Professor, economist Glenn Loury candidly opens up about race relations in the US

Stream Professor Glenn Loury's "Uncommon Knowledge" episode on race relations in the United State today on Fox Nation.

"The metaphor that Al Sharpton invoked at George Floyd’s funeral, ‘America take your knee off of our neck,’ is fiction," Loury said. "It’s a lie. It’s not an apt description of the actual circumstance. For a Black person to fear going out of their door, that the police might somehow... inappropriately treat them, it’s like not going outside because you’re afraid of being struck by lightning." 

Loury, who himself is Black, explained the history of race relations in the United States from a different vantage point, commenting on the 1968 Kerner Commission, which blamed the summer riots of 1967 on racism, lack of economic opportunity, and failed social programs.

He explained that, though the commission's recommendations were mostly heeded, there are still ways to go.