The New York Times will be running a series of interviews with philosophers on race. Heres the first with Professor Naomi Zack, author of The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy I don’t know where the idea of “post-racial” America came from. It may have begun when minorities were encouraged to buy homes they could not afford so that bankers could bet against their ability to make their mortgage payments, before the real estate crash of 2007-08. It sounds like media hype to make black people feel more secure so that they will be more predictable consumers — if they can forget about the fact blacks are about four times as likely as whites to be in the criminal justice system. If America is going to become post-racial, it will be important to get the police on board with that.-Naomi Zack opinionator.blogs.nytimes/2014/11/05/what-white-privilege-really-means/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
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