Is race politics poisoning young minds? Coleman Hughes weighs in

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Is race politics poisoning young minds? Coleman Hughes offers his argument.
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Coleman Hughes is an American writer and podcast host known for his work on issues related to race, racism, and racial inequality. In this interview, we dive into the themes of his book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America."
Hughes articulates a vision for a future where individuals are judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. Drawing from research and personal insights, he advocates for a society that embraces a colorblind ethos, aiming to dismantle divisive narratives and foster a more inclusive national identity.
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About Coleman Hughes:
Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster and opinion columnist who specializes in issues related to race, public policy and applied ethics. Coleman’s writing has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Quillette, The City Journal and The Spectator. He appeared on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list in 2021.

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@TraversyMedia 2 ай бұрын

This guy is fantastic and makes so much sense (rare these days). The fact that this could be controversial just shows how insane the world is. I feel like we were headed in the right direction with this until the 2010s when everyone went nuts. I feel like Im in some kind of twisted dimension where “judging people by the content of their character” is now a bad racist thing. Looney tunes

@technolus5742 2 ай бұрын

It's a bad thing when it's an argument for preserving inequality. That is not the case here.

@pouetpouetdaddy5 2 ай бұрын

2010: the beginning of social media…and the circulation and rebirth of idea who was dead because ineffective. Offense is a money-making scheme. And traditional medias give up and give them attention they shouldn't get, because its "progressives". When I hear youngster now, that homophobia, racism or sexism is as high than in the fifties, I know they are pretty much manipulate, not even knowing how much the world change in the last 40 years in this front

@NanaOHL 2 ай бұрын

100% if you ask most minorities how they would prefer to be judged it would be on the content of their character, you know, the thing they can control

@KwendeMadu 2 ай бұрын

In other words he's telling white people what they want to hear, While that may assuage your conscience it does nothing to stop pervasive, institutionalized and systemic racism that I deal with daily.

@jaientenduunevoix726 2 ай бұрын

Social media and smartphones melted the brains of millennials and zoomers. Viral, out of context videos and horrible ideas spread like wildfire

@Pangolier 2 ай бұрын

I am always surprised that I need to select my race and ethnicity in every form I fill in recently. Always asking myself why do they need this?

@SnozberriesTasteLikeSnozberrys 2 ай бұрын

I won't do it anymore, and I'm not opening the door for the census either. Knock till ur knuckles bleed, sweet cheeks😂 Why do they need to know if my kids are the same race as me, My marital status. Next they will need a list of our sexual History 😂

@jayl271322 2 ай бұрын

It’s relevant as part of demographic data collection that’s needed for planning. The census is an analogous example.

@VestaRoleplay 2 ай бұрын

Sure, but we know that it’s not only used as data collection. There’s evidence that schools are using it for arbitrary reasons.

@heynicetomeetyou 2 ай бұрын

Examples? Haven't ever seen any race or ethnicity selector.

@pouetpouetdaddy5 2 ай бұрын

@@jayl271322but why the state of melanin of your skin should be important for a job?

@SmugAmerican 2 ай бұрын

The establishment doesnt want the discussion to slide from identity politics too far into a discussion of class, and of war. Imagine if every American was mainly concerned with the trillions we spend waging wars.

@Bgrk 2 ай бұрын

I think this would be the main opposition to this type of thought. It would mean we have to teach people about class. Which is not something your average billionaire would want to be taught. Because to become that rich you usually do that through inheritance of generational wealth. Which in a merit based society would be seen as wrong & a form of nepotism. Rich people would defund anything that teaches about class. Because they don’t want to be like the monarchies of old Europe & have all their power stripped from them.

@kp8923 2 ай бұрын

@@BgrkOr their head stripped from them. Lol

@CCthekink123 2 ай бұрын

It was before 2010

@drew2pac 2 ай бұрын

I did my masters research into a similar topic. The biggest factor for later life outcomes in socio-economic background at birth. Way more than race, gender, sexuality etc. I fully believe this is part of it. At uni they bang on about race etc a lot, but funny, as 99% professors are from privileged upbringings.... I always saw it as a deflection

@danieldonoghue8722 2 ай бұрын

@@drew2pac I'm looking into predictors of life outcome at the moment. Particularly the effect of socio-economic upbring relative to factors focused on in DEI. Do you have a thesis I can look up? Or suggestions for good review articles on this? Thanks

@austinrhoads 2 ай бұрын

Ive been waiting to see this perspective more mainstream for a long time. Creating a better healthier future requires this kind of realism in philosophy and in policies (based on socioeconomics).

