Interview w/ Coleman Hughes: The End of Race Politics

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In this special episode of New Ideal Live, Elan Journo interviews Coleman Hughes on his new book The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America (www.amazon.com/End-Race-Polit.... They discuss Hughes’ case for colorblindness, his critique of the “anti-racist” movement, and his views about why we need to abandon race as a meaningful category. Hughes also comments on Ayn Rand's individualist analysis of racism.
Among the topics covered:
● How the ideal of colorblindness disappeared from American intellectual life;
● How the concept of colorblindness has been misunderstood;
● How the “anti-racist” movement perverted the concept of racism;
● The meaning of the attempts to suppress Hughes’ TED talk;
● Hughes’ evaluation of Ayn Rand’s individualist critique of racism;
● How to think about racism today;
● Pinning down the vague notion of “systemic racism”;
● How universities push a perverted conception of diversity;
● How the “anti-racist” movement craves power, not justice;
● Why race says nothing about a person's identity.
Mentioned in this podcast is Ayn Rand’s essay “Racism.” (courses.aynrand.org/works/rac...)
The podcast was recorded on January 23, 2024.
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:46 Disappearance of the ideal of colorblindness
0:06:16 Misunderstanding of colorblindness
0:08:57 Perverting the concept of “racism”
0:14:06 Suppressing Hughes’ TED talk
0:21:02 Hughes on Rand’s view of racism
0:25:45 Thinking about racism today
0:30:47 The vague notion of “systemic racism”
0:35:38 Universities’ conception of diversity
0:40:10 “Anti-racist” movement craves power
0:46:35 Race and one’s identity
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@kathryndawson3500 6 ай бұрын

I think Coleman Hughes will ultimately become a member of my "Heros" list.

@tomburroughes9834 6 ай бұрын

He is already on my list of heroes! Top guy.

@johnwayne6646 6 ай бұрын

Very hyped for this.

@simonphuket7782 6 ай бұрын

Great guest! Brilliant thinker!

@biblicalworldview1 5 ай бұрын

This is just so good. I have followed Coleman for a few years now, and I find him to be just such a clear thinker. I find his arguments to be articulate and unassailable. I mean I guess they are assailable by people, as he points out, who benefit from continued perceived racism.

@roselewsley4125 5 ай бұрын

I truly enjoyed that conversation, thank you both!

@stevenkreisman443 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for another interesting podcast. It motivates me to read the book. I just ordered it on Amazon.

@eduardorpg64 6 ай бұрын

Congrats on being able to invite Coleman Hughes to give a talk on this podcast! It's so cool that you've ben able to invite famous people like him or Yeonmi Park to give talks on the Ayn Rand Institute's KZfaq Channel!

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

Its an opening for Objectivism to the wider culture.

@MikeDial 6 ай бұрын

I pre-ordered today.

@user-uu6jb9wx3u 6 ай бұрын

An excellent, informative discussion of color blindness. Thank you!

@kathryndawson3500 6 ай бұрын

Excellent show!

@Mr.Witness 6 ай бұрын

A finely done interview thats engaging and informative. Coleman Hughes was an awesome guest!

@Jeremy54321 3 ай бұрын

The discussion about freeing people to have the conversation without being cancelled is so relevant today. The fact that people get cancelled from just "free speech" that is... "anti-woke" [using the neowoke definition] [I'm a liberal, progressive egalitarian], is really apropos.

@mulchortoast 6 ай бұрын

Bravo Coleman!

@sdrc92126 6 ай бұрын

If America wasn't racist before, it sure is now. Thanks CRT! It's so sad I missed the first 30 years of my life not being able to automatically judge people as a first instinct. It's probably a skill that needs to be learned at a young age so I'll never be good at it. fml

@sidehustlerchallenger 6 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@chestermazurowski5167 5 ай бұрын

I think you should watch the December 14, 2005 CBS Mike Wallace interview with Morgan Freeman. It is the same subject matter in Coleman Hughes new book. Nineteen years ago.

@KevinFitzMauriceEverett 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing intelligent ideas in a world that pushes foolishness as intelligence.

@RollingTree2 5 ай бұрын

Well done interview (good leading questions by an interviewer letting the interveiwee do most of the exposition). Coleman hughes is a rare careful, full context thinker well matched to ARI. Perfect interview host as well ...the interview brought to mind many paralells to Elan Journo's book/points on the Israel/Palestine conflict.

@paulcohen9122 6 ай бұрын

Awesome interview. Just pre-ordered his book on Audible.

@DaboooogA 4 ай бұрын

Excellent discussion - thanks

@mariabusold3809 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Mister Coleman. In 2021 my german goverment apologized for the namibian Herero genozid of 1905 and offered a reperation of 1100 millions Euros. But the namibian Herero activity groups can´t decide if to accept the offer or not. For me our duty of apologize is hereby fullfilled.

