Shawn Rochester: The Black Tax

 This is Shawn Rochester lecturing on his book,"The Black Tax." It's very interesting. The book is "better" having more material than a Google Talk can handle. He puts $ signs on STATISTICS.

Over my lifetime of figuring out how to navigate white America, I've had several YTs demands of me I suggest books for them to read on black folk and our ...sitchiation, as if I have access to a secret library or Internet they cant access. Since I have a few books in my head like, MLK, Jr.s book "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community," I give them a few. They don't see their privilege that precedes the demand. Last year I reminded a guy (as I've done with all who've demanded) and said , "I'll cashapp you $50 (This is the first time I've added money to the mix) if you've read half of any one of the books." He hadn't touched any. In ALL cases, folks who had cosplayed to be concerned about black folk business had failed their own homework assignment. Was the cosplay for them or me? I argue it was for both of us. One interesting fact in the lecture is the high percentage of non ADOS/FBA's that hold prejudice and implicit bias toward ADOS.FBA's. In many cases there is no huge chasm between many of these folks and MAGA, but a thread