Coleman Hughes: evaluation

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…Do you think being half Puerto Rican has given you additional or different insight into racism? If so, what? It’s a good question. I think there may be something to the idea that kids who are products of interracial unions are more drawn towards the idea that race isn’t all that important. Because if you grow up in a scenario, especially if you grow up with two happy, loving parents, as I did, who are clearly of different races and different cultures and so forth — my mother grew up speaking Spanish, and my dad was as American as you could get — it becomes difficult to believe that there are deep dividing lines between groups of people, because your immediate context says otherwise. The two people that are most important, your parents, have formed the deepest union any two people can form. It belies the notion, it belies the people that would want to tell you that there are important divisions between the races. Insofar as that’s part of my experience, I think it’s possibly influenced me. The white conservatives who are your fans, what do you think they’re most likely to get wrong about race?…

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