I Cannot Believe I Just Saw A Discussion Here Regarding The Downtrodden White Male...

[HiPointDem]

79. I didn't say that race and gender privilege was "woo-woo," and I'm not sure how you took

that from what I wrote.

I'm fully aware of the disproportionate jailing of black men on low level charges, and the political reasons for it, and the omnipresent scapegoating of black men, and the decreasing percent of black men attending college and all the rest of it. I am the rare person who considers a large proportion of black prisoners to be political prisoners.

I posted the chart because the poster stated that men always had it better than women. The data on black male unemployment and college degrees v. black women was offered as evidence against such facile generalizations.

I personally believe that black men are the most scapegoated and targeted group in the US. I also believe that much of the national conversation on race (and gender) in America is organized around constructs that have ruling class origins. Like a lot of the "critical theory" coming out of elite universities. And I think some of them have pernicious aspects.