This renowned African-American intellectual warns against the extremism of Black Lives Matter, which feeds a "polarization" that makes him "tremble".
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- Why has the racial question taken such a central place in the United States?
Glenn LOURY.
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You must see Shelby Steele's movie, titled
What Killed Michael Brown?
(an African-American was shot dead in 2014 by police in Ferguson, an event that led to race riots and the creation of Black Lives Matter, Editor's note)
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He looks back at Brown's death, but it's a much more ambitious reflection on the racial issue in America, and the tangled up relationship between whites and blacks, psychologically, emotionally and politically.
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The film questions the significance of the many episodes in which young black men are confronted with the police, in a country of several hundred million inhabitants, where altercations in urban terrain are inevitable.
He defends the idea that hysteria
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