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World Service,12 Aug 2019,23 mins

Director of Antiracism Research and Policy Center US - Ibram Kendi

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For many Americans, Donald Trump’s incendiary tweets aimed at immigrants show him to be a racist and white nationalist. But maybe we exaggerate the importance of Donald Trump’s contribution to America’s problem with race? Stephen Sackur interviews prize-winning writer on race and founder of the Anti-Racist Research Centre in Washington, Ibram Kendi. He says the roots of racism run deep and an honest assessment of their strength has barely begun. Can the US ever fix a problem so intimately bound up with its past? (Photo: Ibram X Kendi. Credit: Getty Images)

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