Randall Kennedy
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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millions of white people, and now this is coming home to roost.
So I think my father would have absolutely said in 2016, I told you so.
Yeah, I want to be careful here, and I don't want to
Don't give up on the optimist camp.
I don't.
You're right.
I don't want to give up on the optimist camp.
I don't.
My optimism has definitely been dampened.
It has definitely been tested.
I am certainly not as triumphalist as I once was.
I am not as indignant as I once was in my criticism of pessimists.
But at this moment, as we speak, you know, am I more in the optimist camp than I'm in the pessimistic camp?
I'm still probably more in the optimist camp.
My optimism has been dampened.
But as I speak...
I have to say the following things.
And I'd say the following things if my father, but again, whom I revere, great man.
But if my father was sitting here with us, I would say, listen, Pop, it's absolutely true that the country is more racist than I had thought.
That is true.