality: equality of dignity, equality of standing, of honor, of security in one’s position within society, an equal ability to command the respect of others—such things cannot simply be handed over. Nor will they be the fruit of insurrection, violent uprising, or rebellion. Equality of this sort is something we must wrest with our bare hands from a cruel and indifferent world by means of our own effort, inspired by the example of our enslaved and newly freed ancestors. We must make ourselves equal. No one can do that for us. My fear is that, until we recognize and accept this unlovely but inexorable fact about the human condition—until we disdain the rhetoric and embrace the realities about race in our country—the disparities that have so troubled our politics and so threatened our domestic tranquility will continue to persist.”
I think if you read his post you’ll be hard pressed to disagree with any of it. Unfortunately the Left is invested in denying this reality and feed the false narrative of “white supremacists” around every corner.
The comments on that article are pretty good reading, as well.
You’re right Jason. What makes those comments interesting is the divergence of opinion. It’s not an echo chamber. They even disagree strongly. But they get to say what they think. Then look at any of the major media sites. They’ve had to remove the comments sections from their articles because they can’t allow people who disagree with them from having their opinions expressed for fear that people would see that they make sense.