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80: The Black British Experience Is Not an American One, with Tomiwa Owolade

Where We Go Next

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Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices

Callahan: I'm sympathetic to black Americans who see a kind of racial solidarity because that was forced upon them. And it's rather glaringly obvious that black people are foundational to American society in a fundamental way, he says. Callahan: Black Britons for all the contributions they have certainly made, especially in the last several decades, are just not simply because they quite literally were not physically there.

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