The Black Body

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Black body is a rhetorical term that refers to the idea that black people are not seen as quite whole by whites. It's been shown that there are some doctors who have some of that in them, says Ounow. "i'm 55, i can certainly say that up through graduate school and yand i have known white people who liked me very much"

Dr. Shermer speaks with John McWhorter about his new online book on how the antiracism movement poses a threat to progressive America. Shermer and McWhorter discuss: antiracism as a religion; the 3 waves of antiracism; the antiracism trinity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi; white fragility; Black Lives Matter; systemic racism (incarceration rates, housing, jobs, income, etc.); reparations; George Floyd, Tony Timpa and police violence; the N-word and language as violence; and Third Wave Antiracism catechism.