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Neil DeGrasse Tyson Turns Tables on Chris Wallace Race Question: ‘How Important Is It For White People To See Me Where I Am?’

‘I’ve never been bitter’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

DEGRASSE TYSON: “I will invert that and say, how important is it for white people to see me where I am? That’s a way more important force operating, especially if that is the community that wields resources and opportunities. And if you see a Black homeless person in the street and you never saw a Black academically achieved other human being, you’re prone to say, ‘Oh, that’s just their lot in life.’ But now you’ll see me and you’ll see the Black homeless person and you have to like, deal with that. It’s like, ‘Oh my gosh, there but for the lack of opportunity goes,’ you know, you get to…”

WALLACE: “A lot of people.”

(via Mediaite)

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