Coleman Hughes, welcome to the show.

Good to be here.

Why is seeing people through the lens of race cool again?

So, uh, So basically what happened is in the 1970s and 80s you have these schools of thought that

crop up.

Critical race theory being the primary one. And basically

it's confined to a few law schools. It's very marginal. You'll never

encounter it in 1980 unless you are actually at one of the schools where it's popular.

Most people are not academics, most people are not graduates, and most graduates are not in these programs.

So it's this philosophy crops up which says that white supremacy is everywhere

embedded in the various institutions of the country, and therefore all

institutions need to be destroyed and rebuilt.

But it doesn't matter because no one really believes it. Very few. Here's what

changes. What changes is that in 2013 everyone gets a camera-enabled smartphone and social media. Everyone in their mother is on

Facebook, which means fundamentally the way people get information has changed.

Before 2013, let's say in 2005 or something,

if a white cop was arresting a black suspect

and the situation went left.

There was a fight, a struggle for a gun or something, and the cop shot the suspect.

In Topeka, Kansas.

You would only hear about it in Topeka, Kansas. You would only hear about it in Topeka, Kansas.

It would be in the newspaper, the local newspaper the next day.

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