So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
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I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.
A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.
Statistics show that diversity in the media is pretty dismal. Critical voices from women and people of color are missing from many important conversations.
I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.
There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.
Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.
Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
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