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The End of Race Politics

Arguments for a Colorblind America

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The End of Race Politics

Auteur(s): Coleman Hughes
Narrateur(s): Coleman Hughes
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An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.

As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents–who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer.

Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary listening for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public.

Through careful argument, Hughes dismantles harmful beliefs about race, proving that reverse racism will not atone for past wrongs and showing why race-based policies will lead only to the illusion of racial equity. By fixating on race, we lose sight of what it really means to be anti-racist. A racially just, colorblind society is possible. Hughes gives us the intellectual tools to make it happen.

* This audiobook edition contains a downloadable PDF of key graphs, charts, and other visual aids from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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“When I started writing on race twenty-five years ago, I hoped young people would read me and be assured that being melodramatic, tribal, and pessimistic on race issues is not higher wisdom. Coleman Hughes is exactly what I hoped would happen, and this book is spun gold from start to finish.” –JOHN McWHORTER, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University and New York Times bestselling author of Woke Racism

“Humans have dignity and rights because of their ability to flourish and suffer, not their pigmentation. The affirmation of that moral principle here is humane, judicious, eloquent, and timely.”–STEVEN PINKER, professor at Harvard University and author of Enlightenment Now

“With unusual clarity, [Hughes] offers not merely a damning critique of all the ways the all-American skin game has failed us—he provides a compelling, positive vision of the heights we could reach together were we to finally stop playing.” –THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS, author of Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race
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Coleman Hughes is the voice we need more of in the West to stop us from imploding from our misdirected self-flagellation.

Watertight argument for real race solutions

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Coleman‘s book reinvigorates and emphasizes all the good and hard work it took to get where we are today and provides the motivation to continue this effort. Coleman‘s message, and the way he conducts himself is a perfect mixture to maximize his effectiveness, saliency and importance. 

Coleman is one of the most important up and coming thinkers and philosophers of our time

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Excellent critical analysis on what's gone wrong in western culture and the religious like fever around certain ideologies. Coleman's book should be read along side any book that claims Anti Racism ideology.

Growing up in a diverse community and school system Coleman's view on race neutrality is completely accurate. Skin color is an insignificant trait when one's community is broadly diverse.

Exposure to and the normalization of different people is key to living in a society where race does not matter.

Refreshing and Real

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Hughes doesn't waste time, but instead gets right to the heart of issues. He describes the origins and outcomes of modern race policies, and explains in detail how they are failing - both in terms of the misguided underlying philosophy, and the counterproductive results. A valuable primer for countering the current race-obsessed perspective ascending in Western culture.

Succinct With Clear Examples

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Short, precise, and to the point. Compelling arguments against current orthodoxies. Addresses point by point the talking points of DEI and affirmative action advocates

Spot on

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Agree or disagree with the premiss Hughes makes a compelling and thoughtful argument in favor of colorblindness. It is a masterclass in how to present and argue and it should be required reading. By placing colorblindness in both it's historical and modern context Hughes gives the reader more than just his argument but all the information they need to come to their own conclusion. He gives the counter position it's fair due by doing his best to steal-man the modern "anti-racist" ideology and not just focus on criticizing or devolving into ad hominem of it's proponents.

I'm a GenX'er so for me personally I didn't need to be convinced that colorblindness has always been the best way to improve race relations, our generation live(d) it and we know it's both logical and morally correct. Coleman Hughes has just re-proved the argument and given those of us less eloquent another tool to spread the colorblind solution to this new and a bit confused generation.

Agree or disagree it's a must read

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I've listened twice, and on my third time - a sound and thorough dissection of one of the defining issues of our time. Mr. Hughes for President! An incredible young mind and communicator. Highly recommended for teens and older.

A well presented, highly accessible must read.

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Mr. Hughes did a great job. I really appreciate how he explained very clearly that it is the person that matters not the color of someone’s skin. I believe that Martin Luther King had it right and Mr. Hughes is a clear voice in a mess of noise.

Excellent!

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While the ideas and examples are not necessarily original, they are well organized, often steelmanning the propositions of the “neo-racists”.

Cogent arguments against racial discrimination in all its forms

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After hearing Coleman Hughes on a couple of podcasts, I was eager to listen to this and hear him expand on his case for colourblind politics. To be clear up front, I agree with his core thesis and I believe that people like Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendhi are not only themselves racists, but grifters who don't actually want racism to end, because it existing and "not improving" is how they sustain their business models.

That said, this book makes good points in a weak and bland way and reads like a series of blog posts, rather than a well thought out dissertation. Most of it is spend taking apart the models and arguments of people like DiAngelo and Kendhi, who Hughes refers to as "neoracists". While I was nodding along with everything he said in that vein, he offers few solutions, only a handful of vague suggestions in the last chapter, with no details provided on how to implement them, nor does he actually paint what colourblind politics really looks like, instead spending the majority of the short run time monotonely explaining how the other side has it wrong instead of how he has it right. I think he DOES have it right, but you have to make a compelling case that persuades people, not just point out the thinly-veiled bigotry of the opposition, acting as if the listener will just go "Oh of course!" He also puts the late Dr. Martin Luther King to WORK, using quote after quote after quote of his as a lazy scaffold to his argument, often using the same ones multiple times in different parts of the book.

Again, I agree with every point Hughes is making here and I'm glad this book exists and that he's undertaking the brave move of standing up to these well-entrenched and supported neoracist grifters. But you can do that in a Substack. If you're going to make the case for colorblind politics, you have to spend more than half a chapter you know, actually doing that, rather than just pointing and going "neoracists bad!" I hope this can be the kindling that fires up other authors, who can make better written arguments.

This could have been a Substack

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