Talking About Talking About Race
How can we have better conversations about race? Author Baratunde Thurston offers some rules of thumb.
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Plus, author Baratunde Thurston joins us from the new Panoply podcast About Race. He’s the author of How to Be Black.
Guidelines for talking about race include:
- Assume good intentions, especially online.
- Shut up. Listen.
- Try to make it not just about yourself. “But I’ve never” isn’t a good argument. It’s about a bigger system.
For the Spiel, does it matter if our politicians are out of touch?
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