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S3 Ep5: The history of racism with Kenan Malik

The We Society

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The Social Roots of the Problems We Face

Social problems have come not to be seen in economic and social terms but more in cultural terms or identitarian terms that we talked earlier about the white working class. If we don't bring class into the question of how we tackle racism then we betray black people and minorities who are at the bottom of society, he says. We should remind ourselves about people's you are wage and are you or do you get profit dividends and rents I mean that's I agree with all that except that one of the problems with the old left as it were was its failure to understand Racism.

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