Kmele Foster, Robert Woodson, Shelby Steele & Reihan Salam – The Ethics of Black Identity
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Are You Overacting?
Roland Martin: I think Ralph Nader is a perfect example of how you market ideas and principles. When he comes before the Congress to convince the Congress that we need to regulate automobiles, he comes with weeping parents of 16-year-old who was lost in a pinto. By contrast, conservatives will come with four white guys with blue suits with ties with charts with data. Who wins that fight? And so I think it's important that you have to have the right symbols. The abolitionists move, the principled rejection of the category race on behalf of an ideal is strategically surrendering too much.
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