It’s also at this point where I’m taking the blogging - TopicsExpress



          

It’s also at this point where I’m taking the blogging privilege of respectfully disagreeing with some of the more nuanced points that Brittney Cooper made in her Salon article “Black girls’ zero-sum struggle: Why we lose when black boys dominate the discourse.“ I am grieved by some of the tone that Cooper takes in her response to My Brother’s Keeper. While I myself am ambivalent about the initiative, we’re clearly ambivalent for vastly different reasons. I think she misses some of the political significance of Obama actually saying and attempting to do something about trying to shift societal norms around how blackness is perceived. Unfortunately the deaths of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis occurred giving him the platform to make this clarion call. What is fundamentally wrong with acknowledging and doing work that supports and uplifts black men?
Posted on: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:17:45 +0000

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