How Hopeful Are You for the Future of the United States?

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Phith: How hopeful are you that your vision of american society might succeed over the next 25 or 50 years? Phith: I don't know is the short answer. The long answer is thaty it could just keep going in the same direction. i would like to be an advocate for the idea of a color blind society, and a society where you can go for weeks or months at a time without thinking of race.

Coleman Hughes is the host of Conversations with Coleman. Racialized, his first book, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Coleman Hughes discuss how we can remain vigilant about racial injustice without treating others differently on account of their race; whether reparations for slavery are justified in theory and workable in practice; and how we should measure progress on race.

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