Why Liberals Make Everything About Race w/ Touré Reed | Jacobin Show

Touré Reed, author of Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, joins the show to discuss why elites have doubled down on identity and explains how we can combat race essentialism by understanding politics through a public-good framework. The Jacobin Show airs every Wednesday at 6 PM ET and offers a socialist perspective on class and capitalism in the twenty-first century, the failures of liberalism, and the prospects of rebuilding a left labor movement in the US. The hosts are Jen Pan, Ariella Thornhill, and Paul Prescod. Subscribe to the channel and press the like button! Subscribe to Jacobin for just $10: https://jacobinmag.com/subscribe/?cod... Music provided by Zonkey: https://linktr.ee/zonkey Patreon:   / jacobinmag   0:00 Class & Race? 6:42 COVID Racial Disparities 27:02 Black "Class Reductionists" 43:35 Touré Reed on Race Reductionist Politics