pjmedia.com By Kevin Downey Jr.
As some of you know, I was a big ole New York City liberal for many years. I was really bad at it, and I got increasingly worse.
Back in 2003, a white lib friend with a bachelor’s from Brown and a need to downplay their privilege once “bravely” decried “systemic racism,” while chugging a $10 IPA and occasionally checking its $700 phone (big money in 2003). As she spoke, I silently recalled my first racially motivated ass-kicking. I was six or seven years old, growing up in Detroit.
They were older, bigger, and there were more of them. Two held my arms while one or two beat the potato salad out of me. Another bigger kid bopped my five-year-old sibling. My helplessness to save him still infuriates me. I had never even been in a fight. In all seriousness, I thought we had been thumped by members of the Jackson Five. Humiliatingly, one of them was Janet…
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