Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Has crying “racism” become the new version of crying “wolf”? Kwame Kilpatrick, the African-American mayor of Detroit, says he’s the victim of media “lynching” after a sex-scandal. Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for vice president, says she’s the victim of character assassination, after she was accused of using “racist” language to describe Barack Obama. We look at how race becomes political, and the dangers of playing the race card.
Guests
- Michelle Bernard President, Independent Women's Voice
- Ta-Nehisi Coates Freelance journalist; author "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood" (forthcoming) (Spiegel & Grau)
- Richard Thompson Ford Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; author "The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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