This sums up @DrIbram ‘s premise pretty well I think and what’s horrible about it is not it’s sophist attempt at reducing America to its ills but in its casual, sinister denial of the fact that BLACK CULTURE IS AS FOUNDATIONAL TO OUR SOCIETY AND IS AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE. https://twitter.com/simplerusername/status/1308233716120969217

We’ve gone from Langston Hughes’ roaring insistence that “I too am America” to what Albert Murray once described as “social science jive artists” proclaiming as @DrIbram does in his confused manuscript that “the white body defines the American body.”

Bullshit.

And I say that with love.

Kendi’s book is not just bad because of its reductiveness; it’s bad because it denies and erases the central role black Americans have played in creating this country.

I will not stand for it.

Looking for the cure? https://twitter.com/enchanttheory/status/1308538533552902145?s=20