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Chuck Rabardi. Coleman Hughes traces his ancestry back to an enslaved man who was forced to work on Thomas Jefferson's

Montecello Plantation.

His grandfather was a highly educated black man who was told not to apply for a management job because white colleagues would resent working for him.

Hughes's father is black. His mother was Puerto Rican who hailed from the South Bronx in New York.

So does all that give you a pretty good understanding of who Coleman Hughes is?

Well, Hughes himself would say, with absolute certainty, no.

Telling you the story about the color of his skin tells you next to nothing about who he is, Hughes would say.

In fact, I believe he'd say that by beginning today's show with a racial description, we've fallen hard into what he calls

the pernicious intellectual trap that claims race is the most salient fact about any American.

In fact Coleman Hughes would go farther. He says there are

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