Roxanne Jones: There are a number of people in this country who have formical, positive racial attitudes. Why is it that we haven't seen these attitudes translate into support for the policies that would indress some of these structura racial inequalities? She says part of the reason isn't that most people aren't willing to sacrifice those things but because education and housing has been replaced by the social welfare state over the last half century or so.
Political scientist Jared Clemons on feckless liberal anti-racism: how In This House We Believe racial liberalism leaves racial capitalism's inequalities in place and why, drawing on Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, the Black Freedom Movement instead needs solidarity with the multi-racial working class.
Read Jared's article: jaredkclemons.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/7/5/117532940/clemons_2022_-_from_freedom_now_to_blm.pdf
Interview with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell from February 2021: thedigradio.com/podcast/conservative-intelligentsia-with-sam-adler-bell-matt-sitman/
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