Comments for Julian Bond on Race in America

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Summary: Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP, whose grandfather was born into slavery, candidly talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board decision by the U.S Supreme Court.
 

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Review of Julian Bond on Race in America

As a UVA alum, I listened to this with great interest. It made me wish I had taken Bond's class while at UVA. Just a well produced interview, clearly presented, well edited, with a certain depth. As white, educated, and fascinated by race in America, I felt like the program was well geared to me. I learned a little bit about Bond's personal history and the civil rights movement and then the interview turned to a quick surface discussion of race today. Sarah McConnell picked current and important topics on which Bond had something to say. Bond is clever and engaging, never at a lost for words; he is politically engaged but willing to explore truth with a degree of self-criticism. I was probably most interested in his comments on Trent Lott and parameters concerning the use of racially offensive language.

Note: I wrote this review in the Fall of 2005. As of fall of 2006, I am now working for With Good Reason as Associate Producer. I will leave the review up for now, as I stand by it, and believe it might be useful to stations. -JPD