Andrew Yang - Racial Color Blindness: The Best Way Forward

[@hotpajama8949]

Go Yang! Go Coleman! Thank you for fighting for sanity!!

[@sobersherpa]

Ye sir

[@maxrockatansky2003]

Coleman, the voice of reason as usual.

[@lennysmith8851]

Love you Coleman! As a secular humanist, atheist, and black man i agree with you on so many levels. Thanks for all the work you do. It is important. And unity is the only way forward!

[@lovebaileymarin]

I could listen to Coleman talk about this forever.

[@faithwalker131]

Really appreciate listening to you two together! Thank you so much 🙏

[@Broxin7]

These two blokes are right on point. Glad I watched this.

[@sharinawatkins6739]

man, i remember when this exact sentiment was criticized as part of the problem during the BLM saga of 2020. great episode. i love what you do, Coleman.

[@evedotcom]

So refreshing to hear this. Could not agree with you more, Coleman.

[@basicforge]

Thanks Andrew. I never imagined that people would call color blindness evil. Of course we see that other people look different, automatically in fact. However, color blindness (to me) means that I willfully choose to value the other person not based on race or ethnicity but on what really matters, which is the value of a human being.

[@evans8488]

How is it possible that this only has a few hundred views after nearly an hour on a channel with a hundred-thousand subscribers?

[@EllenPitts]

Because as amazing as Coleman Hughes is, the KZbin algorithm is designed to push out videos that have the best click through rates. There are many classes on how to make thumbnails and titles that get the best click through rates.

[@hotwax9376]

I have newfound respect for Andrew Yang. While I still think some of his ideas are out there, I'm glad he's taking a stand against identity politics, just as he took a stand against defunding the NYPD when he ran for NYC mayor last year. Hope he keeps fighting against the woke Marxist mob trying to take over the Democratic party and our country.

[@roggr679]

At first take a lot of Yang's ideas seem out there. That was my first impression of many of his ideas. But after deep diving most of his ideas now seem to me to be wise and well thought out.

[@vondoromal7016]

Those somewhat "radical" ideas should be mainstream. Racism, culture and ideologies are all irrelevant when you can't put food on the table...

[@plutotech]

define "woke"?

[@davidmerfeld1779]

What a wonderful assessment of "tribalism". It can be a force for good, without being harmful. In 2015, my wife and I began caring for a refugee family. They lived with us for a year and a half, and remain friends. We hosted them **in our home** for exactly the reason Coleman says: because they were persecuted for being Jews, and we are Jews. Last year, we began the sponsorship of an Afghan refugee family, helping them find an apartment and jobs, and getting the daughter into college. While we have provided them with lots of help, we did not invite them into our home.

[@garyjohnson8327]

Also being registered with the Creek and Cherokee nations I think of tribalism as a good thing

[@tinymutantsquid]

@@garyjohnson8327 How's life on the res lately?

[@mimo5853]

Coleman just makes so much sense.

[@et_cetera_]

If you want to know how to transcend the cultural race storm, this is it. I'm really grateful to Coleman for carrying this torch while so many others complicate this subject into catastrophy.

[@brianm9331]

The tricky part about color blindness is it could make you blind to actions that AREN'T color blind. Ideally we shouldn't make actions based on color but should also be able to call out other people who DO make negative actions people DO make based on color.

[@jeffm.5071]

I think it’s more a prescription for how to go about organizing a society generally and how to interact and treat everyone well. I don’t think anyone is advocating for allowing blatant racism, well I certainly hope so at least.

[@jackdeniston6150]

and maybe be aware of misattribution.

[@aperson_1852]

Great conversation! Thanks for sharing

[@AANasseh]

Coleman is correct as usual. We’ve gone off course from MLK and the 60’s definitions. We did well in the 90’s with secular humanism.. but went off course in 2010!

[@SeleckPlays]

To Andrew's point about racism that appears to be systematic, I still think a better representation of that data is region and economic status, not race. In other words, there are some zip codes that have poor underprivileged people that need to have economic boosts (jobs, education, grants, just money in general) that would greatly impact poor black people. But it would also impact the poor asian, white, hispanic, and others too! Race is just a poor proxy for both identifying and solving multi-generational economic problems.

