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SUMMARY:Overcoming White Blindness
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LOCATION:1151 Richmond Street\, London\, Canada
DESCRIPTION:<p>The political inaction of the white moderates was a constant concern for black civil rights activists in the United&nbsp\;States. According to black &ldquo\;intellectualists&rdquo\;\, such as Ida B. Wells\, individuals fail to engage in political action to end racism&nbsp\;because they lack propositional moral knowledge that an action\, such as lynching\, is morally wrong. In contrast\, black&nbsp\;&ldquo\;emotionalists\,&rdquo\; such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Frederick Douglass\, held that political inaction occurs when individuals lack the&nbsp\;right sorts of emotions and desires. I argue that Martin Luther King\, Jr. offered a position that differed from what black thinkers&nbsp\;standardly offered as a model of how political motivation works. King believed the white moderates failed to engage in political&nbsp\;action because they lacked phenomenal moral knowledge &ndash\; knowledge of what it is like to be victimized by a particular wrong&nbsp\;such as racial segregation. King believed that\, without this knowledge\, the right sorts of emotions and desires were unlikely to&nbsp\;be activated. I close by arguing that the white moderates can (partially) acquire this type of knowledge through democratic&nbsp\;propaganda and disruptive protest.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn McLeod:
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