Is There a Races Culture at Google?

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When we look at a group differences, say, between blacks and whites on income, average annual income, home ownership rates, marriage rates, percentage of google programmes rate, the default position now is to go straight to whell it's because there's a races culture. In computer science, america has an a bysimal shortage of ph candidates in computer programming and computer computer science, really, black or white. We have to be importing mostly people from from asia, from india and china, to fulfil those programms. For a host of factors, minorities just don't go into certain areas. Or for a host of cultural reasons, it's not because of systemic racism

In this conversation with Jason Hill based on his book What do White Americans Owe Black People? Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression, Shermer probes the philosopher on the arguments for and against reparations.

In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.

Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending “whiteness.” Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today’s society.

Ultimately, the answer to “what do White Americans owe?” is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.