Arguing with Candace Owens
~ Hénock Gugsa ~
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Was Ahmaud Arbery “just a jogger”
I can understand her taking up the role of a devil's advocate on this highly charged and controversial matter. And she does make very good, solid arguments which she then turns around and contradicts point by point. For example she says that the victim should not have been there in the first place and that he had a [shady] background. Then later, she says he had mental issues.
One crucial and important question she never asks: Would Arbury have been killed had he been white?! Instead she dwells on what he was wearing when he was confronted by two armed white men. She dismisses the whole thing as "obviously something that went wrong."
She denounces Lebron James for being tribal despite his wealth and privilege. I believe Lebron is aware that were he not wealthy he would and could easily be another "victim" if he were out jogging in a white neighborhood. She questions Lebron's motivations and actions, but what about her own?
Obviously, she herself is a fortunate, privileged, black person with no doubt more white friends than blacks. She probably has never undergone a serious personal confrontation with anybody that smacked of racial conflict.
But she is not nearly as neutral and objective as she believes she is. She does have clear and unmistakable biases and she is not totally fair and balanced. If she were, she would try to bring up (at least mention) other cases of outright racism that never got justice ! Yet here she is displaying her youthful folly of challenging three-hundred years of history, and denouncing serious matters with shallow and callous treatment. What is her background? Has she read black history? Has she read black literature? I wish she had met Malcolm X. He would have put her in her place!
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© Hénock Gugsa
One crucial and important question she never asks: Would Arbury have been killed had he been white?! Instead she dwells on what he was wearing when he was confronted by two armed white men. She dismisses the whole thing as "obviously something that went wrong."
She denounces Lebron James for being tribal despite his wealth and privilege. I believe Lebron is aware that were he not wealthy he would and could easily be another "victim" if he were out jogging in a white neighborhood. She questions Lebron's motivations and actions, but what about her own?
Obviously, she herself is a fortunate, privileged, black person with no doubt more white friends than blacks. She probably has never undergone a serious personal confrontation with anybody that smacked of racial conflict.
But she is not nearly as neutral and objective as she believes she is. She does have clear and unmistakable biases and she is not totally fair and balanced. If she were, she would try to bring up (at least mention) other cases of outright racism that never got justice ! Yet here she is displaying her youthful folly of challenging three-hundred years of history, and denouncing serious matters with shallow and callous treatment. What is her background? Has she read black history? Has she read black literature? I wish she had met Malcolm X. He would have put her in her place!
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© Hénock Gugsa
