White Moral Blindness - Prof. Meena Krishnamurthy (EMU Philosophy Speaker Series, Thursday, January 26, 2017) from information about dr luther king Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 54 min 13 sec
✓ Published: 31-Jan-2017

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White Moral Blindness and the Importance of Experiencing Racial OppressionnnDESCRIPTIONnnMartin Luther King Jr. was confident in his conviction that white moderates would not act to end racial oppression. He held that moral blindness was the reason. The white moderates didn’t know the needs of the racially oppressed. They also didn’t know what it was like to be racially oppressed. On his view, knowledge of what it is like to be racially oppressed is both essential to knowing that immediate a