Results tagged “racism” from JoeWindish.com

Via Jezebel. Full-length video of the panel. Juston Vogt comments.

Thanks Jessica!

More in his essay. An excerpt:

White privilege is when you can claim that being mayor of a town smaller than most medium-sized colleges, and then Governor of a state with about the same number of people as the lower fifth of the island of Manhattan, makes you ready to potentially be president, and people don't all piss on themselves with laughter, while being a black U.S. Senator, two-term state Senator, and constitutional law scholar, means you're "untested."

From Race and Politics in America: Where Are We in 2008? at Aspen Institute's Idea Festival. Recorded on July 1. Full program here. Ta-Nehisi Coates moderates and blogs about it here with links to blogosphere discussion of it.