By Selwyn Duke
It’s easy being idealistic when you don’t have to live with your ideals, when you can just outsource “your” sacrifice to the less powerful. There was, for example, the well-heeled Brooklyn parent who, reacting to an integration plan targeting his kids’ school, said in 2015, “It’s more complicated when it’s about your own children.” It’s also, apparently, more complicated when it’s about your own privilege.
This is the conclusion one writer drew when assessing Davidson College in North Carolina, a liberal arts institution that has a new mission: teaching white churches to be “less racist.” Here’s how Davidson describes its scheme, which is funded by a big-business-born foundation....
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