@dravenlee4473 2 ай бұрын

I'm firmly in the colorblind camp that Coleman describes. Yes - you see that a person has a different color skin and you acknowledgement that they may have a different life experience than you do but you shouldn't just assume that. Treat everyone equally with respect and dignity. I want race to ultimately be like hair color. It's just a trait. This is how the majority of the world treated race for most of our existence.

@RicardoMorenoAlmeida 2 ай бұрын

ALWAYS assume others have a different experience than yours. It is impossible to know another persons mind, and even IF they had all the same experiences as you, their understanding and processing of those experiences still would be different. Treat everyone with respect and dignity, yes, until they prove they don't deserve it. I agree with you that skin color should just be a trait, like heir color, unless it's important, like in medicine, where your biology matters. Doctors should NOT treat people differently because of skin color, but should take traits into consideration for treatment. People of African descent, for example, have been shown to have higher rates of heart disease. Just one more thing, I think we should NOT be referring to "race", but either skin color, or more broadly, ethnicity. We are all one "race", human (homo sapiens sapiens). The very phrasing "race" gives the biological idea that we are different.

@beng4647 Ай бұрын

He thinks you are the problem.

@goaheadmakemyday7126 2 ай бұрын

For the folks who think that a color blind approach would just perpetuate racial inequality, remember that since people of color are more likely to be poor, economic and class based policies would disproportionately help them. Class is the best proxy for ameliorating systemic inequality, not race.

@NanaOHL 2 ай бұрын

100% if you ask most minorities how they would prefer to be judged it would be on the content of their character, you know, the thing they can control

@llamalover02 2 ай бұрын

I was raised to never see color, treat all others with equal respect, and to also generally be a good person. Acknowledging that we are all simply... human. I feel like recently it is now considered wrong? I still do not see how, though.

@blessingsnyder9793 Ай бұрын

👏🏽👏🏽💯Very well said

@connieconway244 Ай бұрын

I was raised the same way but am now reprimanded and schooled by others that J must look around and recognize black people to be sure that they are given priority in order to make sure they are not discriminated against. So I am being told I am being racist if I don’t look at color

@marvinbrown1717 2 ай бұрын

I'm intrigued by Coleman's argument. As someone that identifies, and is perceived by others as Black, it sucks to grapple with the idea of being a diversity acceptance. I once had a "friend" tell me that the only reason why I got into the colleges I did was because of my race. While at university, I met plenty of folks that were not very bright, just had access to lots of resources needed to be a competitive applicant, so thoughts doubt quickly dissipated (but nonetheless, I'm sure I'm not the only person of color to have to have had experience this). I do lean more towards to inequities being class base; but I also think race in America is so intrinsically tied to class/social capital, that one would be foolish not to consider race a factor. One thing I will say, I really dislike anecdotal experiences as evidence; it sounds like Coleman's childhood was a lovely "colorblind" experience, but there are plenty of folks without that said experience [and class is not a factor... please talk to children of color at independent schools]. Lastly, isn't France technically a colorblind society when it comes to social policies? And I think I read, but I am unsure, that people of color are disproportionally impacted by social inequities (for example, incarceration, health, access to capital, etc. ect.).

@woopityscoop2863 2 ай бұрын

^ this.

@jayl271322 2 ай бұрын

What does it mean to “identify as and be perceived by others as black”? Is it different in some way to simply being black? I’m interested in your framing.

@RealDealy 2 ай бұрын

This guy is really Puerto Rican, at least that is what he identifies as He even spoke against Black Americans receiving reparations under his real name, "Coleman Cruz Hughes"

@timhaldane7588 2 ай бұрын

@@jayl271322 it's a way of speaking that highlights that race is a largely socially constructed category, not an intrinsic property. In other words, "race" is sociology, not biology. This idea might seem unintuitive to some, who might point to that fact that children strongly resemble their parents, but it's important to understand that it's our definitions (ie, the cluster of features we associate with a particular "race") that are arbitrary, and that the closer we look at the actual underlying genetics, the more these superficial distinctions disappear. The flip side of this, however, is that these very superficial qualities DO have very real social consequences.

@marvinbrown1717 2 ай бұрын

@@jayl271322 Sure! Thanks for the question. There are people that are racially ambiguous for example, and sometimes they maybe perceived racially than what they identify as. In the context of being Black, historically, and even today, there are people that self-identify as Black, but maybe perceived as racially something else (for example, being able to pass).

