Re:Encountering Thomas Sowell
by runako on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:41AM
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> A dig at fathers in the first paragraph
The writers are African-American women. Working has been a feature of most African-American women's lives for the entirety of America. It's not a dig at the fathers, who have historically also been working. The traditional African-American family has typically had two workers. (The "double-shift" is working for someone else, then coming home and doing homemaking. Commonly, the father would be working a second job during the evening hours.)
I think reading this as an attack on the traditional American family is making a lot of assumptions about which families are considered "traditional."
The writers are African-American women. Working has been a feature of most African-American women's lives for the entirety of America. It's not a dig at the fathers, who have historically also been working. The traditional African-American family has typically had two workers. (The "double-shift" is working for someone else, then coming home and doing homemaking. Commonly, the father would be working a second job during the evening hours.)
I think reading this as an attack on the traditional American family is making a lot of assumptions about which families are considered "traditional."