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Van Lathan's The Red Pill

038 – Black Superman w/ Mehcad Brooks

Van Lathan's The Red Pill

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4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Van is joined by Mehcad Brooks, prominent actor known for his roles as Eggs on True Blood and currently James Olsen on Supergirl. Van and Mehcad discuss the state of racism in America, why Mehcad views racism as a mental illness, why people reinvent themselves when they get into acting in LA, the effect Eggs had on Van’s family and his role in Supergirl.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Van Lathons, the Red Pill, where we give you the brutal reality truth.

0:10.6

You have a fantastic guest on the podcast today.

0:13.6

But before we get to our fantastic guest,

0:16.0

who I've been a fan of for years and years and years,

0:18.2

I want to talk about the most important thing that is happening today, which is today is the vote. It is Tuesday. This

0:26.8

podcast is being uploaded. It is Tuesday. The vote is today. And in several

0:31.8

states, districts, counties around America

0:36.3

American citizens are going to have the opportunity to make their voices heard

0:41.5

to decide the way they want their future to go their We know as a community as an American community as a black community as a Latino community as an

0:56.8

LGBT community as a transgender community we know exactly what's wrong There are candidates out there right now that are

1:06.7

standing for and pushing platforms that are about what's right. The have advocates, you have people who are progressive, who are

1:17.0

willing to listen, and who are also willing to reach across the aisle to

1:21.7

people they may not actually agree with to come to a word that Americans

1:26.6

have forgotten. Compromise. There are certain things that we can't relent on but then there are other things to where a little bit of their voice needs to be heard and a little bit of our voice that needs to be heard now and anything that's dealing with our humanity and our

1:44.3

civil rights, you know, we ain't compromising shit, but in terms of the way the

1:49.4

country is governed from a fiscal standpoint, the way the country's governed you know from I guess

1:56.8

a social standpoint there are things voices to be heard on both sides of those and

2:01.0

we have candidates that are pragmatic enough and even

2:04.6

killed enough in a in a multitude of different places that can do that. There are two

2:12.2

races one in Florida one Georgia, where you have some fantastic candidates, Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams.

2:18.0

There is of course a gigantic race in Texas with Beto O'Rourke. We have to do more than just march and protest and tweet and retweet and retweet and like. and

2:33.4

retreat and like and follow.

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