Coleman Hughes joins Brian Anderson to discuss the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, the widespread claims that his alleged murderers were motivated by racism, and public reaction to the killing—the subjects of Hughes’s article, “The Illusion of Certainty.”

Ahmaud Arbery’s violent death at the hands of Gregory and Travis McMichael has sparked nationwide outrage and reignited the debate over racial profiling. But “while it’s tempting to assume that the McMichaels were motivated by racism,” writes Hughes, “the only intellectually honest position is to admit that we do not know what motivated them—at least, not yet.”

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  1. Lois Lane Coolidge
    Lois Lane
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    Interesting details that I have not heard anywhere else.  

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  2. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
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    17:46 — “If you look at the actual likelihood of dying in one of these situations, it’s absolutely infinitesimal. In 2019, a total of nine unarmed black Americans got shot and killed by the cops, and nineteen white Americans suffered the same fate.”—Coleman Hughes.

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