@georgecasseus6893 2 ай бұрын

Again I agree with basing policies on socio-economic factors more than race. That should be the direction of the United States as we mature. However, we can't ignore the massive racial inequalities that have been built over hundreds of years. Yes, we are taking strides to reduce them, but we can't completely ignore race until we can build a better foundation. I've worked in Montclair NJ, and have family there now. But it has a deep history of racial bias and racism. Montclair was a redline city that barred black Americans from owning homes there. Not so long ago. I am so glad that Mr. Hughes has had a diverse experience growing up there recently. It is a testament that a racially integrated America can work. But it hasn't always been like that. And many Montclair residents of color are still discriminated against. There must be a solution that addresses the racial disparities while promoting a future of "colorblind" America.

@jeremy454 2 ай бұрын

This guy hits the nail right on the head when separating reality into social vs natural constructs. The more we cling to social constructs and deny natural constructs the more we set up future failure

@VestaRoleplay 2 ай бұрын

Education and careers are supposed to be based on meritocracy and not racial discrimination.

@circassianlondoner 2 ай бұрын

As someone from the North Caucasus, upon moving to an English speaking countriy, I was surprised and shocked when I found out that Caucasian in English speaking countries means "white". In the 1990s and 2000s Russia and to a certain degree still now, Caucasian meant black. Humans are one species and when I fill the nonsensical statistical form I write "human being". Thanks for this interview.

@invox9490 2 ай бұрын

27:30 MY GOD! THIS WAS SPOT ON! If you listen to nothing of this talk, you should DEFINTELY listen to this part. Loved it.

@freeyourmind112358 2 ай бұрын

Lmao imagine thinking media is showing you an unbiased real look at news and that ppl actually uploading videos of real events in real time are the ones that are lying😂

@angelicalee-celestine6640 20 күн бұрын

That was exceptional! His solutions to alleviating discrimination and bias were very pragmatic and reasonable. Every American should be voting for changes like these.

@Jahbu 2 ай бұрын

This is why I love painting in color... both literally and metaphorically.

@zeitgeist888 2 ай бұрын

Coleman gets it. He is incredibly aware and articulate in how and where we have gone wrong. If we as a society could just listen to his view and honestly change to be more colorblind we could improve the situation for everyone. Class is such a better predictor for behavior and circumstance than race ever could be yet we continue to look at race over all other factors. Great long form interview with respect for the answers Coleman gave instead of adversarial style so common today.

@herrvierkoetter 2 ай бұрын

thanx Mr. Hughes, just got your book, looking forward to reading it. Great ideas and examples for discourses. Also good for starting an argument in many circumstances ... Dangerous thoughts, though. Reminded me on some discussions in Naomi Klein's 'Doppelgänger'.

@Thejericko17 2 ай бұрын

We have never lived in a color blind society. I would love it if we could but that went out the window with the 3/5th clause, Jim Crowe, redlining and several decades of race based Supreme Court decisions. To say "we should all be color blind now" is a great aspiration but alittle niave and doesn't acknowledge or admend the damage that the century+ of none color blindness caused. I think its a good intentioned goal though. I grew up just like him and then walked out into the world and realized that most people didnt grow up that way 😂🤣.

@goaheadmakemyday7126 2 ай бұрын

Racism caused economic inequality so the way you fix that is by instituting policies that help economically disadvantaged groups, not necessarily racial groups.

@MonkeyHero 2 ай бұрын

Im not sure how what Coleman said is in opposition with what you said. He explicitly acknowledges racism exists and what it has done to people. I only take this as a perspective framework moving forward- it does not deny racists exist and stand in opposition of vulnerable populations. But how we're working with racism now doesnt seem to be working super well lately. And i say this as a born second generation progressive hippy.

@smukkejyde Ай бұрын

What a great interview. Calm, factual, taking time for definitions and just putting an idea out there.

@giftoflife365 2 ай бұрын

in the future, there may be a hybrid category for race selection/party/group, which would identify with an integrative, collective philosophy of race/ethnicity - it currently parallels independent party.

@HWHRTT 2 ай бұрын

Thank you big think for bringing him on. THOMAS SOWELL is also amazing and brilliant and would be great to hear from

@leggoentertainment2947 2 ай бұрын

Another white supremacists 🤮🤢🤮 You disgust me.

@HWHRTT 2 ай бұрын

@@leggoentertainment2947 ahh your just mad cause you are an ignorant person who can’t articulate an opinion and then just tries to throw insults that everyone has become numb to at this point because anything you don’t like is prejudice in some way instead of a different opinion and having social discourse. Take your ignorant race baiting somewhere else.

