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Conversations with Coleman

The Arc of Racial Progress with Neil deGrasse Tyson (Ep.10)

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5614 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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For exclusive member-only content become a CwC subscriber via https://colemanhughes.org/ In this episode, Coleman interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson, an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In the first half of this episode, they talk about the progress that has been made in reducing racism since Neil was a child, and the prevalence of racial profiling and stereotyping in the mainstream media. In the second half, they talk about police brutality, different ways of passing data on police killing unarmed civilians, and whether an attitude of optimism or pessimism is warranted at this moment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. Before I introduce my guest today,

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I want to welcome the many new people that

1:12.0

have subscribed through my website or through Patreon in the past three weeks. It seems like there's

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a hunger for content that is not simply going along with the tide of identity politics that's

1:21.9

currently sweeping the nation like a tsunami. If you haven't subscribed yet but want to,

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I ask that you do it through my website

1:28.5

rather than through Patreon. As Patreon has been known to occasionally cancel people who are deemed

1:33.7

problematic, and I want to insulate myself against that possibility as much as I can.

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To give you a sense of how important contributing is, the podcast is now making enough money per episode to justify

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hiring an audio engineer to handle the many hours of technical work that go into making a single

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episode sound good. Of course, if you don't support the podcast financially, that's fine too.

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You can also support me by subscribing to my YouTube channel.

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Okay, today's guest is Neil deGrasse Tyson, who probably needs no introduction, but I'll give him one anyway.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.

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Since 1991, he's been the Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.

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