Rebroadcast: Can focusing on class instead of race solve our country’s equity issues?
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Liberal academic Richard Kahlenberg thinks the only way to truly solve America’s deep inequities is to look at class, not race. "When we focus exclusively on race and ignore the class issues, we are missing a huge part of what makes society unfair in America today."
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On Point is WBUR’s award-winning, daily public radio show and podcast. Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti leads provocative conversations that help make sense of the world.
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| 0:27.0 | Oracle.com slash enhance. On April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 0:44.4 | Riots broke out in cities across the country. |
| 0:48.0 | That night, Robert F. Kennedy spoke to a majority black crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
| 0:55.0 | Kennedy stood on the back of a flatbed truck. |
| 0:58.0 | He wore an overcoat that had belonged to his brother, |
| 1:01.0 | the late President John F. Kennedy, who'd been assassinated five years |
| 1:05.1 | earlier. |
| 1:06.1 | What we need in the United States is not division, but we need in the United States |
| 1:12.1 | is not hatred, but we need in the United States is not hatred, but we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, |
| 1:18.0 | but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another |
| 1:24.0 | feeling of justice |
| 1:26.0 | toward those who still suffer within our country |
| 1:30.0 | whether they be white or whether they be black. |
| 1:34.4 | Robert Kennedy had entered the 1968 presidential race barely a month earlier |
| 1:39.8 | in March of that year. |
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