@leggoentertainment2947 2 ай бұрын

@@HWHRTT nah won't bother with mental leprechauns, I know what I said and I know it's accurate. You're just incapable of critical thinking. So you eat mental filth and call it diamonds. You are their target audience, I can't help you _"soft underbelly"._

@HWHRTT 2 ай бұрын

@@leggoentertainment2947 you do you just keep on being ignorant racist yourself and deny social and political discourse and stay in your little bubble afraid someone is trying to burst it. I will keep listening to people from all walks of life with differing opinions from either side. Have a magical day

@jarrettbobbett5230 2 ай бұрын

For me there is only one race, the human race. Humans like dogs come in all colors, shapes & sizes. It does not matter what you look or sound like but what you do & say that matters.

@connieconway244 Ай бұрын

I agree with you Jarrett but I feel like in some people’s views, I have to be inherently racist just by the fact that I am a white person. I have never felt that way but cannot say that without being attacked

@Yitz42 2 ай бұрын

I have debated many times about the fact that society makes such a big deal about defining people based on race and ethnicity. I am from America, which from my viewpoint is a blended country with skin color commonly being from a blend of ethnicity and races. We should be embracing that aspect of a person as a background rather then defining that as who a person is.

@okulusanomali9716 2 ай бұрын

❤ thanks for this intelligent and reasonable approach

@kathiemihindukulasuriya1538 2 ай бұрын

I wonder if part of the resistance to substituting class for race is that many Americans reject the idea of class, believing that the American dream transcends class. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and there was much more optimism around race. You had a number of shows like Good Times, The Jeffersons, Family Matters, 227 etc that really showed African Americans in a very positive light. I also remember as a child feeling that getting to know people from different backgrounds was like getting a bonus - you made a friend and you also got to learn about new foods or traditions. When I hear my college age daughter talk, there is so much concern about offending others with a different identity (race, sensuality etc), that I worry they will segregate themselves rather than get to know one another as individuals.

@henrytep8884 2 ай бұрын

What you forgot to mention is that African Americans never moved up on the socioeconomic ladder since the 70s. Of course that would make them resentful, and White people collectively became extremely rich especially the boomers. It’s because the reality in outcome in long run needs answer on the racial outcome disparity. But as far as people making friends with other groups, minorities do it all the time. We don’t have a problem making friends with other race, especially in America.

@kastenolsen9577 2 ай бұрын

I am part Chinese, Hebrew, Hindu, and Polish. My skin color came from my father and I get judged by this at first glance. Get to know someone before you judge them!

@room2growrose623 2 күн бұрын

Not just a great argument, personal experience, in depth research AND common sense solutions which have already been proven to work. Everyone agreed with MLK’s credo , “ judged by the content of character, not the color of skin.”

@scipdiddly 2 ай бұрын

The 1995 song "I Am Australian" by The Seekers needs a few tweeks to be turned into something universal. I'd rename it 'I am human' change the lyrics: - "we are one but we are many" to "we are one and we are many" - "we share a dream and sing with one voice" to "most of share a dream and sing with one voice" (look at you, Hamas etc.) - "I am, you are, we are Australian" to "I am, you are, we are all humans". I think colorblindness is a story that could transcend negative story types of nationalism. We are all color biased in some way or another, consciously or subconsciously, but colorblindness is a universal good story to strive towards.

@kariannecrysler640 2 ай бұрын

I see all people as unique. Things like their birth place, language, cultures, etc are just input to help understand the person. Born traits are worthy of note, especially for physical abnormalities, not to judge but to be accommodating to it out of respect. So much of this is ill taught manners & how to see people.

@vickygreenplate113 2 ай бұрын

I like this. I feel this way also. I want this book.

@michaelyoon9355 2 ай бұрын

You present such a great argument. Social media has its pros and cons... And then if you regulate it, that sets a dangerous precedent.

@michaelyoon9355 2 ай бұрын

Yea, 2010-2014 was my college years and I didn't understand it then because I was late to getting smart phone but it was revolutionary for better or worse.

@michaelyoon9355 2 ай бұрын

They also had occupy wall street then too.

@carolbonfield8622 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Coleman👏🏽

@Justineyedia 2 ай бұрын

I hardly ever think about race. We all human. Human race.

@sebastionheitzmann3233 2 ай бұрын

Great interview!❤

@williamfortune9954 2 ай бұрын

Coleman’s idea is great for ancient times when people identified with geography. Now it has been over 600 years since Europeans developed and classified people by race. To use this now in America is hardly possible to address concerns. There will still need to be a class for Natives and Freedmen to appropriately address their concerns. Colman is against that though. I also agree with the premise but think it does not match reality

@mvjboj101 2 ай бұрын

26:46 “Gooder” 😂

@Erok9 2 ай бұрын

We won't let it go, some people are far too invested in a story of suffering.

