Writer: What we're witnessing is something called law fear. It uses a technique that goes all the way back from practitioners of fashism. And it puts you on the defensive by ultimately responding to the slur when, in fact, the phenomenon they are talking about doesn't exist. A critical race theory is not being taught in elementary schools, secondary schools, et cetera. Young white kids are far less fragile than these parents present them to be. We as custodians of the truth have an obligation to continue that struggle.
Professor Lewis Gordon is a leading philosopher and Department Head at the University of Connecticut who believes that intellectual thought matters as much as political activism in the struggle to achieve racial justice. His recent book Fear of Black Consciousness is an exploration that combines academic theory and also his ideas on pop culture to create a broad and thought-provoking study, Gordon is joined in conversation by Professor Paul Gilroy, author, one of the world’s foremost theorists of race and racism, and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London.
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