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Self-Portrait in Black and White Unlearning Race

Thomas Chatterton Williams

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves,

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The Ben Shapiro Show

The speaker referenced this book when discussing the idea that the wife of an academic was pushing racial grievance onto their children. The academic's wife, according to her husband's thread, was trying to inherit the 'wound' described in the book, instead of joy, because she felt inauthentic for not having experienced racial trauma herself.

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My family is living the antithesis of Thomas Chatterson Williams, self-portrait in black and white.

— Episode: Ep. 1087 - The Elites vs. The People

Episode: Ep. 1087 - The Elites vs. The People

The speaker referenced this book when discussing the idea that the wife of an academic was pushing racial grievance onto their children. The academic's wife, according to her husband's thread, was trying to inherit the 'wound' described in the book, instead of joy, because she felt inauthentic for not having experienced racial trauma herself.

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My family is living the antithesis of Thomas Chatterson Williams, self-portrait in black and white.

My wife's father told me he's glad his daughter and Obama too come from the post civil rights generation because they did not acquire his black rage.

My wife wants to inherit the wound, the wound as I've heard Thomas Chatterson Williams say, when she should inherit nothing but joy, love, and a sense of her own endless potential in a world that will reward her for her beauty and brilliance, not punish her for her hatred of her blackness.

until our kids are old enough to read for themselves people like Thomas Chatterton Williams and other thoughtful writers who come from a place of love and healing of our anxious and needless racial wounds.

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