Well, you may have gone through a startling change since then, if I did say that.

you told me that last week.

Who said anything about you being an ignorant black woman? That's a leap of logic, for starters.

I'm speaking about our entire relationship over the years and your behavior on filmboards. Where's the leap in my logic, Bentley?

There are so many leaps of logic there it would be like running a steeplechase just to decipher your meaning. Go to sleep.

You're the type of racist whose unaware of his racism. You assumed that I'm the type of black woman that doesn't like reading and that I prefer being ignorant. You're incorrect. I read casually not to become smarter, I do it because I prefer reading than carrying on a discussion with stupid people.
I can no longer find the book's title and author on Bing or Google because its no longer available anywhere. So many books I've read about slavery and the psychology about how the black community shuns intellectual black people because mainstream Black America associates intellectualism with homosexuality. It's basic homophobia 101.
Furthermore, to be an intellectual is not the same as being an educated person. I don't think the majority of Americans realise this.

???? Are you bonkers?

Forget it. Okay? Forget that I tried having a civil discussion with you.

Good for you! There's almost nothing as good as regular reading-habits if you want any kind of intellectual grasp of the world.

Bentley I read Black Anti-Intellectualism a decade ago. I wish I could find the author's name. I should be reading more but lately I feel unmotivated in the environment I'm currently in. I was able to relax enough to listen to yesterday's Wall Street Journal podcast.

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Pretty much.

Yes, I thought it was a fairly smart sketch. Not particularly funny, but so what? As I was saying to Chicka, it's satirical rather than (laugh-out-loud) funny.

It IS ambiguous. But some of Chappelle's best work makes you uncomfortable ('what am I laughing at?')

MMc, in his dull and unthinking way, saw it as an attack on white liberals. The laugh track misled him. And yes, excellent reading of the skit.

It's more clever than maybe it appears at first blush, though it is a bit ambiguous. I rarely watch SNL but I watched it that evening.
It's clearly making fun of white US liberals thinking that Trump was the absolute worst thing that could ever happpen, taken from the perspective of people who had over generations suffered slavery, Jim Crow and ever-present racism.
The funny thing is MMC2 posting it. Because one of the points is that Trump definitely sucks, but there's been even ****tier things in American history.

I think so. It's on GD, posted by MMC2, and commented on by Chicka and Gameboy, among others. Love to hear your take on it.

Lol! Is that about the Dave Chappelle post-2016 election skit?

My copy should arrive in a week. I've read the Hofstadter before but I like to have my own copy.

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It truly is an enlightening experience.

There's a subtle difference between saying most Americans are racist and saying America is a racist society. About the first, I don't know, but I'm willing to believe a majority of Americans are personally not racist (in the sense that they despise people of colour, or think they are inferior). But it can still be a racist society structurally and systemically, in the sense that if you're black, no matter what you do, you'll be at a disadvantage compared to whites. In this latter sense, America
is
racist.

Saying America is racist makes it sound like most people in the country are racist. If that were true, then a lot of those racist people would've voted "against" Obama in those two elections. But Obama won the popular vote in both elections.
There probably are a lot of racists in the country, but I don't believe most Americans are racist.

Of the relatively small percentage of voters who made it to the polling booths, a majority (presumably) voted for Obama. I personally think it's very creditable that many Americans voted for him, and it must mean that a lot of white Americans are not racist, but the nation as a whole doesn't send out the message that whites are not racist. Look at the history of white cops shooting unarmed black men, for instance. In a genuinely non-racist society the numbers would be far fewer, and the penalties for the cops would be much stiffer. Or look at this board, and the immense support for the actions of white cops you see here. I assume a board like this is a sort of microcosm of white America.