Piers Morgan: Coleman Hughes: 'I Don't See Myself As Any Kind Of Race Traitor'

Source:Piers Morgan Uncensored talking to conservative writer Coleman Hughes.

"Piers Morgan Uncensored is joined by one of the world's most incisive commentators, Coleman Hughes, to talk about the controversy his theories on race have created in the black community.

Accused of being radical and even racist, Coleman joins Piers Morgan to explain why he thinks the world should be 'colour blind' and more." 

From Piers Morgan Uncensored

"An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.

As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents–who lived through segregation. The End of Race Politics is the culmination of his years-long search for an answer.

Contemplative yet audacious, The End of Race Politics is necessary reading for anyone who questions the race orthodoxies of our time. Hughes argues for a return to the ideals that inspired the American Civil Rights movement, showing how our departure from the colorblind ideal has ushered in a new era of fear, paranoia, and resentment marked by draconian interpersonal etiquette, failed corporate diversity and inclusion efforts, and poisonous race-based policies that hurt the very people they intend to help. Hughes exposes the harmful side effects of Kendi-DiAngelo style antiracism, from programs that distribute emergency aid on the basis of race to revisionist versions of American history that hide the truth from the public.

Through careful argument, Hughes dismantles harmful beliefs about race, proving that reverse racism will not atone for past wrongs and showing why race-based policies will lead only to the illusion of racial equity. By fixating on race, we lose sight of what it really means to be anti-racist. A racially just, colorblind society is possible. Hughes gives us the intellectual tools to make it happen." 

From Amazon

What I wrote about the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action back in June, 2023: 

"If the Equal Protection Clause, equality, equal justice, equal rights, if every American regardless of racial, ethnic, gender, has the same individual rights and responsibilities as everyone else, then affirmative action had to be thrown out, because it violates all of those great, American, liberal values, that most Americans believe in, but too many of take for granted.

I understand the importance of building a society where everyone can succeed. Not only do I understand that, but I actually believe in that as a Liberal. (Meaning real Liberal) But you don’t create that free society for everybody by denying people access in America, like with education, simply because too many members of their race or ethnicity, are already doing well in America.

What a lot of supporters of so-called affirmative action laws have never understood, is that affirmative action just doesn’t hurt European-Americans, especially European-American men, (which affirmative action supporters don’t seem to have a problem with) but it hurts Asian-Americans as well, it hurts Latino-Americans who are primarily of Spanish or other European descent, it hurts Middle Eastern-Americans, it hurts Jewish-Americans. Why? Because these folks are already doing well in America and aren’t from the right racial or ethnic background, according to supporters of affirmative action." 

From The New Democrat

I haven't read Coleman Hughes book, yet, but based on this interview with Piers Morgan and what he's saying here, I completely agree with him as a Liberal. (Meaning someone who believes in liberal democracy, not total equality at all costs) 

We would literally have to be physically blind to ever have a totally, colorblind, or race blind, or ethnic blind country. I see race, ethnicity, and color, in every person I've ever seen, as well as when I look in the mirror. But as Coleman Hughes said, that's not the point. 

What people like myself and others believe when we're talking about a non-racial and non-ethnic America, has to do with law and how we treat each others as human beings. Not to act like we don't see European, African, American-Indian, Middle Eastern-American, or Asian-Americans. But that we instead look and treat each other as human beings, as individuals. Instead of treating each other as members of teams or groups. 

The only team that each of us as American citizens should be cheering for and promoting when it comes to America, is America itself as one country. Not our particular race or ethnicity.

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