@supervegeta101 2 ай бұрын

Just as many are insistent on their story of supremacy.

@Erok9 2 ай бұрын

@@supervegeta101 I'd rather deal with the man who thinks he's my better than the man who thinks he's my responsibility.

@C-Mack 2 ай бұрын

@@Erok9 BOOM!

@technolus5742 2 ай бұрын

@@Erok9Not responsibility, justice.

@technolus5742 2 ай бұрын

@@Erok9 The men died, the sins didn't. Inequality didn't die, it's still present. The effects of wrongful actions is still present. People want to move on, but they still deal with the fallout.

@runkus6136 2 ай бұрын

Having a color blind philosophy works fine if the culture you live in is also color blind. The reason this cant work in many places (like America) is because we're the furthest thing from color blind and its to be expected. It was only 60 years ago that the last of the Jim Crow laws fell and some of our society is still playing catch up from that era.

@runkus6136 2 ай бұрын

@@ts8206 I'll just assume you have no concept of reality and the world you live in. The KKK were still actively killing people and not being held responsible, not to mention proudly marching in their annual parade. Just because you don't see things doesn't mean they aren't there.

@djgroopz4952 2 ай бұрын

People create and sustain culture. If you don't even aspire to live in a race blind society, then you are guaranteed never to live in a race blind society. I think much lies in our own power as modern-day citizens in regards to living in a race blind society today or the future. By the way, Coleman is not making the case that we don't see or know who's white or who's black, etc. He's making the case that we don't judge people by that. Race and history are real, but so is character and how it, like history, also impacts how we live today and in the future. I only personally vouch that character be our main characteristic in judging people, as it's a much more reliable descriptor of who a person is.

@runkus6136 2 ай бұрын

@@ts8206 clearly you have no concept of reality.

@runkus6136 2 ай бұрын

@@djgroopz4952 Ok I didn't say not to work towards something better, that would be ridiculous.

@motinuppi 2 ай бұрын

The opposite is true, actually. I've never seen a multiethnic society work as well as it does in the USA. Everywhere else you've got tribal conflict and civil war - but in Muricah I could talk to just about anybody and we'd all get along. Racism was dead and buried up until about Obama's term when smart phones resurrected it. One of the most shocking discoveries for me was that according to the stats, police brutality happens to whites more than it does blacks. I believed the stereotype, but it turns out the facts don't bare this out... the hustlers need their clicks, to sell their books, lectures, antiracism-trainings etc. so they keep making it out like it's worse than it ever was when it truth Dr. King already won!

@ChadZaugg Ай бұрын

I love this. Thank you 🙏🏼

@KirillSkobelev 2 ай бұрын

Remote filming 👏

@hemlock527 2 ай бұрын

There's recent research in philosophy of race suppoting a metaphysical view of race. This seems motivated in support of woke DEI politics.

@juanblanco1267 2 ай бұрын

The Anti racism movement is actually one of the most racist things i have ever seen in my lifetime

@xmifi 2 ай бұрын

In my view the reason why race still plays such high importance. It's because of politics needs a scapegoat in order to deflect from the real issues. Which the society is facing.

@PoppaCYS 2 ай бұрын

Race has always been a prominent issue that affected people. It just was not discussed like it is now because the media always discussed it in a very controlled and sanitized way. Social media has allowed for people's actual viewpoints to be expressed and discussed. If at this point you don't believe the forced migration, chattel slavery, Jim Crow, racist US economic programs/policies/law, denial of voting rights, over-policing, etc are all factors that have contributed to racial disparity in America, you'll never be convinced otherwise. I do agree that many politicians on both sides use race to achieve political success.

@technolus5742 2 ай бұрын

And the real issue you speak of is...?

@mrcuttime22 2 ай бұрын

Excellent discussion. I feel I should point out that not even Star Trek managed to imagine a colorblind or gender-neutral (I prefer individualistic or egalitarian) society. Alien-ism simply replaced the role of ethnicity and gender on each series, as each alien race was differentiated from humans, sometimes benignly, sometimes not. Most blatant were McCoy's (and others') recurring repulsion about Vulcans' "pointed ears." (I think he even "damned" them a couple of times!) And once race became a matter of "pride," which used to be a "sin," there was NO putting the genie back in that bottle.

@LukaSzent 2 ай бұрын

Really glad you let Coleman on and didn’t give into wokeism like TED.

