(2012/06/12) Profiles in profiling (Racism)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 June 2012
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Summary
Edition #613
Profiles in profiling
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Attacks on Obama vs Bush - Blacking it up - Air Date: 3-5-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Let's face it - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Ch. 4: Act 2: Deadly Racism Kenneth Chamberlain Tased, Shot By Cops - Young Turks - Air Date: 4-2-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: How to save a life - Vitamin String Quartet
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fight ALEC's racist and undemocratic agenda - BotL Activism Update
Ch. 7: Song 3: Something, Somewhere, Sometime (Live) - Ben Sollee
Ch. 8: Act 4: False Balance Abounds - Counterspin - Air Date: 4-5-12
Ch. 9: Song 4: Someday never comes - Brandi Carlile
Ch. 10: Act 5: Barack Obama Won Because He's Black - David Pakman - Air Date: 5-1-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: Makes no sense - The Rainmakers
Ch. 12: Act 6: Today's NRA - Shooting Straight - Le Show - Air Date: 4-1-12
Ch. 13: Act 7: The Lessons of the Zimmerman Arrest - The Progressive - Air Date: 4-12-12
Ch. 14: Song 7: Fight the power - Public Enemy
Ch. 15: Act 8: Stand Your Ground Double Standard in Florida - David Pakman - Air Date: 5-8-12
Ch. 16: Song 8: Double standard - Mustang Sally
Ch. 17: Act 9: Mainstream Conservative Writer Proclaims Love for White Supremacy - Majority Report - Air Date: 5-16-12
Ch. 18: Song 9: Surprise - Gnarls Barkley
Ch. 19: Act 10: White Supremacy Defended By Former National Review Writer - Young Turks - Air Date: 5-15-12
Ch. 20: Song 10: Every Goliath has it's David - The Boy Least Likely To
Ch. 21: Act 11: Newspapers Puts KKK Flyer on Front Page - David Pakman - Air Date: 5-24-12
Ch. 22: Song 11: Strange Fruit (1939 Single Version) - Billie Holiday
Ch. 23: Act 12: Disproportionate Racism, Not A Significant Cause - CounterSpin - Air Date: 5-18-12
Ch. 24: Song 12: Changes - 2Pac & Talent
Ch. 25: Act 13: Racist Tweets From New Orleans School Psychologist - Young Turks - Air Date: 5-23-12
Ch. 26: Song 13: The Youth - MGMT
Ch. 27: Act 14: The Creation Of A Race - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 4-29-12
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Ch. 28: Easier to blame individuals you know than the system - Anonymous
Ch. 29: A breakdown of Dave from Mass and white privilege - Rachel from Western Mass
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Voicemail Music:
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Ch. 30: Final comments on disagreeing without attacking and me doing a lot of sleeping around
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:04.8 | For details, visit the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.2 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with Coups today from BlackenedUp, |
| 0:12.5 | The Young Turks, a BestOfTheLeft activism update, Counter-Spin, The David Pakman Show, |
| 0:17.4 | The Show, The Progressive, The Majority Report, and Moomia Abu Jamal. |
| 0:21.0 | And a note for our listeners sensitive to mind-bending paradoxes, this episode acknowledges |
| 0:25.4 | the existence of both racism in America and an African-American president. |
| 0:30.1 | And so when you think about that, when you think about how that works and why liberals |
| 0:36.6 | and progressives and dams were all pissed at Bush, and you look at the literal that has |
| 0:43.2 | come about Obama, and he has done one-tenth of the stuff that Bush has done. |
| 0:49.0 | And please know, Obama has done some stuff. |
| 0:51.3 | Obama has done some stuff. |
| 0:52.3 | Drone tags. |
| 0:53.3 | Botanamo is still open. |
| 0:54.3 | Obama has done some stuff. |
| 0:55.7 | But he still has not done what Bush did. |
| 0:59.1 | And we never got to this level of attack at Bush. |
| 1:05.3 | And I feel like you have to acknowledge. |
| 1:06.8 | I know people don't want to acknowledge it. |
| 1:08.2 | Because I love when I read people like a couple of times, like Baratunde has posted some |
| 1:11.8 | questions on his Google+. |
| 1:12.8 | I remember one time it came up on Pinterest. |
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