question archive "I think you know there are a great many people who are worried about the fact that this country is moving (and will have moved in the next 10, 15 years or so) to a point where there are more people of color in this country than there are white people," said Koppel
"I think you know there are a great many people who are worried about the fact that this country is moving (and will have moved in the next 10, 15 years or so) to a point where there are more people of color in this country than there are white people," said Koppel
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"I think you know there are a great many people who are worried about the fact that this country is moving (and will have moved in the next 10, 15 years or so) to a point where there are more people of color in this country than there are white people," said Koppel. "You think they need to be worried?"
"What I want them to realize is that equality doesn't have to take from anybody," Legend said. "Us all having equal rights, us having human dignity, or having a community that is healthier and stronger for everyone, doesn't need to hurt anybody. And if you see everything as a zero-sum game, yes, you might be worried that there are gonna be more people of color than there are white people; and that means if you're white you're gonna start losing something. But that only means that if people of color decide that they're gonna do to white people what white people have been doing to people of color for the past several centuries." Legend said, "We can live in a society where we all respect each other's human dignity, build a community that's stronger for everybody, safer for everybody, healthier for everybody. We don't need to believe that just because there's more of one group or another, that somebody else has to lose because of that."
"That's a beautiful expression, and I hope you're right," Koppel said.
"I don't know if it's gonna win the day; but that's what we should believe!" Legend laughed.
"If I had been born Black in this country, I'm not sure if I could find that reservoir of compassion that you're talking about." [Koppel said]
"Well, I feel like Black people have been patriotic in this country. We've been forgiving in this country. We've fought for the ideals that the nation said we were founded on. We've done that for centuries. And I think we've believed in America more than America believed in us, or itself. But, yeah, I think we have an interest in fighting for a stronger democracy, a more empathetic community. It'll make our lives better. But it'll make everyone's lives better, too."
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