@tymoline2 2 ай бұрын

Everyone in American should watch this video, we could learn a thing or two

@LunchboxGaming 2 ай бұрын

It always was a class issue... You guys just seeing that now?

@thedudefromrobloxx Ай бұрын

31:40 Welcome to like the 1990's lol. Why are traffic cameras so rare in the US

@DeezScotts2023 2 ай бұрын

The people arguing that working toward a colorblind mindset is outdated are the same people arguing that marriage and the nuclear family are outdated, biological sex is outdated, ALL traditional values are outdated. I understand that it is an imperfect ideal, but using the fallacy of equity as the measuring stick is infinitely more flawed; applying an alternative that inconsistently encourages identity fixation in minority groups while demonizing it in the majority group through an oversimplified oppressor/oppressed analysis is so much worse, not only in that it doesn’t help the minority groups that it pretends to, regressing them back towards our base tribal instincts and alienating them from personal agency, but it actually has the inverse impact of encouraging identity fixation in the majority group due to its patently unfair application. Colorblindness has a uniting quality, despite its imperfection, while DEI initiatives and practices based upon tenets of critical theory only encourage division.

@ariadgaia5932 2 ай бұрын

OMG! This is horrifying! I had no idea that CRT was doing THAT!!

@kastenolsen9577 2 ай бұрын

No one should deal in race, color, religeon, etc. One should see people and personalities, deal with them as such.

@checkYourDiet Ай бұрын

Reconstruction was never finished so colorblindness is impossible.

@festusidimi8942 2 ай бұрын

This is incredible

@Gettingitreal 2 ай бұрын

Your roots are everything, your colouring means nothing.

@leonardo.1024 2 ай бұрын

I thought the comment about "preserving the racial innocence of children" was a great one, and much of the media for children takes that approach; generally with at least somewhat racially varied groups of humans and often wildly multi-morphic (diversely shaped) cartoon characters. Unfortunately, as with his comparative example here, the poor separation of and blurring of existing lines between adult and children's content makes it a losing battle - if the parents are even aware or trying to fight it.

@KayySame 2 ай бұрын

Being colorblind to me is akin to minimizing or forgetting historical trauma from US slavery and the Native American genocide, so where can the idea of not dismissing those fit in here?

@russelgriffin2709 2 ай бұрын

Oh, not at all. You acknowledge it. You embrace it. You learn from it and integrate it into wisdom. You empathize with the experience of your ancestry. You bring it forward into your understanding of others' current, and past, difficult histories throughout the world. You don't forget, but you let go, move forward, live in the world with love. The "bad" people in the world, past-present-future, will not go away. You can live knowing both worlds of acceptance and discrimination co-exist. You do not dismiss this knowledge. Meanwhile, you choose how you will live "your" life.

@angels-are-real8072 2 ай бұрын

What a wise man

@KaraHirdman 2 ай бұрын

Excellent… agree

@jamesigoe 2 ай бұрын

Sounds nice in theory, but will appeal to racists, and more particularly to white, conservative, wealthy men, e.g., Ackman, Musk...

@sharimcclaskey59 3 күн бұрын

100% on point!!

@garymaritnez7 2 ай бұрын

I liveD in NJ all of my young life until 30. Montclair could have changed a lot in 30 years of course, but multi-colored is not what it was when I was there.

@breal7277 2 ай бұрын

To quote American comedian Dennis Gaxiola, "G-d knew what he was doing when he made us a bit different". People just don't get it. We don't ignore the color of our skin, we embrace it. We don 't use the color of our skin to separate us, we use it to unite us. And that is the challenge, right there!

@Cm-ni6wv 2 ай бұрын

What? Skin color is so unimportant and boring. Who cares.

@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety 2 ай бұрын

I'm color blind in every sense.

@ljsmooth69 2 ай бұрын

Well somebody doesn't know why we have different days that's because the years and generations that go on after a certain amount of time there are extra days and hours within that time creating different calendar days that in the hundreds of decades to come will the calendar will be changed to a the time differential within the day from our planet orbiting our star

@marvinbrown1717 2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure I'm following. I think the point is, that yes, it started off as scientific (Earth's orbit around the Sun). But for example why does February get the extra day for leap year, instead of March for example (nothing truly scientific about that). Or why have months at all, wouldn't we just count the days and time (which is technically 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 56 seconds... then we wouldn't have to account for leap year every 4 years).

@ljsmooth69 2 ай бұрын

@@marvinbrown1717 well it's not just about leap year it's about the extra hours. That we gain but why to your question of why certain days have less days or more days I couldn't tell you because I wasn't the one that made it up that way. Has and for having months it's a way to bookmark a Pacific event that might be happening and you can label it under that month and that day at a certain time. There's some other reasons why they are categorized in months but most of it's for filing purposes in my own opinion .