@raymondjensen4603 3 ай бұрын

To understand where we are today..., just imagine the assumptions made in this conversation would have gone over in the 1950's.

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

"Exploit" is not defined. The house used by the philosophy dept at my alma mater for informal discussion later was used only for "black unity."

@Bumper_jed 4 ай бұрын

Coleman is on a track started by Booker T Washington

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

What about Moms Mably?!

@Jeremy54321 3 ай бұрын

growing up during a time where we were a "melting pot" was amazing. It wasn't until we became a "mosaic" and that became a really, highly socialized trend, that race got weird. Don't get me wrong. racism is wrong, and I do think systemic racism DOES exist. But he makes a really good point in his book. You can't reduce racism and discrimination in the world by being racist and discriminatory.

@Mark-hc8ek 6 ай бұрын

Let's dream....

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

What about the feelings of incompetent people?!

@themictator 6 ай бұрын

8:11 "Just like we're capable of being selfish, or any number of human flaws" Who wants to tell him?

@BuFFoTheArtClown 6 ай бұрын

7:20 WRONG! I LITERALLY didn't register ONCE that you were black in any way, shape or form. None. Until you pointed it out. You and Elan are just two people conversing for my pleasure/education. I didn't even think of Elan as white until I typed out this sentence. Which is the irony here. I was educated in liberal/leftist new York in the 80's and 90's and was taught color blindness by the collectivists. And it worked! I don't register people's color/race unless it's overt in some fashion. What you need to do is interview the leftists who think color blindness didn't work, and have them talk to me. I can tell their 90 year old asses that their methods worked perfectly. It's really a shame that a "tool of color blindness" which can work, was discarded so easily by the modern left-influenced education system.

@raymondjensen4603 3 ай бұрын

Look, whether you see color or not is really unimportant..., it's whether you give it any credence. If you drive a red chevy or a green chevy, it's still just a chevy.

@reginaldhblackwood8474 6 ай бұрын

LOU, WHY ARE YOU BLOCKING OUT THE VIDEO INFORMATION? Your donation image is too too big.

@joelharvey 5 ай бұрын

The point he makes about police forces needing to be diverse is a little bit weak, because the implication is that it's right for the community to regard white police officers with suspicion. I doubt white neighbourhoods would have a problem with a mostly black police force as long as they were competent. It's almost like he's saying allowances should be made for people who believe the wrong things.

@dougschorr4347 6 ай бұрын

You opened the video with "our constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among its citizens". Similarly but supposedly much better, in 1994, majority rule South Africa adopted a new constitution. From being Africa's powerhouse SA is fast collapsing into, in terms of Syed Akbar Ali's definition, a failed state. Everyone has rights except tax payers and their families.

@Bumper_jed 4 ай бұрын

Dreamers

@TeikonGom 6 ай бұрын

8:11 Hughes is clearly not aware of which channel he's on.

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

Race politics, Right or Left, is a product of the unfocused mind, as fundamentally advocated in Kantian nihilism. The unfocused mind is limited to mindlessly and automatically responding to immediate experience. The unfocused mind rationalizes its arbitrary content but it cannot reason, cannot abstract from the perception of concrete reality.

@PortugalZeroworldcup 6 ай бұрын

Sergei Rachmaninoff,Nadia Comaneci, zedd,Arty, Martina Navratilova, Milos forman, sergei brin, came to USA for better life

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

600,000 Americans died in the Civil War.

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

I hope that Hughes is not a moderate Leftist opposing the consistent Leftism of biological(?) "identity" group politics. That spoiled _The Identity Trap_ by Yascha Mounk.

@cherylnagy126 5 ай бұрын

Usonians

@kaiterenless1888 6 ай бұрын

Blindness, of any kind, is a disability.

@loum5254 6 ай бұрын

This was terribly boring.

@michaeljames8410 6 ай бұрын

Many would disagree. The idea of 'colour-blindness' may be boring if you take it as a given, but the fact that people considered it a controversial topic is interesting. Also, the discussion towards the end of the video about the amnesia and gaming of progressive gains was interesting and not something I'd thought about before.

@loum5254 6 ай бұрын

@@michaeljames8410 I didn't make it that far. I'll have a listen later. Regarding my comment that it was boring: The whole movement that redefined racism as prejudice + power should have been dismissed from the outset. How did this idiotic idea catch on enough that it has to be addressed. Hence, boring.

@TeaParty1776 6 ай бұрын

@@loum5254 Mainstream Leftistt intellectuals are influenced by Marxist equality. And many Americans feelguilty for anti-black racism. Also, Mar infliuenced many to think economics=politics, ie, that production is force. I believe Rand discusses this in _Capitalism_.