Many years ago, as a high school sophomore, I took an elective called International Relations, taught by the social studies department chairman, a man who had a Ph.D. in political theory. I remember his hero was Hans J. Morgenthau. I did well in the class, despite the fact that I was competing mostly with seniors.
The next year I was in honors US History. The teacher of that class was good friends with the chairman of the department. The chairman told my teacher: Give Paul (my name) a C on his interim report card -- that will inspire him to work harder.
The fact is, I thought I was doing very well in that class. When I saw that C on my interim report card I was totally demotivated. When the teacher explained to me how the C was just ploy I came to an important realization: I would work much harder to maintain an A than I would to try to improve a C.
That is what I feel about the current environment. If you are white you are led to believe that you are a racist no matter what you do. Psychologically it is a bust. Black America, here is what you should do: Tell us that we've come a long way, we've given it a good faith effort -- but there are still some areas where things could be better.
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 18.2 ms ] threadThe next year I was in honors US History. The teacher of that class was good friends with the chairman of the department. The chairman told my teacher: Give Paul (my name) a C on his interim report card -- that will inspire him to work harder.
The fact is, I thought I was doing very well in that class. When I saw that C on my interim report card I was totally demotivated. When the teacher explained to me how the C was just ploy I came to an important realization: I would work much harder to maintain an A than I would to try to improve a C.
That is what I feel about the current environment. If you are white you are led to believe that you are a racist no matter what you do. Psychologically it is a bust. Black America, here is what you should do: Tell us that we've come a long way, we've given it a good faith effort -- but there are still some areas where things could be better.
As examples matching your Margaret Sanger example, there are plenty of requests to tear down MLK, Malcom X, and Mandela statues .
For a right-wing example concerning the Troubles in Ireland, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_Russell#Attacks_on_m... .