Being Black Means We Have to be 200% Better
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
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White male here. Richard Dawkins, I found a hit piece on him: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-sosa/im-finally-breaking-up-with-richard-dawkins_b_9102116.html , he was also lit up on South Park if you’ve seen the episode. All pretty funny stuff, and you’re right, no white scientist gives a shit what people say about Richard because in no way does he speak or act for the whole race.

Many of my peers don’t get it, I don’t claim to fully get it, but it’s blatantly obvious that racism is still affecting minorities in a large way, and even after that blatantly obvious racism fades away there will still be the myriad of negative effects passed down to generations to come.

I think and hope things are getting better, progress is slow but as minorities get more vocal, angrier, prove they’re successful and have every right to be in top positions, we hopefully will see things speed up.

That progress will probably hurt me and my family, steal away our inherent advantage, but that’s what I want because I’d rather earn my place knowing that the people I beat started on even-footing.