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532 | Juan Williams: The Rise & Fall of the 2nd Civil Rights Movement

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The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Juan Williams, Fox News Policy Analyst and author of New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Juan discuss how a second civil rights movement centered on policing, incarceration, and inequality rose during the Obama 2010s, demographic change in America since the 1960s, why the second movement didn't produce leadership on the level of Martin Luther King, Jr., where movements succeeded and where it failed, BLM's struggles, the cost of overreaching slogans like "defund the police," and what the Trump backlash means for racial issues in America.

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0:00.0

Marshall here. Welcome back to The Realignment. Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the show. For today's

0:06.0

conversation, I'm joined by Fox News' Juan Williams, discussed his new book, New Prize for

0:11.2

These Eyes, The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement. This book is all about the 2010s

0:17.3

post-Obama racial awakening that really shifted so much about our politics, everything

0:22.3

from Black Lives Matter to the George Foley protests, and how questions around policing basically

0:28.2

advanced the civil rights story from the 1950s and 1960s that we all know. Juan previously wrote,

0:35.5

eyes on the prize, America's Civil Rights Years, 1994 to 1965,

0:40.8

and I was really fascinating to get into the different ways that the first Civil Rights

0:44.1

Movement, which is focused on ending Jim Crow and securing voting rights, really differed from

0:48.8

the period that we experienced for the past decade or so. As we are sitting at the start of the second Trump presidency,

0:56.7

understanding the ways that the Second Civil Rights Movement both succeeded and failed

1:00.2

is critical to understanding the path to political success moving forward.

1:04.3

I was particularly interested in the focus on the limits of activism

1:07.8

as a means for pursuing political change, longstanding theme, and will focus a lot of time

1:12.2

and attention on on the show going forward. Hope you all enjoy the conversation and a huge thank you

1:17.8

for the Foundation for American Innovation for supporting the work of this podcast.

1:26.2

Juan Williams, welcome to The Realignment.

1:29.3

Marshall, my pleasure to be with you.

1:31.3

And, you know, it's just fun to know somebody who I admire.

1:35.3

I think this is a wonderful show.

1:37.3

Thank you so much.

1:39.3

So we're here to discuss a very, very interestingly timed book called New Prize for These Eyes, The Rise of America's

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