“No, I don’t care. You nailed it.”

Got it. That’s what I was guessing … though I always hold out hope that I’m dealing with an intellectually honest person who happens to disagree with me rather than an entrenched anti-intellectual bigot. You see, the difference between you and me is that when you showed me data and pointed out an inaccuracy in what I wrote, I looked again, agreed with you, took full responsibility for that, and made my statement more accurate. When, in doing that, I also showed you the data that demonstrated that the larger point I was making nonetheless held up, you said you “don’t care” and ignored it and went on making silly accusations of racism.

Especially when the guy who writes an essay called “Teaching a Child to Be “Black” — On the Raising of a New Generation of Racists” accuses others of race baiting.

If you’re accusing me of race-baiting based on that essay, you obviously didn’t read past the title. It’s actually the exact opposite of race-baiting. The essay is a lament about how racialized, radicalized parents are racializing and radicalizing their kids, stuffing them forcibly into narrow racial identities (even when they’re mixed, as in the incident I discuss), not giving those kids a chance to be merely human.

I know that White folks inevitably becoming a minority in this country makes you nervous. We promise to be kind.

I think you didn’t get the message of my other essay that we were discussing, which is that I don’t identify as “white,” nor do I believe that such identifications should be acceptable, much less scientifically defensible, as categories. You can’t seem to get beyond your black-white binaries, and your primitive Manichean view of the universe. Oh well.