Emma Dabiri on history and belonging
How We Live Now with Katherine May
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The Antidote to Social Media Race Discourse
I have seen people who you know say oh well like that it's elitist to say that people should be like engaging with some of these texts and my response to that is like I think of the black panthers as being very very working class. They're reading like Nietzsche and Plato so I'm like I don't believe yeah I don't Believe it's Elitist to read. But when you think about that headline in the sun yesterday that actually kind of mocked builders for saying that they were reading, he says. "Woke builders" are woke because they're slightly educated and very touched with their emotions according to him.
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