@sidpomy 2 ай бұрын

His point was we constructed each month to have the days that it does, and even to have 12 of them - not that a year isn't ~365.25 days long. It certainly wasn't the best or most apropos example, but I don't think it was entirely invalid in making his point.

@kastenolsen9577 2 ай бұрын

Social media. Bain to the social growth of humanity.

@marwar819 2 ай бұрын

Such an excellent way out of the race war and our deeply divided country. Unfortunately, a lot of black people don't want peace. Maybe whites too, I don't know. Thank you!!

@Karmooz Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@Vandelgard 2 ай бұрын

Politics is poisoning humanity in general

@ShawnRitch 2 ай бұрын

I don't know about any of you all out there, but there really is only one race -- the human race. Also, I find people that get hung up on / discriminate against ethnicity -- shady. Pun intended

@holiver1981 2 ай бұрын

Educate the kids by teaching the truth, avoiding white guilt will not lead to color blindness

@nn-NeuralNetwork 2 ай бұрын

Strong

@alexatedw 2 ай бұрын

A month tracks the moon cycles….

@nopenop1495 2 ай бұрын

In societies built on white supremacy and lopsided class dynamics favoring the wealthy, colorblindness hurts not only BIPOC but also the rest of the working class. The ruling class has some folks fighting a race war to distract from the class war. It just so happens that BIPOC are disproportionately working class and therefore harmed by the ruling class and the systemic barriers that their wealthier and non-BIPOC peers benefit from to varying degrees.

@longestvideoever 2 ай бұрын

Not every cause of disparity is race related. That is my main gripe with identity politics, whuch is the fallacy that because we are comparing two different races/genders/ages whatever that that is the cause of the disparity

@wuziq 2 ай бұрын

i think you both would agree with coleman then, that policies focusing on socioeconomics make the most sense

@nopenop1495 2 ай бұрын

@@longestvideoeverhence my mention of class dynamics. I fully believe that there is no war but class war.

@kastenolsen9577 2 ай бұрын

Education is the key to equality and prosperity. Why has education funding been cut every year. Now, there are kids that can't read or do math with a diploma! What has happened to america?

@knifehandz 2 ай бұрын

Yeah Cole!

@Azraelcruz23 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, if I were to give my two cents on this, I think we should stop using the term "colorblindness" and replace it with the more punchy sounding "racial abolition." It would harken back to the abolition of slavery in a way that I think both folks on the right and left could get behind. What do y'all think?

@MrJ1S 2 ай бұрын

Red light cams are there to make money. Abolish them

@Juicemunkey1010 2 ай бұрын

Colour blindness is essential to the future, the focus on inalienable features will be the downfall of the west

@everythingisfine9988 2 ай бұрын

Victim training 101

@Isaac_blingz 2 ай бұрын

Very intelligent man, i see myself in him kind of

@Anonymous-uw4sr 2 ай бұрын

Doesn't work though

@apple1231230 2 ай бұрын

isn't it interesting that this video isnt able to pick up traction? Maybe truly and genuinely people aren't interested in clicking a title which is very provocative and attacks the status quo. Based on my understanding of human psychology and learned IRL environment through going to college and working at bars, the majority of young people seem quite passionate about this topic. Could this POSSIBLY be a behind the curtain suppression of content? Or do you think people are genuinely uninterested in this type of video, to the degree that it's getting 1/10th this chanels typical-ish view count. Does this seem like the kind of video to achieve 10% click rate compared to the norm? Maybe IM wrong and this is indeed a boring video. or maybe they're shadow suppressing it (youtube that is, not the channel) Great video though, pretty basic IMO. When you see other human think "this other human, treat like human" very basic cave man stuff. You can acknowledge you have underlying biases and all that, but just try you're best to treat them like a walking brain that happens to have some immutable features which they had no control over and says nothing inherently about them. thats probably better than "ok lemme just classify every single race i encounter and treat them all differently according to science"

@burnonedown2day 2 ай бұрын

🔥👊🔥

@JPBerkleeDude 2 ай бұрын

While I do agree in theory with what Mr. Hughes is saying, for example about the woke kindergarten, the children will grow up and find out that they are raced beings regardless of any kind of curriculum for example. To imply that is one of the only methods of imbuing the concept of race is short sighted in my opinion. I would love to be able to live in a world where people were truly color blind, but I am aware enough to see the the problems that the non-color blind world has put in place in the past.

