Is Racism In The Heart Analysis

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In this paper I will be discussing Tommie Shelby’s essay “Is Racism in the Heart?” in which Shelby critiques the views of Jorge Garcia to where racism lies within a person, their heart or their head. In Shelby’s essay, he contends that Garcia’s assessment of the analysis of racism, in which the philosopher’s responsibility “is to make explicit precisely what makes it [the act of racism] wrong” is problematic in a couple ways. I will evaluate Shelby’s argument against Garcia as well as his own beliefs on the subject.

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