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Tim Scott, and the Republican Party’s Vexed Relationship with Race
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Tim Scott, and the Republican Party’s Vexed Relationship with Race

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter.The South Carolina senator Tim Scott likes to point to himself as an example of racial progress in America. But in a recent story for The New Yorker, Robert Samuels looked into Scott’s personal story—in many ways a messier tale than the one he tells—and into the ways that the “​​concave mirror shaped by his own experience” distorts Scott’s view of politics. Samuels joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Scott’s Presidential run, and what he reveals about the Republican Party’s relationship to race and racism.
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Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism | The New Yorker
21Oct By adminNo Comments
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Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism | The New Yorker

In November of 2016, just eight days after Donald J. Trump won the U.S. Presidency, a relatively unknown Black historian, Ibram X. Kendi, received the National Book Award for a nearly six-hundred-page tome titled “Stamped from the Beginning,” a book claiming to trace the history of racist ideas in the U.S. In that moment, Kendi’s book seemed to offer some explanation for the shock of Trump’s victory: centuries of American racism and decades of toxic backlash politics. Kendi’s follow-up book, “How to Be an Antiracist,” sold more than a million copies as the country grappled with the horrors of the COVID-19 pandemic and the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. By the end of Trump’s term, Kendi had become a household name.In the tumult of 2020, Time magazine declared Kendi to be one of t...
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