Imagine that your class is visited by two scholars, one who believes that racism is rampant in the US, and another who thinks that we need to put the past behind us and forget past racist policies of the country. Their debate ranges over a number of topics including reparations, affirmative action, the new Jim Crow and mass incarceration, and white privilege/Black Lives Matter. What are the strongest arguments that each is likely to bring to the debate? Who do you think wins the debate and why? What would you add to the conversation and why? If racism is still an ongoing issue, what sort of constructive ways can it be challenged/dismantled? S 1