Jussie Smollett, Bill de Blasio, Stuyvesant High School—Tales of Black Privilege?
30th March 2019
John Derbyshire describes the elephant in the room.
The phrase “black privilege” is being thrown around in connection with this story. That’s not altogether inappropriate. That Smollett’s blackness—black-ish-ness, whatever—was an important factor in the charges being dropped, can’t be denied.