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Race, Racism, and White Privilege in America
2013 Media Education Foundation | 1 White LIKE ME Race, Racism, and White Privilege in America [transcript] INTRODUCTION Tim Wise: When it comes to race, we ve overcome quite a lot in this country. Slavery. Civil War. Segregation. We ve even elected a black man to the highest office in the land. But as tempting as it might be to celebrate these things as signs we ve entered into a period of color-blind, post-racial [VIDEO CLIP] CNN Pundit: We have to admit that we re moving forward in this world and that race issues are moving to the periphery. Robert Byrd: I think those problems are largely behind us. Wise: The fact is that racial inequalities still [INTERVIEW] Michelle Alexander: Today there are more African Americans in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.
investing in companies that did business with the racist government of apartheid South Africa. [VIDEO CLIP] News Anchor: These university students want their school to get rid of its investments in stocks of companies that do business in South Africa, to divest. It’s become a rallying cry on campuses all across the country.
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