[@meropemerope6096]

Race is just non-existent and stop. Next step for these two fine men should be starting to debunk the idea, that humans still have, that human races exist.

[@JohnSmith-hs1hn]

Nah, you're conflating race and class. The two are not mutually exclusive. But, hey., cite your study.

[@stanleycross6000]

The Ostrich Theory...Ignoring a cancer is indeed a cure.

[@karenaenlle8107]

Love you both!!

[@Pengalen]

It's irritating for Yang to trot out statistics like "the average black household has 10% the net worth of the average white household." An average is probably the least meaningful statistic to accurately portray such a point. Up until a decade ago (give or take), there were more poor white people than there were total black people in the US. The fact that a few dozen/hundred people own the vast majority of the wealth in the nation, and most of those people are white, skews that average upward, but it doesn't make the rest of the white people any richer.

[@vondoromal7016]

YangGang baby. UBI is the way! We can do better to look out for our neighbors...

[@ennuiblu]

"Humanity First" makes me think Andrew Yang might actually be Lex Luthor.

[@jhonklan3794]

why?

[@ForeverYoungKickboxer]

Wish we could tech this to the kids insted of race essentialisml. And teach slavery as a horrible thing common to all human civilizations. So then when everyone looks at slavery as a Human thing, everyone can feel bad about it. Then take what Gen X already learned cause our teachers went through the Civil Rights, add in the things that we missed. To correct the things that sneakily stayed in and unknowingly persist. It will be much easier to recognize how we need to rectify the structural stuff and watch out for the pitfalls we will fall into as Humans. If we could get the focus away from "critical race theory" which divides us. You can talk about remnants of systemic issues and fixing them and it won't be divisive. There will be much more buy in from everyone. Just think if for a whole generation we changed the messages: media, music, movie, mentors, everywhere just talked up the positive outlook for educated young people, of all colors, and didn't tell them that the entire world was against them, that White Supremacist police are going to hunt them down and most White people won't care. Gen X metalhead here. We had racism on the ropes, but it will never end. In-group preference and all of that human type stuff. We grew up right after the Civil rights movement. Our teachers taught us. So we laughed at racist jokes about others and ourselves but regarded racist people as fools stuck in the horrible past we were lucky to be born after. In the 90s if you were against racism it just meant you were a regular person. The person making the hard-core racist jokes usually got the hint nobody was laughing with him. Occasionally he got knocked out. Go look up Anthrax and Public Enemy onstage together. Too much togetherness isn't good for those at the top sticking it to us. So, Division became the game once again. After 1996 the Telecommunications Act, they had it much easier to keep the division going. Politicians been playing that game since forever but it takes you growing up and seeing enough of it. It's why when we are young all of our energy is quite useful to the manipulative mfers. In the 80s I saw the TV lie about Dungeons and Dragons, telling my parents it would make me a devil-worshipper. And then the TV and government told my parents Judas Priest and Ozzy put subliminal messages in their songs to make me commit suicide. Look up Gelman Amnesia. Internet at first was wild wild west and free....stopped their total control but slowly they have been taking that back. Maybe Elons move will slow that down. Don't let the TV, tablet, phone, or Teachers make you hate your neighbor. Keep thinking and keep talking to one another, people!

[@sobersherpa]

All that matters is the behavior of individual people. Behavior of each individual human on this planet has nothing to do with skin color. The End.

[@Sal3600]

Coleman sounds so much like Sam Harris!

[@sandybeaman]

Love these guys. Tribalism is hardwired into humans, imo, and not confined to race. Next time someone is going on about their favorite sport, ask them if they would watch any team play, just for the beauty of the sport or do they care which team wins. If they care, its because the team players are the proxy warriors for their village, now a city. As Coleman and Andrew allude, its ok to be aware of differences, as long as we don't act on them in a negative way. Part of making tribalism a positive thing is by expanding our definition of tribe. The ultimate tribe for our species is all humanity. A waypoint towards that goal is our country. And even then we're falling short of treating other organisms with respect (as I order my crispy chicken dinner).

[@barryon8706]

Couldn't agree more. If anyone thinks Xs are inferior somehow (whatever X they want to pick; race, sex, hair color, innie or outie), treating everybody by their individual actions will sort that out automatically.

