Coleman Hughes On 'The End Of Race Politics'
Federalist Radio Hour
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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You can find Hughes' book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments For A Colorblind America," here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to go. We're back with another edition of The Federalist Radio Hour. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm Emily Jershensky, culture editor here at The Federalist as always you can email the show at radio at the Federalist |
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| 0:35.2 | So excited to be joined by Coleman Hughes today. |
| 0:38.0 | He's the author of the new book The End of Race Politics. |
| 0:41.4 | Arguments for a color-blind America. That book is out on |
| 0:44.8 | February 6th. He's also the host of the popular podcast, Conversations with Coleman, |
| 0:49.3 | and he writes over at sub-stack at Coleman Hughes. Substack.comcom. You're busy man Coleman. Thanks for coming |
| 0:55.1 | on Federalist radio hour. Very happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Of course. I |
| 0:59.8 | follow your work really closely. I'm so much I'm such a fan of so much of what you write and I was hoping maybe we could start just with some of the personal stuff that you write about in the end of race politics |
| 1:09.7 | sort of about your experience at Columbia University in the Ivy League, picking up on some pessimism that was surprising, |
| 1:18.6 | or maybe it wasn't surprising to you, but maybe seemed out of touch or just, you know, kind of unexpected. |
| 1:25.0 | Can you talk to us a little bit about that experience? |
| 1:28.0 | Absolutely, so I enrolled at certainly in the past 10 years at least if not longer will know that these are some of the least racist places on planet Earth. |
| 1:50.8 | In other words, if I were to assess my likelihood of, say, being called |
| 1:56.0 | the N-word in a million different locations on planet Earth, just sampling the level of racism around the world. I would find |
| 2:04.8 | Columbia's campus, Harvard's campus, Princeton's campus, to rank at the |
| 2:09.7 | absolute lowest level of that kind of old school racism. So it was a surprise when I got |
| 2:17.3 | to school and this is even coming from growing up in a liberal location. |
| 2:23.2 | It was a surprise to see that almost every other day in the campus newspaper, |
| 2:31.2 | other black kids on campus were claiming to experience white supremacy |
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