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So this is not the kind of thing that I usually do research on.

As he said, I mainly do ancient Greek philosophy.

But for the last few years, I've been thinking about

sort of race things in the United States and trying to understand them.

So what I'm going to offer you are, as I'm just telling for the journal, kind of half-baked ideas, not fully baked ideas.

And what I'm hoping for is I'll say something that is sufficiently provocative and interesting, that you'll have some questions for me and

that helped me kind of just work out whatever sort of issues or weaknesses I have in

what I'm going to offer. So I'm for the most of what I'm going to attempt here is not to do

actually offer you things that are prescriptive in the sense of this is what you should do and

this is how you should be. I'll gesture towards that right at the end of the talk,

but what I want to attempt, at this is my idea of what makes for good philosophy,

is sort of describe a phenomenon that I think we're all sort of navigating or under the power,

we're under its power, and see what we can sort of think about this.

And so the thing on our minds, at least in my mind, is race and the way it sort of works

itself out specifically in United States, but maybe more broadly in Western democracies.

And I think I can at least say at the beginning that when we see how it works in society, something's off.

All right, that we're like, we're not exactly sure what this thing is,

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