Posted on 04/06/2023 9:33:43 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Heather McGhee’s book The Sum of Us reveals her muddled thinking and hypocrisy on race and ethnicity.
Wanting to study modern leftist thought, I decided to read Heather McGhee’s bestseller The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. After all, it was festooned with blurbs by the likes of The New York Times, Oprah Daily, George Saunders, Ibram X. Kendi, Robert B. Reich, and David Axelrod.
In her book, she argues that most American Whites are racists who believe in a zero-sum paradigm: if people of color gain, then Whites lose. As a consequence, Whites prevent POC from succeeding, and the top 1% benefit from racial strife while other Americans of all races and ethnicities lead stunted lives full of misery and woe. Regular Whites can demolish the paradigm and the suffering it causes by joining with POC in social solidarity and spending more government money, especially on POC. (I am not sure how calling someone a racist encourages that person to ally with the name caller, but I will let that pass.)
Has Heather McGhee spent her life staggering through this bleak American landscape that brutalizes almost everyone? Let us see.
McGhee’s parents divorced when she was young — her father started a new family while her mother, her brother, and she lived with financial challenges. She had four strikes against her (one more than in baseball): she was Black; she was female; she was raised in a single-parent household; and she was a member of the “fragile middle class” which lacked “nice things”. But was she out? Not at all.
Her parents sacrificed to pay for her attendance at an outstanding boarding school where she encountered “loving teachers.” After graduating, she earned degrees from Yale and Berkeley Law
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I agree. There is no race being discriminated against today in the job market except for white people, especially white men. Why should anyone be upset if someone else is successful because they earned it? (except for the leftist racists)
That's how SHE'D like it. But it's more like "A rising tide lifts ALL boats".
Bite me Heather
Perverted thinking by an entity incapable of generating an original thought.
He was given incredible opportunities by America to grow up and go to best colleges and law school. And then turned on that country to create such problems and fill it with such hate.
I was thinking, he's a little like a child, an orphan, who was given a chance by kind people (America) to grow in a loving family.
And then, after he grew up, he turned on that family and spat in their face after having taken advantage of all they had to offer.
No sooner had I thought that than I realized that's exactly what Colin Kaepernick has done.
Even sadder, it’s not enough for them to hate, they feel compelled to make others hate, too.
Obama’s lasting legacy of destroying race relations to keep the democrats in power. Blacks were doing to well for the democrats’ tastes. Sure we always had the charlatans like Jackson and Sharpton. But nothing divided Americans like that demon Obama. And since it has only gotten worse.
I’ll betcha it’s a hair thing with her.
If you judge people based on skin color, if you assign beliefs, experiences, and characteristics by skin color, if you advocate policies and privileges based on skin color, if you insist that certain people can’t make it based on skin color, you are a racist.
This is what the “antiracists” do. All of them.
So is "liberal compassion." They have none.
Which is racist on her part.
I argue that American liberals are racists who believe in a zero-sum paradigm.
It's depressing as hell.
And Obama injects this poison into America...and then smiles about it.
Somebody left the c off the front!
We will be soon if the regime has its way.
You mean, like COVID?
COVID can damage, even kill, the body, hatred eats the soul.
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