Tomiwa Owolade on What We Get Wrong About Race
The Good Fight
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The Strange Drive to Describe the Situation in Maximally Negative Terms
There's a temptation to describe the challenges facing all black people in the United States as being the same. And even within the U.S., that just doesn't seem to be a very convincing image of what's actually happening, he says. Nigerian Americans, Kenyan Americans and other groups of African immigrants are doing extremely well because they came from an elite group inside their own society. The problem with many of these progresses is that they treat race and therefore racism as this almost metaphysical category which essentially transcends context.
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