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You are here: Home / Article Elsewhere / Why the West Isn’t Racist

January 29, 2021 By Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert

Why the West Isn’t Racist

Ralph Leonard at Unherd points out some important flaws in Kehinde Andrew’s narrative of the Enlightenment as an example of a deeply racist West, or the idea that a form of Pan-Africanism offers a better, more authentic, less tainted-by-the-West strategy:

Andrews exhibits a common vice of contemporary radicalism: the idea that to be radical is to be disenchanted with all that is Western. It is rather fashionable, as the shrill calls to “decolonise” suggest, to believe that authentic radicalism regards the Enlightenment not as a resource in challenging imperialism but an imperial project itself.

Read more here:
https://unherd.com/2021/01/why-the-west-isnt-racist/

Filed Under: Article Elsewhere Tagged With: decolonisation, Enlightenment, Pan-Africanism

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