“Blacks Have To Want Success”

Steven Barnes
5 min readOct 27, 2020

Ah, the wisdom of Jared Kushner. Yeah, he said that as his statement on the problems with and in Black America

Arrrgh.

Let’s try to apply the Three Gates to this. “Truth” and “Usefulness” are front and center. But I think most of you will agree that, in the framework I construct, his comments were not just dishonest and unuseful, but poisonously unkind.

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Here’s what he’s doing: taking a racist position without taking responsibility for doing so.

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.