American raceism has ma racial categories that are none the less, in so many ways, very much real. We can't wave race away as an illusion; we also shouldn't operate within its like naturalized confines. If our conversational etiquette doesn't challenge those basic things, it doesn't prevent the police from stopping and harassing and behaving violently towards caverdiance.
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on his essay "Being-in-the-Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference," an interview first posted in December 2020. This pairs well with last week's Jared Clemons interview on In This House We Believe antiracism. Since 2020, Táíwò has published a book expanding on these ideas: Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else).
Read Táíwò's essay: thephilosopher1923.org/post/being-in-the-room-privilege-elite-capture-and-epistemic-deference
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