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The Suburban Women Problem

Okay, But Why Are We Still Talking About Racism?

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

4.8850 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

When James Baldwin went on the Dick Cavett Show in 1969, he was asked a very loaded question: why aren’t Black people more optimistic? Jim Crow laws had been outlawed, Black people were becoming mayors and successful businesspeople… so why was he still talking about race? Obviously racism didn’t “end” with the Civil War, or the Civil Rights Act, or Obama’s election. In fact, Donald Trump has spurred a resurgence — there’s been a nearly 50% increase in white supremacy groups just in the past f...

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0:00.0

There's so much happening in politics right now.

0:04.0

So red, white and blue is here to ask, okay, but why?

0:09.0

It is not new for me. It is new for you.

0:16.0

And if we were white, our heroes be your heroes too.

0:20.0

And that turn will be a hero for you instead of a threat.

0:22.1

Malcolm X might still be alive.

0:25.3

What the American public has always tried to do is to accommodate me into a system

0:29.0

which is always meant to my death.

0:31.7

They want me to become an accomplice to my own murder.

0:35.9

That is what you really mean by integration.

0:38.0

Integration is a euphemism to white supremacy.

0:41.0

The truth is that we've been integrated here since we got here.

0:46.4

Most of us can agree that America has a racist past.

0:51.3

We enslaved other human beings.

0:58.0

And even after the Civil War, injustices like lynching and Jim Crow laws persisted. But despite the troubling resurgence of white supremacy groups,

1:05.0

with a nearly 50% increase since 2022, many Americans still believe that racism is a thing of the past.

1:14.1

This is America, they say.

1:16.5

Everyone has an equal opportunity.

1:19.1

Or talking about race is what's actually racist.

1:23.2

First time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, I said, that's a terrible name.

1:27.6

It's so discriminatory.

1:29.0

It's bad for black people.

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