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    <title>Restoration Spotlight - Episodes Tagged with “When Race Trumps Merit”</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <itunes:author>Hayden Ludwig</itunes:author>
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  <title>When Race Trumps Merit with Heather Mac Donald</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>First Right welcomes Heather Mac Donald, author, lawyer, and fellow at Manhattan Institute. Heather’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, provides facts for an alternative explanation for racial disparities, and the need for this corrective argument could not be more urgent.</itunes:subtitle>
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As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk. Watch now to learn uncomfortable truths about how the left-wing “systemic racism” narrative is destroying the country.
Want daily news without the liberal slant? Subscribe to First Right here (https://www.restorationofamerica.com/first-right/)
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<p>As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk. Watch now to learn uncomfortable truths about how the left-wing “systemic racism” narrative is destroying the country.</p>

<p>Want daily news without the liberal slant? Subscribe to First Right <a href="https://www.restorationofamerica.com/first-right/" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>]]>
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    <![CDATA[<p>First Right welcomes Heather Mac Donald, author, lawyer, and fellow at Manhattan Institute. Heather’s book, When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives, provides facts for an alternative explanation for racial disparities, and the need for this corrective argument could not be more urgent.</p>

<p>As long as alleged racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial differences, we will continue tearing down excellence and putting lives, as well as civilizational achievement, at risk. Watch now to learn uncomfortable truths about how the left-wing “systemic racism” narrative is destroying the country.</p>

<p>Want daily news without the liberal slant? Subscribe to First Right <a href="https://www.restorationofamerica.com/first-right/" rel="nofollow">here</a></p>]]>
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