{"id":53132,"date":"2017-03-31T00:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53132"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:24:43","slug":"trevor-noah-whats-the-middle-between-white-supremacy-and-equality-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53132","title":{"rendered":"Trevor Noah: What\u2019s the \u201cMiddle\u201d Between White Supremacy and Equality for\u00a0All?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trevor Noah: What\u2019s the \u201cMiddle\u201d Between White Supremacy and Equality for\u00a0All?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Son of Baldwin\u00a0<\/a>
\n2016-12-07<\/p>\n

Son of Baldwin<\/strong><\/a> (Robert Jones, Jr)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Trevor Noah<\/a> dressed in a suit, seen from the chest up, smiling.]<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I respect Trevor Noah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I respect the position he finds himself in and his attempts at trying to find common ground<\/a>. It\u2019s hard when your loyalties are split and so you have a particular, if peculiar, idea of where the \u201cmiddle\u201d is.<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ll need Noah to explain to me is this: What is the middle between white supremacy and equality for all? And does whatever that middle is benefit white supremacy or equality?<\/p>\n

One of the things I dislike about Noah\u2019s perspective is how it misrepresents false equivalence as balance.<\/p>\n

I know that when it comes to racial matters, some people feel that they can \u201csee it from both sides\u201d and, therefore, \u201cknow the answer is in the middle.\u201d If black people in the United States<\/a> were in power equal to that of white people; if the laws and institutions and education and media dipped in favor of black people as much as it does white people, then there might be an actually middle to arrive at.<\/p>\n

But you cannot start from a place where the scales are tipped in favor of one group and treat it as though the scale is level. Your answer will always be incorrect when your starting equation has one of the variables wrong…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I respect Trevor Noah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,23674,20],"tags":[26481,26483,15219],"class_list":["post-53132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-robert-jones-jr","tag-son-of-baldwin","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53133,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53132\/revisions\/53133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}