We Are in a Moral Panic: Coleman Hughes - Triggernometry
Coleman Hughes is a writer, contributing editor at City Journal and host of the podcast Conversations With Coleman.
EXCERPT from Video: "There's a little something called the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I don't remember a violent, a single violent thing that protesters did to achieve that. The riots we had in the 60s didn't really start in earnest until 1967. That was after the great civil rights legislative reforms. Martin Luther King's movement was a peaceful movement on purpose. The police were violent, but the whole point was that no matter how violent the police got the protesters would never get violent. And they would win over the hearts and minds of America by showing them how peaceful they were, how committed to their principles they were.... "
"... You know, progress usually doesn't come in the form of some sexy legislation that happens after you burn half of your country down. Actually, usually progress happens a little bit every day, and at the end of 20 years you say: "Holy shit! There are half as many black people in prison as there were in 2001, or, or young black men in this case.
"But, of course nobody pays attention to that, so they get the impression that nothing has changed..."
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Comment: Coleman Hughes was born in 1996. At the time of this writing he is only 24 years old, but I find him to be one of the most brilliantly reasonable, honest, calm and nuanced of thinkers that you will find in my "Black Thinkers Matter" list. I'm deeply impressed by this young man.
Coleman Hughes is a writer, contributing editor at City Journal and host of the podcast Conversations With Coleman.
EXCERPT from Video: "There's a little something called the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I don't remember a violent, a single violent thing that protesters did to achieve that. The riots we had in the 60s didn't really start in earnest until 1967. That was after the great civil rights legislative reforms. Martin Luther King's movement was a peaceful movement on purpose. The police were violent, but the whole point was that no matter how violent the police got the protesters would never get violent. And they would win over the hearts and minds of America by showing them how peaceful they were, how committed to their principles they were.... "
"... You know, progress usually doesn't come in the form of some sexy legislation that happens after you burn half of your country down. Actually, usually progress happens a little bit every day, and at the end of 20 years you say: "Holy shit! There are half as many black people in prison as there were in 2001, or, or young black men in this case.
"But, of course nobody pays attention to that, so they get the impression that nothing has changed..."
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Comment: Coleman Hughes was born in 1996. At the time of this writing he is only 24 years old, but I find him to be one of the most brilliantly reasonable, honest, calm and nuanced of thinkers that you will find in my "Black Thinkers Matter" list. I'm deeply impressed by this young man.
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