Critical Race Theory: What It Actually Means
Notes from America with Kai Wright
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The Convergence of Our Interests in the Civil Rights Movement
I want to hear you talk about the notion that the gains that did come from the civil rights movement Leading up to this Supreme Court case They were not the result of a mass moral awakening amongst right people But rather just a product of the convergence of our interests. What did he mean by that and why does it matter? You know, Derrick Bell talks about what would people would immediately say was a rather cynical estimation of what made thecivil rights movement possible. He argued that black progress had overwhelmingly been achieved in the society When it aligned with white interests. And so with the civilrights movement One of the dynamic fairs that also occurs against the backdrop of decolonization.
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