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Richard Thompson Ford: The Race Card

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jom5887
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Posted: 10.10.08, 04:15 AM
Very nice clip of an off-the-rails discussion. Ford does an excellent job of reconceptualizing "the race card" in a compelling way, and deflating a lot of the audience members' obvious conflation of the act of playing the race card and simply expressing prejudiced views.

Unfortunately, many members of the audience used the Q&A time to just speak about various issues involving racism or unsubtly imply that Ford wanted to muffle discussion of racism (except well, he's written a book about it).

Milloy was something of an unsettling distraction as the moderator. He didn't allow Ford much room to fully flesh out the premise of his book, instead dully challenging him to agree this or that, over and over. He also wrested the answer portion from Ford somewhat in responding to audience questions himself, unnecessarily clouding the discussion.
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