@harrison1671 2 ай бұрын

Long story short, racism and sexism is bad. Reverse racism and sexism is still racism and sexism. This is common sense to me, but common sense isn't common.

@califomia 2 ай бұрын

If you want to hear a heavier interview, head to Sam Harris.

@SK-hj8ss 2 ай бұрын

Coleman not towing the line.

@horsepowerdude 2 ай бұрын

Not sure why people think his ideas are new. His ideas are about as mainstream as baseball and apple pie until critical race theory and woke kindergarten poisoned the waters.

@robertdouglas8895 2 ай бұрын

The way to not see physical characteristics as determiners of opinions is to forgive all of those people who actually never hurt you but you think they did.

@dcla6003 2 ай бұрын

How do you give a definition of race without mentioning the impact and historical context that the transatlantic slave trade had and continues to have on the social construction.

@beng4647 Ай бұрын

Time to grow up buddy. Im glad your parents protected you.

@llllldrijcsujhddghjkclllllllll 2 ай бұрын

This came off as privileged and entitled (I'm sick of these words, but it fits). "My childhood was diverse, everyone needs to rewind the clock and be raised the way I was." I do agree, that people raised in diverse, healthy, most of the population is middle class, those communities don't have a necessity to utilize hate crime preventing tools. I wish everyone could grow up like this, we'd save a lot of money. But this notion that he has, is the equivalent of billionaires throwing flies out of the window that say. "Stop being poor!"

@austinrhoads 2 ай бұрын

The fact that it comes off as privileged is his point. I've lived across the US and I've seen old vestiges of segregation where entire predominantly black communities are obviously underserved and underrepresented in government, where in major cities and suburbs black populations have more support in communities and universities. Therefore it seems to make more sense to serve those based on socioeconomics first instead of race.

@iboofer 2 ай бұрын

Not to mention it's kind of funny, because even if his friend group didn't see color as a major thing (and how would he know, honestly), their parents, families and social groups almost certainly did. Reminds me of one of my old friends throughout elementary and middle school who was genuinely such a big-hearted dude. But as he got older, he got racist. Peer pressure, negative interactions, probable family pressure....I never would have guessed he'd turn out the way he did based on the boy I knew back then.

@austinrhoads 2 ай бұрын

@@iboofer but not all people are like your childhood friend, and if some are so susceptible to influence wouldn't it make sense to educate children with a philosophy of 'colorblindness' as he says in the interview. My father was racist, at least at home, and I knew it was backwards thinking even as a little kid. I'm sure I have some biases I'm not aware of but I've never harbored hatred or believed that any race was inferior to my own. If it could lower the number of racist people by even a small percentage why wouldn't you want to educate children to see all people as people first?

@technolus5742 2 ай бұрын

@@austinrhoadsThere are a couple problems with the socio-economic approach: rich black people are also subrepresented, poor white people are not due reparation for the effects of Jim Crowe laws etc...

@austinrhoads 2 ай бұрын

@@technolus5742 right. I mean that should definitely be taken into account but if you want to make change it makes sense to start with the people hurting most right?

@thebroterioncollection851 2 ай бұрын

By lacking any background in the disciplines that generated these conversations (philosophy [metaphyscis, phenomenology], psychology, sociology, etc), he has no idea what he’s talking about and simply occupies the apologist space that favors contemporary white conservatism in the US. Feigns some weird objective positivism without being clear on the competing agendas that’s he’s serving. Always great when people live in their normative vacuum.

@skaaaaaaa 2 ай бұрын

Do you recognize that you employed an appeal to authority as the basis of your comment? I understand that is the sinplest way to engage with him, to relegate him to the lowly commoners who foolishly think themselves capable of philosophy.. I can't also help but notice your reference to "competing agendas". In your worldview do you reduce everyone and everything to a game-theoryesque elimination game? Perhaps you wokesters should look in the mirror and realize you have become the neobourgeois you purport to despise.. just food for thought.. All the best

@leggoentertainment2947 2 ай бұрын

This man is a white supremacists. Using the term "racism" instead of white supremacy in American context or Western context is usually a dead give away. It's disgusting to see him on big think, he's micro thinking if we could call it thinking at all.

@woopityscoop2863 2 ай бұрын

While I somewhat agree with his position, some of the context he’s talking about here seems a bit suspect…

@marie-joseekelly2602 2 ай бұрын

What context are you referring to?

@georgecasseus6893 2 ай бұрын

I can agree with him on color blindness policies that are focused on socio-economic factors. I want that. But it doesn't address the impact of racial bias by law enforcement or the systematic racism that affected these marginal groups in America.