A New York Times op-ed on white privilege and racism in America is generating serious, divisive debate online.
Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson wrote the piece, entitled “Death in Black and White” (originally published Thursday as “What White America Fails to See”), in response to the shootings of black men Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and then five white police officers in Dallas, Texas.
Dyson argues that whiteness allows people to view the black community through “binoculars that see black life from a distance, never with the texture of intimacy.” He goes on to say, “Whiteness is blindness.