Truth to Power | Bailey Thomas | A More Perfect Union: Race, Failure & Social Progress | 3-3-23

This public class, entitled "Towards a 'More Perfect Union': Race, Failure & Social Progress," was hosted by the Louisville Free Public Library in 2022, and features Dr. K. Bailey Thomas, assistant professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville. Dr. Thomas discusses how our fear of failure ultimately impedes collective efforts in working towards establishing a racially equitable society. Many people find discussions about race to be extremely fraught and divisive, which is usually expressed as a fear of “saying the wrong thing”. This discomfort that arises when thinking and talking about racial inequity and injustice, arises from a collective social failure to be sensitive and attentive to racial privilege and oppression.

See Dr. Thomas' slides at https://www.lfpl.org/mylibraryu/pptx/James%20Baldwin%20and%20Racial%20Progress%20Talk.pptx
Learn more and register for future library classes at https://www.lfpl.org/upcomingevents.htm

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