Welcome to another Prager U5 Minute Podcast. Today's episode, The Whiteness of Wokeness,

but first an announcement. Prager U Personality Amela Ekpanobe just launched her new show called

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episode. Most people advocating for radical social change on behalf of people of color are not

themselves people of color. How do you explain that? Wilford Riley, Professor of Political Science at

Kentucky State University, has some answers. Enjoy. How do you explain this? Most people agitating for

radical social change on behalf of people of color are not themselves people of color. They're

overwhelmingly woke white leftists. They use the genuine plight of poor minorities as a wedge,

a lever by which to change the basic character of American society, a change that most people of color

do not want. Both anecdotal evidence and hard data bear this out. A good example is the woke

left's obsession with politically correct speech. Ostensibly, this is all in the service of

protecting the tender feelings of long-suffering minorities. However, according to the best publicly

available data, most minority groups dislike PC culture more than whites do. 88% of Native Americans,

87% of Hispanics, 82% of Asian Americans, and 75% of blacks versus 79% of whites call political

correctness a problem. According to multiple studies, only young white, college educated liberal

and leftist women strongly support speech restrictions. A Pew poll about the use of the term Latins,

an attempt to remove gender from Latino and Latina makes this point. Only a quarter of all Hispanics

and 38% of Hispanic college graduates have even heard of the term. What's more, only 3% ever

opt to use it? Many find it ridiculous. If anything, the pattern here is one of white leftists

telling Hispanics to speak in a more woke fashion and Hispanics refusing to comply. This turns out

to be the rule, not the exception. Defunding the police, a left-wing cause celebs for much of 2020

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