WOAH. WHAT? WAIT A MINUTE. HUH? Those were my exact thoughts while reading The Racism Treadmill published by Coleman Hughes in Quillette. I had no idea of who this guy was, and I had to look him up. As it turns out…he’s black!? The reason why this was so shocking was because it sounded to me like he was turning his back against his own brothers and sisters by being blind to the racism that STILL exists in this country.

There will always be 2 sides of the spectrum, the far left, and the far right. Most, like myself lay smack in the middle. This guy, Hughes, seems to be headed towards the right. He argues that the left or, “progressives” believe that the progress on racism is debatable while people on the right would agree that we’ve come a long way from lynching people to only arresting them. UM WHAT? I was triggered, shook, and confused! I had to re-read this article a couple of times.

He tries to support his claim with basic psychology and blames progressive’s thoughts with “the two bugs of human psychology availability bias and negativity bias” both of which are portrayed through the media that we intake. GET OUT OF HERE. What about the injustices that people have personally encountered? The day to day racism that each individual has experienced? I’ve seen it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears! I am sure he has too! I was shaking my head throughout the entire article. I mean, I just cannot imagine this coming from a black man. No, no, no.