2024-05-01
56 分钟Coleman Hughes believes we should strive to ignore race both in public policy and in our private lives. But when it comes to personal identity and expression, how feasible is this to achieve? And are there any other individual traits we should also seek to ignore? Coleman and Tyler explore the implications of colorblindness, including whether jazz would've been created in a color-blind society, how easy it is to disentangle race and culture, whether we should also try to be 'autism-blind', and Coleman's personal experience with lookism and ageism. They also discuss what Coleman’s learned from J.J. Johnson, the hardest thing about performing the trombone, playing sets in the Charles Mingus Big Band as a teenager, whether Billy Joel is any good, what reservations he has about his conservative fans, why the Beastie Boys are overrated, what he's learned from Noam Dworman, why Interstellar is Chris Nolan's masterpiece, the Coleman Hughes production function, why political debate is so toxic, what he'll do next, and more. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video. Recorded March 6th, 2024. Other ways to connect Follow us on X and Instagram Follow Tyler on X Follow Coleman on X Sign up for our newsletter Join our Discord Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Learn more about Conversations with Tyler and other Mercatus Center podcasts here. Photo Credit: Evan Mann
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hello, everyone, and welcome back to conversations with Tyler.
Today I'm here with Coleman Hughes.
Coleman has a great new book out, the End of race, arguments for a colorblind America.
But Coleman is more than just a book author.
He is a well known blogger.
He has a very famous podcast, Conversations with Coleman.
He has been a star in rap music.
He plays jazz music, trombone, professionally in New York City nightclubs, and he's all around a public intellectual and famous person.
Coleman, welcome.
Thank you so much.
And I have to apologize for stealing the name of your podcast for mine.
I figured I have alliteration, so I have extra reason to do it.
If your name was Tyler, it would be bad, but in fact, it's totally fine.
Now, before we get to your book, I have just some random questions for you.
What have you learned from JJ Johnson?
Hmm.
What is most interesting about JJ Johnson is that he was an extreme perfectionist.
What people don't realize about JJ, at least people that aren't deep kind of connoisseurs, is that most of his solos on his records were prepared to an extent that is not true of his other contemporaries, like Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, et cetera.