[CLIP] Slavery Still Exists Today–And Here Is Living Proof: Simon Deng and Charles Jacobs

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“We are very distinct from other branded DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - programs out there in the sense that many of those other programs tend to reduce human beings to their immutable characteristics. So, they would say to you, ‘You are a white man and therefore you are privileged. And therefore you belong to the “oppressor class.” I, as a person of color, belong to the “oppressed class.” And we are - you and I - locked in a Manichean struggle from now until the end of time that we could brand as ‘oppressor-oppressed.” And now, what that does actually is put us both inside of an inescapable prison, because this is all that we are. This is all that we have ever been in, and this is all that we will be. So, there's no escape valve from this sort of ideology or worldview. One has to dispense with that worldview entirely and see it for the reductive thing that it is. And not just a reductive thing, it's a failure to apprehend the awesomeness of the human experience.” - Chloé Valdary