What is the state of racial justice?

The Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at the Ash Center in conjunction with the IOP wants to critically examine a year of promises of institutional antiracist change and how a more truthful teaching of American history can lead to social transformation. What has been done? What is the real impact and what work should we be doing?

Speakers:

Professor Ibram Kendi
Director, Center for Antiracist Research
Boston University

Heather McGhee
Political Commentator & Strategist

Professor Khalil Muhammad
Director, Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project
Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

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[nirad]

Reason why American academia is taken less seriously than ever is precisely the repudiation of the boogeyman that is the Enlightenment. It's an euphemism for the scientific method, the only objective one, which dares to ask even the most difficult questions. What these people are advocating for is an all-encompasing structural doctrine, a black and white lense through which one is supposed to value everything from laws to science.
The one who fears the difficult question less akin to a scientist and more akin to a climate change denier, who just outright refuses something based on subjective opinion. It's just veiled under the mask of fighting some super massive conspiracy called "racism" here. Everything can be racist, even the scientific method, if it doesn't suit your interest. Except I don't believe people like this, or climate change deniers will win; else we are coming down to another age of darkness.

[MidnightRambler]

It's fluid. It never ends. It's. Grift