60 percent of black people without a college degree would agree with the statement, racism has not affected my chances of success. And they have more standing in that conversation than I as a white man have according to that epistemology. So we're at new class. The same New York Times poll I cited about a minute ago found that white progressives were something like 79 percent of white progressives agreed with a statement about black people lagging behind having to do with systemic inequality or whatever. Only 60 percent ofblack people on the whole agreed with that. White progressives were far to the left of black people on the topic of systemic racism.
In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Coleman Hughes, a young black writer quickly making a big name for himself, about how to fight discrimination against minorities without making group membership more salient than it already is.
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