Best of Think: A just world starts with imagination

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Real progress on racism and other social issues requires the imagination to think beyond our current approach. Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where she is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why we are failing at imagining a better world and how thinking big is the path to unlocking good. Her book is “Imagination: A Manifesto.”

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0:00.0	The 2024 election was a lot. And now that we're past it, you might be avoiding political news
0:07.8	altogether, or you might want to understand the other side of the aisle, but without poisoning
0:13.4	your algorithm or treading into online territory that feels like an alien planet, you need left, right,
0:19.4	and center. It's your weekly political news check-in
0:22.0	with representatives from both parties,
0:24.2	so you can hear from the other guys
0:26.2	in a way that helps you actually make sense of it.
0:28.7	I'm David Green.
0:29.5	Join me on Left, Right, and Center from KCRW.
0:32.1	New episodes drop every Friday
0:33.8	wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:45.3	Thank you. Friday, wherever you listen to podcasts. No matter how patriotic you are, it's pretty much impossible to think of the United States as a utopia.
0:52.5	Racism, sexism, classism, injustice and inequality are tangled up in
0:57.1	our official systems and in our personal interactions alike. But no matter how bleak things may seem,
1:03.3	depending on where you are positioned in society, we all retain the capacity to dream of something
1:09.5	better. From KERA in Dallas, this is think.
1:13.3	I'm Chris Boyd.
1:14.6	The first hurdle is to allow ourselves as individuals to think beyond how things are now
1:20.2	and how they've always been and picture a different sort of future,
1:24.0	one that lives up to the promise of liberty and justice for all.
1:28.9	The second is to share that vision so that we form a collective understanding of the roles we can all play in building
1:33.7	just such a society. Ruha Benjamin is professor of African American studies at Princeton University,
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