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366 w/ John McWhorter and Glenn Loury "Racial Identity, Abolition and Reckonings"

The Fifth Column

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Are We Starting to Move in a Different Direction

I think one thing we might ask is, have we peped nanly? Have reached pek woke? And are things beginning to move in a different direction? For a while it felt very hard to broach those subjects without echoing the popular narratives about ally ship and anti racism. But if i take the experience with my students at brown, i teach a big undergraduate chorus on race, crime and punishment. It's got 100 students enrolled in it. They write papers, they read a wide range of materials, and we cuss. So i'm cautiously optimistic about my college students intellectual integrity. On the other hand, they haven't complete surrendered their faculties of reason on these questions that

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