Hughes: Using public policy to undo slavery's legacy creates new discrimination
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Author Coleman Hughes discusses public policy and historical racial injustice with Joe Lonsdale on American Optimist.
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“However, I think there's an attempt there's a desire by some to use the levers of public policy to undo the effects of slavery. And this is a dangerous fantasy. I think people have the idea that you know, everything that Whatever you include under the legacy of slavery category, this can all be undone by means of public policy today. That creates new people to discriminate against, new people to discriminate in favor of this quixotic fantasy of somehow undoing the legacy of a massive, you know, hundreds of years of history. This is this is a grave mistake, I think, that people people have fallen into.”
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