The Equiano Project: Speeches by McWhorter and Loury
On January 12th-13th 2023, the London-based Equiano Project, Emmanuel College, and King's College, Cambridge hosted a panel on the topic, “Towards the Common Good: Rethinking Race in the 21st Century conference.” Two powerful speeches were delivered by FAIR Advisors Glenn Loury and John McWhorter (speech links below).
The conference’s goals were to “bring together those who believe in promoting equality and improving ethnic minority people’s lives, to explore the extent to which anti-racism today aligns with or departs from previous eras, and examine whether liberal values can continue to inform solutions to these questions.”:
The panelists’ task was “to explore the nature of racial inequality and the extent to which different approaches can successfully address it” keeping in mind a “growing awareness of the need to rethink racial politics and develop a realistic and constructive narrative” which is “of central importance to liberal democracy – how we balance the hard-earned universal freedoms embodied in liberal democracy, with the need to acknowledge and integrate the rich cultural identities that ethnic minority and immigrant groups have brought to the UK.”
About The Equiano Project, which is FAIR-affiliated
Edited version Loury’s Speech (Unherd, 1/30/23)
