Yesterday, I was on a Federalist Society Webinar and gave a caustic review to Alvin Bragg’s politically inspired, Rube Goldberg prosecution of Donald Trump. It’s not that I think Trump is without blame in some of his behavior, certainly as respects, for example, the Florida-based indictment against him for misappropriation of classified documents when he left the White House and evasion of a subpoena. It’s that Bragg’s case is less a creature of law than a sneering hatchet job. Let’s just tell the truth: It was never really about paying hush money to a porn star or disguising those payments in Trump’s internal corporate records. It was about targeting a particularly despised Privileged White Male — a man who, even more than most such creatures, exploited his undeserved, racist advantages in life to keep his boot on the neck of the oppressed. His role in January 6 was just a spinoff we should have expected all along.
This got me to thinking that I’ve been giving inadequate coverage to White Male Privilege — a view that prevails in academia, the press, and large swaths of the Democratic Party. Let me start to remedy my deficient coverage, beginning with a few pieces I found in the press. (They’re not hard to find). Here’s one, titled, “Ijeoma Oluo on why it's time for white male mediocrity to lose its power. ‘We aren't just talking about a few bad dudes," Oluo said. "We are talking about deliberately constructed identities and systems of power.’ "
When the author Ijeoma Oluo’s first book “So You Want to Talk About Race” was published in 2018, the world did not know the names of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor or Ahmaud Arbery, nor the fates that would befall them.
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