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Anti-woke Twitter is justifiably outraged over the NY Times celebrating a girl getting unaccepted from College for saying the N-Word at 15. An important, but overlooked, part of the story was focusing on the supposed racism of Loudon County, VA as part of that "reckoning" https://t.co/A1Ko2Px07N
The Times views the fact that 15 year olds quotes rap lyrics in the context of the Town's Confederate and segregationist history.
Loudon County and Leesburg were unpopulated rural areas during Massive Resistance. their populations have grown nearly 20 fold since then. This growth is primarily from from wealthy DC suburbanites as well as Asian and Hispanic immigrants (NYT notes the school is only 50% white)
I'd bet less than 5% of the students are descended from someone who attended segregated Loudon County schools. There is no heritage of segregation in Loudon County--it has no heritage beyond recent government workers and immigrants.
"Geographic Guilt By Association" is becoming more common. If a county or town committed a real or imagined racism in the past, then they must "reckon" with it when addressing their imagined racisms of the present.
A psychopathic kid gets a video of a girl using a racial slur when she's 15, holds on to it until she has chosen a college to get her admissions revoked. The NYT celebrates this "reckoning." How many previous tyrannical regimes have gone after the children?https://t.co/cgIsjgMKp3 pic.twitter.com/UoQ48j3jhE
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) December 27, 2020
The Times views the fact that 15 year olds quotes rap lyrics in the context of the Town's Confederate and segregationist history.
Loudon County and Leesburg were unpopulated rural areas during Massive Resistance. their populations have grown nearly 20 fold since then. This growth is primarily from from wealthy DC suburbanites as well as Asian and Hispanic immigrants (NYT notes the school is only 50% white)
I'd bet less than 5% of the students are descended from someone who attended segregated Loudon County schools. There is no heritage of segregation in Loudon County--it has no heritage beyond recent government workers and immigrants.
"Geographic Guilt By Association" is becoming more common. If a county or town committed a real or imagined racism in the past, then they must "reckon" with it when addressing their imagined racisms of the present.