Derek Hunter
What I Like About Being White
Posted: May 30, 2021 12:01 AM
There’s a quote I love, use regularly, and butcher just as often, “My favorite definition of an intellectual: ‘Someone who has been educated beyond their intelligence.” It comes from Arthur C. Clarke, but I first heard it from my friend Al, a just-post-Korean War vet and electrician I used to play in euchre tournaments back in Detroit. I have never met anyone with an advanced degree, outside of a couple of people in the fields of law and medicine, who didn’t personify that quote to a T. One prime example of this phenomenon is Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill.
Hill also hosts a show on BET and something called “Black News Channel,” which describes itself as “an independent network, minority-owned and operated. BNC is the nation’s only provider of 24/7 cable news programming created ‘by people of color for people of color.’” If you remember Hill from his cable news days, that he’d work for race-based networks wouldn’t surprise you. After all, he is a true man of the left, an adherent to the left’s identity politics. He was fired from his job at CNN not for his racism, but for anti-Semitism, back when anti-Semitism could get you condemned by the left.
On his BNC show this week, Hill interviewed the Manhattan Institute’s Christopher Rufo about Critical Race Theory. In what Hill must’ve thought was a “gotcha” question, he asked Rufo, “What do you like about being white?”
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