[@chrislloyd5415]

I am wondering why Coleman was not running for President last time. Too young by about 12 years I guess. I look forward to 2032.

[@mohamedgoldstein5565]

Its getting less and less so, but for a long time race, culture and ethics(local) had a high correlation.

[@haroldbrown893]

So what about Native Americans and tribal rights

[@vondoromal7016]

The Filipino tribalism works well especially when Overseas Filipino Workers are prevalent all over the world. A Filipino will be there If you can work there. The best thing that Filipino's do is welcome other race and culture to demonstrate it's race and culture. Altruism is better when a demographic is welcoming than not ..

[@AstroSquid]

I think people can be blind to their tribalism. They simply think they are on the right side and don't think beyond that. So I would call it tribal-blindness, and those people are the most tribal.

[@kahnerr35]

Hughes for President 2024... 2028?

[@lathangravelle7693]

me too!

[@RionLyle]

I still don’t understand what “Race” is. People have different physical features. Is that was race is?

[@Californiansurfer]

Californian lived my whole life. 2016 to 2018. I worked in Jeffersonvill Indiana, Shepardvill Kentucky and elkhart Indiana. i remember getting off plan at Louisville Kentucky and no one would offer me service, starbucks, taxi, restaurants The police pulled me over 24/7 driving at night. The police had gun pointed at me three times, I was called , I thought you were black. Damn. Yes racism is alive and well.. today, I refuse to work in Midwest.. California my asian brothers and others, we must stay away… its the culture ….

[@justmyopinion9883]

We will never have a colorblind society. This country wasn’t founded as a colorblind society.

[@ItsameAlex]

Hi

[@greencraig8570]

Nikole Hannah Jones has been so snide and dismissive of Hughes in the past, but I seriously don't think she could handle him in a debate or conversation.

[@ericwinters1513]

Wasn't Yang outed as a grifter over the last few years?

[@buddhadrome]

No

[@use1kcf]

Yangs wrong, the opportunity is the same for all colors, in California in some ways it’s slanted in favor of black and Latino. It’s outcomes that are not equal.

[@garyjohnson8327]

GD MFrs you're throwing around the word tribalism and still ignore Natives.

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

How about dropping the idea that the government solves problems.

[@evan5604]

And some would say conflating “tribalism” which is generally a very negative term pertaining to how pretty much all people from the most primitive times divided up everyone into “us” or “them” with First Nations tribal affiliation would hardly be a compliment. This is less than twelve minute clip about the incredibly divisive, reductive, flattening essentialization of race being pushed more and more on the left - which fits under that first, negative kind of tribalism. You make a very fair point that the US is hardly just black and white. Though, yes, that’s the main divide identitarians on both the left and right are trying to push us into. A lot of significant American minority groups were not addressed specifically. Sincere question, as I’d like to learn something from your point of view: what would you like to hear Hughes and Yang and others discuss re: First Nations/Native Americans?

[@garyjohnson8327]

@@edwinamendelssohn5129 I think CCC, rural electrification, gi bill, ss and meat inspection were all pretty good

[@edwinamendelssohn5129]

@@garyjohnson8327 all could be state and local except GI bill

[@garyjohnson8327]

@@evan5604 these two, especially Hughes, are a couple of my favorite social commentators. And it's refreshing to not hear the constant and reductive race baiting one hears from the two "tribes". Actually being tribal, that is a citizen of a tribe,means extended family, tradition, history, obligation and community. The best definitions of those words. I'm surly to be sure. From the 1619 project to the 1776 rebuttal Natives are left out of the conversation. Especially ironic as the Madisonian model of representative democracy was patterned after the Iroquois confederacy and the recognition of the fledgling American government was legitimized, in Europes view, thru its recognition by Indigenous Nations via treaties, etc. So... when we talk about intergenerational poverty stemming from government misconduct, police abuses, governmental malfeasance, original sins,under/misrepresentation in the media, etc. It'd be nice to get invited to the conversation. I approve of the spirit but not the practicality of this conversation. I recognize the importance of taking people as individuals concerning character and merit. However I would not refer to a Black person as boy, or an Asian person as sneaky and not be aware of the historical weight inherent to such a comment.