The American author and cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams spent his life believing the American dictum that having black heritage makes a person fundamentally black. Williams never questioned this idea, until his white, blonde-haired daughter was born. What of his black heritage still existed in his daughter? The birth of his daughter led him to put forth the idea that we should let go of the racial categories of black and white. But what are we actually talking about when we talk about ‘race’? In the light of the Black Lives Matter movement, are these categories not absolutely necessary? Come and listen to Thomas Williams about racism and why we should let go of the notion of ‘race’.

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