If reparations happens under the bid administration, i'm going to say, ok, do it, but let's acknowledge that it matters. But i think t what would really happen is that the smart take would instantly be reparations as just a beginninge hot lime. Better not think they can treat us like animals for 400 years and then just cut us some checks. If that's all the response would be, why do it? I think that if there going to be reparations given out in some sort of intelligent way to individuals. It ought to be a situation where black america has to take a deep breath and actually allow that something significant happened. That makes perfectly no sense at all
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.