Winning The Culture War on Race

Steven Barnes
2 min readFeb 23, 2022

I really do love that “Question” to detect racism: “under the same historical circumstances, would whites have been as damaged by slavery, or taken as long to recover?”

It has NEVER failed me. If the respondent is honest, I get their attitude on equality. If they lie, they are in the impossible circumstance of having to justify everything they said in the past and everything they say in the future in relation to their stated position. I don’t believe it is possible. The really fun thing is when I KNOW someone’s position, and they lie. Usually, they will slink away and I…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.