Former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien said during a recent talk at Harvard's Institute of Politics that she is often confronted by whites who want to take issue with her documentaries on race in America, the Washington Examiner reports.
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Recently removed from her position as anchor of CNN's Starting point, O'Brien will continue to make documentaries about race for the station. She was also recently named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.
"People would sometimes, when I give speeches, stand up and say, 'You know, I think your black-America documentaries [are] divisive. I think … we shouldn't think of ourselves as African American. We're Americans, and everybody should stop separating themselves out,' " she said in a new video from the institute.
She continued: "First of all, it's only white people who ever said that — 'If we could just see beyond race. If only people didn't see race, it would be such a better place; and you are responsible for bringing up these icky race issues, Soledad. You should just let sleeping dogs lie.' "
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