Episode 39 - RACE AND RACISM (PART 2 OF 3): THE PROBLEMS WITH NON-RACIALISM

Many South Africans love saying that we should aim at a
non-racial South Africa. But what does that mean? And is
'non-racialism' really the appropriate goal to formulate in
response to the legacies of colonialism and apartheid?


In this episode, Professor Lewis Gordon retrns, in the second of
our 3-part series on race and racism. (The first episode in the
3-part series is archived as episode 23 of In The Ring With
Eusebius McKaiser)


He argues that we should focus on anti-racism and not on
non-racialism. But it is in the details of his analysis in
support of this proposition that brilliant insights into the
nature of race and racism emerge, from one of the world's most
impressive living philosophers.