this is ridiculous, if you expect Black people to bear all of the responsibility of explaining racism to white people, you are part of the problem. Having people of multiple races interested in learning about African and African American studies is a good thing. He is absolutely not the only professor in that department at Harvard, and you are being ignorant to allude to that
Thanks for the comment. I have no problem with white people being interested in or writing about black history. What I object to is white elites 'explaining' black history to both black and white people using the distorting lens of Theory.
As for a white man being made professor of black history at Harvard, it speaks to a lack of humility. A man who understood the history of racism as well as this professor claims to would not have accepted that title, regardless of how many black professors of black history were already tenured in the department.
this is ridiculous, if you expect Black people to bear all of the responsibility of explaining racism to white people, you are part of the problem. Having people of multiple races interested in learning about African and African American studies is a good thing. He is absolutely not the only professor in that department at Harvard, and you are being ignorant to allude to that
Thanks for the comment. I have no problem with white people being interested in or writing about black history. What I object to is white elites 'explaining' black history to both black and white people using the distorting lens of Theory.
As for a white man being made professor of black history at Harvard, it speaks to a lack of humility. A man who understood the history of racism as well as this professor claims to would not have accepted that title, regardless of how many black professors of black history were already tenured in the department.