Interview · moment 13 of 28
Vance's Interracial Family and the Return of Racial Consciousness
from Sen. JD Vance | The Tim Dillon Show #414 · #414
2 min
Guest
Vance talks about his Indian-American wife, his mixed-race kids, and argues that decades of identity-politics-driven racial consciousness have made race relations worse rather than better, contrasting it with a 90s ethos of judging people as individuals.
- Tim's family is interracial—his wife is Indian American, born and raised in San Diego, fully assimilated.
- They met and fell in love in the 1990s when the cultural message was to judge people by their values, not race.
- His mother observes that people are now obsessed with the racial categories of their mixed-race children instead of seeing them simply as babies.
- Inflaming racial consciousness makes people identify primarily as members of a racial group rather than as human beings or Americans, which leads to strife.
- Both Black and white Americans report that race relations are worse now than they were 20 years ago.