Why Are There Not More Girls in STEM Programs?

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There are ten thousand philosophers in this country with phdes, and about a hundred, 30 of them are black. So it's just tat it'll take. I think the numbers increase more and more, but it takes time to broaden the cultural sphere of inclusion such that people take an interest in these fields which were heretofore closed to minorities. And so generationally, those habits and those that sense of encouragement, or that sense of just feeling entitled, that one is entitled to j to belong in those in those domains, am is is almost like second skin. But i don't think it's based on something like systemic racism - we can ostensibly say thereis wintry weather

In this conversation with Jason Hill based on his book What do White Americans Owe Black People? Racial Justice in the Age of Post-Oppression, Shermer probes the philosopher on the arguments for and against reparations.

In this provocative and highly original work, philosophy professor Jason Hill explores multiple dimensions of race in America today, but most importantly, a black-white divide which has grown exponentially over the past decade.

Central to his thesis, Hill calls on black American leaders (and their white liberal sponsors) to escape from the cycle of blame and finger-pointing, which seeks to identify black failures with white hatred and indifference. This overblown narrative is promulgated by a phalanx of black nihilists who advocate the destruction of America and her institutions in the name of ending “whiteness.” Much of the black intelligentsia consists of these false prophets, and it is their poisonous ideology which is taught, uncontradicted, to students of all races. It is they who are responsible for the cultural depression blacks are suffering in today’s society.

Ultimately, the answer to “what do White Americans owe?” is not about the morality or practicality of reparations, affirmative action, or other redistributionist schemes. Hill rejects the collectivist premise behind the argument, instead couching notions of culpability, justice, and fairness as responsibilities of individuals, not arbitrary racial or ethnic groupings.