43: BONUS: We must abolish the new colour line

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Brendan O’Neill finds an antidote to critical race theory in the robust universalism of WEB Du Bois.

This lecture was one of a series of talks at the boi charity’s Academy Online II: Race and Racism – a day of discussions about the intellectual history of race. The rest of the talks from that event, along with recordings of previous Academy events, are available on the boi charity’s Ideas Matter podcast here: https://theboi.co.uk/podcasts

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0:45.0	For Du Bois, the problem of the colour line is not that America was a sinful, foul,
0:51.0	inescapably racist nation, which segregated blacks must reject.
0:57.0	Rather, his argument is that it is a great and virtuous republic
1:01.0	that will be made even more so when it assimilates those who thirst for freedom
1:06.0	is the epoch of the ideal of American independence.
1:10.0	That's really important because it stands in stark contrast to today's radical view
1:15.0	of America as being born in sin and essentially being unfixable.
1:22.0	Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill Show with me, Brendan O'Neill.
1:28.0	This episode of the Brendan O'Neill Show is different to the usual ones.
1:32.0	It's a bonus episode for our listeners.
1:34.0	Instead of a conversation with an esteemed guest, this episode features a talk
1:38.0	I gave at the end of last year on W.E.B. Du Bois, focusing on his classic book,
1:44.0	The Souls of Black Folk.
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