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A Call To Rethink American Leadership: "We Must Stop Outsourcing Responsibility For Our Democracy"
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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. has a message for Americans: it is time for ordinary people to take charge of our democracy.
An African American Studies professor at Princeton, Glaude argues that we have outsourced our responsibility for creating a just society to the political class for too long -- and it hasn’t worked.
Glaude explores these ideas in a new book titled “We are the Leader We Have Been Looking For.”
He says the roots of this thinking took hold around the time of the election of Barack Obama in 2008. Many Americans celebrated a post-racial era in the country, but Glaude felt uneasy. He worried Obama’s presidency limited Black political engagement as Black Americans – and others -- turned to a “prophet-like figure.”
Since then, Glaude has become increasingly convinced that political leaders are not the answer.
Glaude is the author of two previous books, “Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul” and the bestseller “Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own.” He is also a political commentator for MSNBC.
He joins Diane to talk about his new book, the 2024 election, and why he says the concept of “whiteness” is holding back all Americans from moving toward a more democratic future.
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