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Alexander Scipio's avatar

It’s always fascinating to watch these videos. A similar one from, I think, The View (?) was circulating yesterday. In all of them the white interrogator constantly interrupts the black person he’s questioning. It’s almost as though they don’t believe the black person is worthy of common courtesy, his own viewpoint, being allowed to answer the question asked, etc. If these interrogators really believed the black person to be his equal, he’d not treat him like this

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Eli, you and your father are doing great work in this unfolding discussion. Your documentary on Michael Brown should be mandatory for anyone struggling with these issues in the aftermath of George Floyd. We need to stop depriving blacks, especially, of personal responsibility and agency. And we need to be mindful, as Glenn Loury points out, that it is foolish to expect racial groups to lift each other up.

Americans are doing their best to show the world what a melting pot looks like. Our citizens can become less focused on condemnation if they are given a broader set of opinions. Like those of the Steele family.

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