Hello all.

On January 24, 2008, I was a guest of "On the Line", a live call-in talk show (in Canada) on Crossroads Television (CTS) hosted by Christine Williams.

The one hour program focussed primarily on a proposal by the Toronto District School Board to launch an "Afrocentric" school for "Blacks" in Toronto, as a three year pilot project.

On January 29, 2008, the TDSB adopted the proposal. A debate is now raging about racism, segregation, and education.

In the show, I condemn the proposal, and propose, instead, that all children need to learn how to think rationally.

It was a one hour show. It's available on youtube, broken into three parts:

Part 1 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CKhIz0o502g
Part 2 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=llqN07FWbHY
Part 3 - http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=LSPbBD0AIzA

My biggest regret: at one point, searching for a word in a time-squeezed program, using the word "instinct" in a non-technical sense (I meant it to refer to a chronic tendency in society). No doubt, it will leave some objectivists thinking (erroneously) that I think man has instincts for survival (though I doubt the majority of folks watching the program are sensitive to the implications of my having used the word "instinct"). Let there be no confusion about that: I reject the idea that man is born with such instincts.

Apart from that: you will perhaps enjoy watching a politician reject racist schooling by attacking its epistemology and ethics.

Cheers,

Paul

P.S.: my open letter to the Premier of Ontario, Canada, on the same subject, can be read here: http://www.freedomparty.on.ca/mediareleases/2008.01.25.pr.htm