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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

How Can We Talk About Concrete Effects Without Absolving Black People of Their Agency?

Sally Kohn: How can we talk about concrete effects of these historical and material factors without absolving black people of their agency? She says getting rid of systemic raceism, if you think of it as racism, rather than as a disparity that must be fixed, those are two different things. Kohn: We're all products of history. Were all products of antecedent causes over which we had no control. And so the idea is to have policies in general society that undo what happened before.

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