By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


The Trump 10/90 Rule, as applied to Black history


And, yet again, here’s another example of the Trump 10/90 Rule at work, i.e. when Trump may hold a view that has a 10 percent kernel of truth to it, but then he goes 90 percent overboard in reaction to it. The NYT’s John McWhorter explains why, for example, Trump may have legitimate complaints about doctrinaire aspects of DEI and woke-ism – but then he gets it completely wrong when he goes after the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History (see image above). … Btw: McWhorter heaps high praise on how the museum handles Black history, saying its “teachings are never strident or rhetorical.”

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