Do You Think That Ending the War on Drugs Would Do More for Black America?

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Ending the war on drugs would do more for black america than any amount of white understanding their privilege. I think that poor black kid should be taught to read the way reading scientists have found since 19 60,. fucking five, that it actually works. And i would that those three things alone would make black people much less likely to encounter the cops. We can work on the cops, but with 18 thousand precincts, i'm worried that my that is an ambitious thing to wish the change.

John McWhorter is an author, a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, argues that we must understand wokeness, quite literally, as a religion.

In this week’s conversation, John McWhorter and Yascha Mounk discuss the nature of today’s social progressivism, whether it constitutes a religion, and how we can actually help to reduce racial disparities in the United States.

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