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Hear Me Out

A Little Racism Can Be A Good Thing

Jun 13, 2023
28:45

On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… Racism Lite.


Racial politics is responsible for a lot of ugliness, in the United States and around the world. Humans want, and even need, to sort themselves into categories — and sometimes, that tribalism yields as much good as it can bad. So do we always need to be a melting pot? 


Writer Damon Young joins us to make the case that we’re all racist, and there’s no reason to pretend otherwise.


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Podcast production by Maura Currie


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