I'm Not Offering Anyone a Promised Land, Neither Am I Offering You a Utopian

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If race majorities produce utopias, and every white person in america would be thriving right now, because they've been in the majority off every state except hawaii for the last 90 years. The argument here is simply this, that, on the aggregate, people do better when they do not have to suffer under white supremacy than when they do. You will still have good and bad people, because that is the human condition. Those issues will not evaporate. What you are trying to see what society is like where white supremacy is not the guiding esos over black body.

In this week's episode Charles Blow speaks to journalist Dele Olojede about the arguments in his new book The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. He argued that if enough African-Americans move south, the demographic balance in the Southern States will be tipped in favour of Black voters and politicians. His new home state of Georgia – he practises what he preaches and left Brooklyn for Atlanta – recently voted for a Democrat presidential candidate and two Democratic Senate candidates, one of whom became the first Black senator in the state’s history. The growing African-American population in Georgia was pivotal in these votes, Blow believes. To find out more and buy the book click here: https://www.primrosehillbooks.com/product/the-devil-you-know-a-black-power-manifesto-charles-m-blow-subscribers/

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