Africa/ United States: "Demographics is Destiny" - Black in America
A riveting conversation on race and Black underachievement in America btw American Prospect's Adam Serwer, who comes down on the side of social systemics and the need of some government intervention, and Penn Law' Amy Wax, who sits in the Bill Cosby chair and says, "it's also the culture, stupid." Excerpt above tackles representation and what Wax argues is the tendency of the media to avoid tackling the hard black questions, but she then looses points for having written a book on this but never never saw the TV event - CNN's Black in America 1 & 2. Below, she makes a strong case against determinism:
Like someone once said, "being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet."