{"id":2247898,"date":"2024-05-19T10:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coleman-hughes-joins-ben-shapiro-to-discuss-how-leftists-abandoned-mlks-desire-for-a-colorblind-society-to-push-race-based-policies-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T10:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:58:57","slug":"coleman-hughes-joins-ben-shapiro-to-discuss-how-leftists-abandoned-mlks-desire-for-a-colorblind-society-to-push-race-based-policies-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coleman-hughes-joins-ben-shapiro-to-discuss-how-leftists-abandoned-mlks-desire-for-a-colorblind-society-to-push-race-based-policies-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman Hughes and Ben Shapiro talk about how the Left has moved away from MLK&#8217;s dream of a colorblind society to promote race-based policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoleman-hughes-joins-ben-shapiro-to-discuss-how-leftists-abandoned-mlks-desire-for-a-colorblind-society-to-push-race-based-policies-everywhere%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247898&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Coleman Hughes, a Columbia\u200d University graduate and host of the \u201cConversations with Coleman\u201d podcast, discussed his book, \u200c\u201cThe End of\u2063 Race \u200bPolitics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,\u201d with Ben Shapiro on the \u201cSunday \u2064Special.\u201d Hughes highlighted how liberals have shifted from MLK&#8217;s colorblind vision to advocating race-based \u2063policies. His stance against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mellon-foundation-shells-out-72-million-in-anti-racist-curriculum-grants\/\" title=\"Mellon Foundation Shells Out  Million In \u2018Anti-Racist\u2019 Curriculum Grants\">racial reparations<\/a> was a\u2062 key \u2064point in their conversation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Coleman Hughes, a Columbia University grad and host of the \u201cConversations with Coleman\u201d podcast, joined Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on the \u201cSunday Special\u201d this week to discuss his new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/End-Race-Politics-Arguments-Colorblind\/dp\/0593332458\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">book<\/a>, \u201cThe End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hughes, who has also testified before Congress warning against pursuing racial reparations, told Shapiro that liberals who were largely behind Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s argument for a colorblind society have \u201cabandoned\u201d that idea to pursue race-based policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left\u2019s argument for most of my childhood and most of my teenage years with regard to race was the old MLK argument, which is that you were supposed to see people as individuals without reference primarily to their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-school-district-announces-policy-to-push-anti-racist-thinking-in-preschool-redefine-discrimination-and-racism\/\" title=\"Maryland School District Announces Policy to Push \u2018Anti-Racist Thinking\u2019 In Preschool, Redefine \u2018Discrimination\u2019 and \u2018Racism\u2019\">racial group<\/a>,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then it seems like the Left has shifted away from that MLK message and now has embraced much more racial politics as a mechanism for electoral and political success. So when you talk a little bit about [colorblindness], why do you think it is that this has now become more associated with \u2018the Right,\u2019 even though it was never historically a Right-wing argument?\u201d the Daily Wire host asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, my childhood mirrored yours in that sense,\u201d Hughes replied. \u201cI grew up in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pinkerton-a-left-wing-citys-refusal-to-honor-veterans-day-reminds-us-that-patriotism-must-be-taught\/\" title=\"Pinkerton: A Left-Wing City\u2019s Refusal to Honor Veterans Day Reminds Us That Patriotism Must Be Taught\">liberal town<\/a>. I think I met one Republican my whole life as a kid, and everyone took for granted that Martin Luther King\u2019s famous speech and his now cliched phrase, \u2018Judge people by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.\u2019 Everyone took that for granted as the obvious way to think about race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/not-everything-is-about-race-coleman-hughes-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH \u2018THE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW SUNDAY SPECIAL\u2019 WITH COLEMAN HUGHES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The author added that Dr. King\u2019s argument that was taken for granted was first abandoned during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">race riots<\/a> in the late 1960s and 1970s and then again during the George Floyd riots of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always been a fringe among academics, elite intellectuals. The Critical Race Theory fringe, which since the \u201870s and \u201880s, has said that \u2018actually the civil rights movement was wrong. They didn\u2019t go far enough. And we have to think about race all the time. American society is fundamentally racist.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hughes added that \u201cliberals abandoned this idea [colorblindness] during the race riots, very similar to what happened during George Floyd, where you had every politician trying to outdo the other to show how much they cared about racism and implementing race-based policies everywhere from, you know, Microsoft to like a local town ordinance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia University graduate and podcast host, Coleman Hughes, appeared on the \u201cSunday Special\u201d with Ben Shapiro. 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