Power Line
John Hinderaker
June 6, 2018
That is the title of this essay by Columbia undergraduate Coleman Hughes. The piece is quite brilliant. More than that, Hughes must be one of America’s bravest young men.
Hughes’s subject is the double standard that is so often applied in favor of African-Americans. He begins with an anecdote about being selected to back the singer Rihanna on the MTV Video Music Awards. Several of his friends were chosen as well, but one of them, a “white Hispanic,†was then discharged because the “artistic team had decided to go for an all-black aesthetic.â€
One thing, however, is clear. If the races were reversed—if a black musician had been fired in order to achieve an all-white aesthetic—it would have made front page headlines. It would have been seen as an unambiguous moral infraction.More...
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/06/the-high-price-of-stale-grievances.phpThe essay itself isn't much longer and it's good.