Pinckney states that although black people may be in the mainstream now , black history is not , the prime example being The Shooting of Trayvon Martin . Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls the recognition scene , when the young boy realizes that he is different , Trayvon Martin 's moment of instruction . There he must have realized that “ the white world sees black people as different , no matter how blacks feel inside — has a history , one that yanks everybody back a step ” . Touré takes the more sensationalistic term for Gates ´ moment of instruction the “ nigger wake-up call ” . Also , in his opinion , Touré represents “ the anti-essentialist idea of blackness , a discourse of privilege , far from the race feeling that said if it happens to one of us , it happens to all of us ” . Pinckney reminds the reader that history is not so long ago after all , even if black people want to forget . Touré seems to leave out that racism is not for all blacks the same . He writes from the perspective of a privileged black person
Shooting of Trayvon Martin
Shooting of Trayvon Martin
Post-blackness