Veiled racial attack, and they pointed to the hypocrisy of ryan s insistence on cultural persistence for policy. and as is frequently the case, coates on march 18th made a contribution to this discussion that was especially insightful. he pointed to the similarities between congressman ryan s culture statement and president obama s repeated inknvocations cousin pooky when talking to a black audience. coates was interested less in lambasting this president, than reminding us about the slippery assumptions that are ubiquitous. white conservatives do this pathologyizing, of course, just look at congressman ryan. white liberals do it, see president clinton s determination to end welfare as we knew it. black conservatives do it. just look at the new black conservative magazine, american
Part of what coates asked is, well, why are people mad if paul ryan when, after all, president obama says it? the fact is, we know why they re mad when paul ryan says it and not president obama. because there s an assumption about president obama s connection to, belief in, and love for the black community or black communities in a way that there s not for ryan. so how do you navigate that in a way that s careful and intellectually honest as a white writer? i put my own hypocrisy on the front page of my book. i said, i don t know any black people, so i m going to find out why. i didn t write a book about race or black people, i wrote about myself. i wrote about school bussing in my high school. i wanted to understand where i came from. i wasn t writing about black people. i was writing about how race shaped my world. because that s what i was curious about. was, you know, i wasn t doing the sort of white man s burden. i m going to go out and learn about this, and, you know, tell the moral of the story. and so, i think, you know, white people don t see themselves as
Sexism, in terms of sexual stereotyping. so it leaves them out as people potentially in need of resources. leaves them out as people with complex lives. and then adds them through this kind of hypervisibility as a threat, as a threat to black men and boys as well. and brittany, no clearer contemporary example of that, then, on the one hand, an initiative who could hate, right, my brother s keeper, but then you also have to, it begs the question, what about our daughters? exactly right. the sort of logic of my brother s keeper says that patriot a patriarchy is going to solve the problem of race inequality. so what i didn t see ta-nehisi or jonathan chait mention, is paul ryan talked about men standing on the corner, right? so there was a very gendered frame to that analysis as well. part of the thing is to think about, what are the structural policies the that ryan has supported that put those men on the corner, right? but also, women are not on the corner, because they are out
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