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Thank you @unherd & @Perez_Writes for braving a more nuanced conversation about race in America, with the Proud Boys’ rather dark-skinned Cuban-American leader from the Hispanic-dominated city of Miami, as your case in point: https://unherd.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a3053b52a708e8ba60bf45e9&id=97cba5128c&e=070de6dfe4
“The idea that anyone in Miami is thinking about white supremacy is preposterous; to someone like Tarrio, the “spectre of whiteness” — or any other concept used by the Left to explain American race relations — is completely foreign.”
“Steeped in this culture, a figure like Tarrio, despite all his petty idiocy, has a more acute understanding of American racial dynamics than any African-American Studies major from an elite institution.”
“The race-obsessed commentariat — the same people who’ve pushed the word “Latinx” on Hispanics in the hope of inducing an inorganic solidarity — would be mystified by the Hispanic view of blackness, if they ever bothered to listen to it.”
“To white liberals, if a person looks black, they must automatically identify as black, which isn’t necessarily the case.”
