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15 Mar 2017

” It’s because after a while you get good at spotting the absence of that weight. And it explains as well the well-known phenomenon of how disproportionately successful West Indians are when they come to the United States because they seem to be better equipped to deal with the particular pathologies attached to race in this country — my mother being a very good example.

“” It’s because after a while you get good at spotting the absence of that weight. And it explains as well the well-known phenomenon of how disproportionately successful West Indians are when they come to the United States because they seem to be better equipped to deal with the particular pathologies attached to race in this country — my mother being a very good example.”

Speaker: Malcolm Gladwell
Episode: Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
Publisher: Conversations with Tyler

Malcolm Gladwell

What Malcolm said.

I feel like I’m jumping around, I’m eminently persuadable on it. And what that has done is, it’s been very, very useful now because now, it’s very fashionable for liberals to be super into the Affordable Care Act because it’s under fire.