Chloé Simone – The Dark Side of Identity

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0:00 Chloé’s theory of enchantment

3:54 Can a legal remedy solve a spiritual problem?

4:29 The human problem of stereotyping

8:26 Why Chloé thinks the rise of white identity politics was “totally predictable”

10:56 Ground News ad

12:46 Derrick Bell’s case against Brown v. Board of Education

14:49 The subject-citizen in Israel and the U.S.

17:01 Chloé’s year of mourning

19:09 Can a listening campaign help ease tensions in Israel?

23:26 An “aha” moment in Bethlehem

28:34 Chloé critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s analysis of Israel-Palestine

31:56 Does race have a future?

Recorded February 13, 2026

Links and Readings

Theory of Enchantment

Chloé’s Substack post, “The First CRT President”

Derrick Bell’s essay, “The Unintended Lessons in Brown v. Board of Education”

Derrick Bell’s book, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism

Chloé’s Substack post, “The G-Word”

James Baldwin’s book, The Fire Next Time

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book, The Message

Coleman Hughes’s book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Thomas Chatterton Williams’s book, Self-Portrait in Black and White: Family, Fatherhood and Rethinking Race

Báyò Akómoláfé’s home page

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