Coleman Hughes: evaluation

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…We’ll get back to miscellaneous questions, but now let’s get to your book. Again, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America. How would you give us your bottom-line message in the book? I don’t usually do this, but how would you explain it? Yes. I would basically explain it by saying the idea of color blindness, by which I mean trying to treat people without regard to race and having color-blind, race-neutral public policy: that’s become a dirty word and a dirty concept, in particular on the Left, in the past couple decades — really in the past decade. This book is an attempt to rescue color blindness from the jaws of disdain and argue that it is the best overall philosophy by which to view the idea of race. That we want to raise our children — even if it’s a watered-down version of MLK, we ought to raise our children on that message. We ought to get race out of public policy and, wherever possible, wherever plausible, use socioeconomics where we want to deal with issues of disadvantage. If I understand you correctly, you’re also suggesting in our private lives we should be color-blind.…

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