I'm Not Proud of Things I'ven't Done. I've Don't See Why You Would Be

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Sam harris: It seems to me that one of the great disappointments of what i describe as the re racialization of the public square is that you even have to talk about yourself in terms of skin colour. The appropriate goal here, with respect to political and moral progress, is to arrive in so happy future where race simply does not matter. That was the goal of someone like the leading lights of the civil rights movement,. people like martin luther king junior. But it's not only not the goal of the current in of anti racism, it is explicitly not the gol that goal is disavowed by many people. We'l want to know how many blonds got into har

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