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#285 – Glenn Loury: Race, Racism, Identity Politics, and Cancel Culture

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The First Black President of the United States

I was excited by the Obama candidacy. At first I was skeptical, because after all he's not black. But blackness is flexible it's something that you can put on or you can take off to a certain degree for some people and so be it. Our time has come. Hope and change. We are the ones we've been waiting for. These are slogans from 2008. That seems like forever ago then Barack Obama became president. Now at that time, perhaps you identify as conservative already. So politics aside, just in general, how did it feel that in 150 years where this country has come along?

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