Around 27 minutes in, Kendi's reasoning just becomes tortuous.
Who is the "we" here? Who decides the impact of every policy on one abstract identity group against the imagined interest of another? Who says: "This is in the Latino interest"; "This is in the black interest"?
Who is the "we" here? Who decides the impact of every policy on one abstract identity group against the imagined interest of another? Who says: "This is in the Latino interest"; "This is in the black interest"?
Then when Klein gently but somewhat insistently pushes about whether defunding the police is in the black interest or not, Kendi gives a series of convoluted and unsatisfying answers. Hard to believe such deliberation can work on every single law and policy going forward.
Finally, I suggest reading the transcript instead of listening to the interview. It really allows the logic to hit different.
This seems relevant here:
https://twitter.com/FreeBlckThought/status/1416423818097217536?s=20
I meant to expand on this point too: if the community isn't even of one mind about what to refer to themselves as, how can their be consensus about what is in their interest???
https://twitter.com/FormerlyCBM/status/1417100399899779072?s=20
This is all with an extremely informed but ultimately ingratiating interlocutor. I can't even imagine how the conversation would go with someone like @GlennLoury
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