#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 13 August 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Original Air Date 8/10/2021
Today we take a look at the mechanisms by which the legacy of White Supremacy is harmful to the health and wellbeing of individuals and society as a whole.
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Description: Color photograph of a corner of an old public pool that has been filled in. Where there was once water is now green grass. The railing of a metal ladder is still intact, but a weed grows around its base. Blue square tiles still edge the concrete corner.
Photo Credit: "The Memorial Pool in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD, by artist Joyce J. Scott" by Graham Coreil-Allen (Pool/Park History) | License | Changes: Slightly cropped
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| 0:23.9 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall take a look |
| 0:32.9 | at the mechanisms by which the legacy of white supremacy is harmful to the health and well-being |
| 0:38.8 | of individuals and society as a whole. Today's clips are from How To Citizen with Baratunde, |
| 0:45.9 | the Brian Lerershow, What Next? Democracy Now, Hidden Brain, and The New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:58.4 | So you described this realization that the choices available are determined by policies that other |
| 1:04.3 | people make. Do you remember an early moment where, like, oh, that policy creates the set of |
| 1:12.5 | choices people have to select from? I mean, I think during the welfare reform debate, |
| 1:20.1 | which centered off and around single mothers, there was a lot that was discussed in the politics |
| 1:30.0 | of it about encouraging work. Welfare to work? Welfare is not a lifestyle. There's a sound clips |
| 1:36.8 | of Bill Clinton out there. We don't want to make this a lifestyle. What we are trying to do today |
| 1:42.4 | is to overcome the flaws of the welfare system for the people who are trapped on it. From now on, |
| 1:49.5 | our nation's answer to this great social challenge will no longer be an ever-ending cycle of welfare. |
| 1:55.0 | It will be the dignity, the power, and the ethics of work. Yeah, which, you know, when it was clear |
| 2:03.6 | that if you could find a job, it wasn't actually going to... Nothing, none of the options were |
| 2:14.0 | going to pay enough for somebody to actually not be poor anymore. Welfare kept you basically poor. |
| 2:20.4 | A minimum wage job kept you poor. The ability to work your way into the middle class had long |
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