re: Black intellectuals you should be following (update in latest post)

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I understand why you didn’t do it, but a few words about how you interpret their political leaning would be helpful

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I don't know if I even know their party leanings, but their views on race amount to extraordinary contrarianism with regard to current orthodoxy.

e.g. In that 5th Column podcast, Loury asserted that in the Arbery case that we should also consider the impact of black biases. So, he states that a black guy facing a "citizens' arrest" from the baws might have an entirely different reaction to a citizens' arrest in the hood. We can't just consider one-way racial biases.

Hughes makes the observation that everyone is constantly chided to be completely and utterly dismissive of a middle class white person being scared of Islamic terrorism or a raping Mexican illegal because of statistics, but that black people are encouraged to take outlying events (like Arbery) and fully extrapolate them to "you should definitely tell your children to be terrified of jogging while black" despite paltry evidence in support of such fears.