I was hoping that it was satire, but it looks like just a overreaching complaint about everything racial, cultural and political in America. If the eclipse’s path had been different and hit more majority black cities the author would have used that as a reason to write essentially the same article. I bet she talks just like this on non-eclipse days and is a huge amount if fun at parties when she corners her victims with it.
Alice Ristroph is a professor at Brooklyn Law School. She teaches and writes in criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and political theory.
“If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail!”
If you are a Professor of ‘Political Theory’, everything relates to Social Justice Warriors.