Letters: ‘What Hope Does an Ordinary Black Man Have?’
Readers respond to Jemele Hill’s argument that black men who see themselves in Brett Kavanaugh are missing the point.
Oct 19, 2018
2 minutes
What the Black Men Who Identify With Brett Kavanaugh Are Missing
Many black men, Jemele Hill observed last week, see themselves in the embattled Supreme Court justice. But, she argued, when they do so, they’re not seeing the bigger picture. These men have “every right to be frustrated,” she wrote, “but that’s not because they’ve so often been treated like Kavanaugh—it’s because they
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