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What We Get Wrong About Race - Kenan Malik

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The Importance of Social Pessimism in Shaping the Way We Look at Race and Identity

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The policing of Black people in America is far more vicious, far more brutal than anything that goes on in America. And so whenever a conversation starts in America, and BLM is a good example of this, it's sort of imported wholesale here. So yes, in that sense, I agree with you. But also that we need to take the wider frame into account too. The importance of what I call social pessimism in shaping the way we look at race and identity is as significant in Britain as it is in America.

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