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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
I am the OP.  You didn't even look at the article, did you, and are spouting random facts.  The title of the article is "Library Visit, Then Held at Gunpoint.
Charles Blow: At Yale, the Police Detained My Son"  I titled the thread.[/quote]

Good point. I didn't look at the title of the article, only read through it. I just assumed you had copied the article title. I appreciate the correction. But mistaken title aside, the body of his article aligns with the points I made. The author makes a big deal about the treatment of his son due to the way he looks, drawing a reference to his race. Look at the tone of the article, it's not just an upset parent questioning why his son was treated in such a way, but a black man asking why his black son was treated in such a way and suggesting that its because he was black. This is not the only time the Blow made these types of racially divisive remarks publicly. He seizing on this opportunity as yet another chance to shout from the podium.

[quote=Anonymous]
And Charles Blow worked himself up from being a middle child in a big single-parent family in rural Louisiana to a top journalist at the NYT.  His son is at Yale.  I'm somehow not seeing the excuse for failure/victim mentality you claim he must have.
[/quote]Well he certainly makes no effort to hide this victim mentality. In this very article he says:

"I am reminded of what I have always known, but what some would choose to deny: that there is no way to work your way out — earn your way out — of this sort of crisis. In these moments, what you’ve done matters less than how you look."

He is saying there is no use trying, no use making an effort, because it doesn't matter. The way you look - black or white is far more important. If you are black, you are and will be the victim, there is no way to change that. Such a depressing thought. [/quote]

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