#1433 The legacy of White Supremacy in schools, health care and public pools
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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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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SHOW NOTES
This week, author Heather McGhee breaks down the driving force of American economic exclusion via the swimming pool. Baratunde asks Heather about all she has learned traveling across the country to write her book, The Sum of Us.
Ch. 2: The Role 'Nice White Parents' Play in School Segregation - The Brian Lehrer Show - Air Date 9-9-20
Chana Joffe-Walt, producer for This American Life and host of the new podcast Nice White Parents, and Dr. Rachel Lissy, senior Program Officer at Ramapo for Children, talk about investigating the relationship between white parents and segregation
Ch. 3: The NFL's Race-Norming Problem Is All Over Medicine - What Next - Air Date 6-7-21
The NFL recently announced it would stop using “race norming” when assessing who would receive a share of their recent $1 billing settlement for former players. The practice assumes Black players started with lower cognitive function.
Researchers say facial recognition software is up to 100 times more likely to misidentify people of color than white people. This week, Boston voted to end its use in the city.
Ch. 5: People Like Us, Education - Hidden Brain - Air Date 6-3-19
Generations of Americans have struggled against segregation. Most of us believe in the ideal of a colorblind society. But what happens when that ideal come up against research that finds colorblindness sometimes leads to worse outcomes?
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Ch. 6: Can We Finally End School Segregation? - The New Yorker Radio Hour - Air Date 5-21-21
By many accounts, American schools are as segregated today as they were in the nineteen-sixties, in the years after Brown v. Board of Education. WNYC’s podcast “The United States of Anxiety” chronicled the efforts of one small school district.
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Ch. 7: Patriotism and the culture wars - Dave from Olympia, WA
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 8: Final comments on the nature of airing dirty laundry
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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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| 0:00.0 | During today's episode, I'm going to be telling you about a new podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I think you should be checking out. |
| 0:07.6 | It's called Un-Effing the Republic. |
| 0:10.5 | They generally talk about un-Effing the United States, but today I'm going to be telling |
| 0:15.1 | you about their new episode in which they turn their days to the quasi-independent royal |
| 0:21.0 | principality to the north of Canada. |
| 0:24.4 | So hear me out mid-show when I tell you all about that. |
| 0:27.6 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of a Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:32.4 | take a look at the mechanisms by which the legacy of white supremacy is harmful to the health |
| 0:38.1 | and well-being of individuals and society as a whole. |
| 0:42.1 | Today's clips are from How To Citizen with Baratunde, The Brian Lerishow, What Next, |
| 0:48.8 | Democracy Now, Hidden Brain, and The New Yorker Radio Hour. |
| 0:58.8 | So you described this realization that the choices available are determined by policies |
| 1:04.2 | that other people make. |
| 1:05.9 | Do you remember an early moment where, like, oh, that policy creates the set of choices |
| 1:13.2 | people have to select from? |
| 1:15.9 | I mean, I think during the welfare reform debate, which centered off and around single |
| 1:23.0 | mothers, there was a lot that was discussed in the politics of it about encouraging work. |
| 1:33.0 | Welfare to work. |
| 1:34.0 | Welfare is not a lifestyle. |
| 1:36.1 | There's a sound clips of Bill Clinton out there. |
| 1:38.2 | We don't want to make this a lifestyle. |
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