(2013/03/03) Privilege, context and offense (Racism)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 4 March 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #694
Privilege and context
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Jamie Foxx SNL Joke Makes Conservatives Cry Racism - Young Turks - Air Date: 12-12-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Carolina Dreams - Heroes & Villains
Ch. 4: Act 2: Arkansas GOP Struggling to Keep Up with America - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 2-1-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: What's going on - Marvin Gaye
Ch. 6: Act 3: Were Dorner's Complaints Legitimate? Who Burned the Cabin? - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-14-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Light & Day / Reach for the Sun - The Polyphonic Spree
Ch. 8: Act 4: Qualifying Accusations Of Police Brutality - CounterSpin - Air Date 2-15-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Lost kitten - Metric
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Dorner Manifesto - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 2-26-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Old news - Rick Estrin & The Nightcats
Ch. 12: Act 6: GOP Penitent Post-Election Minority Outreach Ritual - Rachel Maddow - Air Date 2-8-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Between love & Hate - The Strokes
Ch. 14: Act 7: Duke Fraternity's 'Asian' Themed 'Racist Rager' - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-07-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Too much to ask - Bad Religion
Ch. 16: Act 8: White privilege unwittingly on display in hack joke from The Onion - This Week in Blackness - Air Date 2-25-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Going underground - The Jam
Ch. 18: Act 9: Louis CK explains historical context to Jay Leno - The Tonight Show
Ch. 19: Song 9: The confrontation - Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin
Ch. 20: Act 10: I Looked Oriental! Said Fox News Panelist - Young Turks - Air Date: 02-13-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: I am a rock - Paul Simon
Ch. 22: Act 11: Stewart Lee on Political Correctness
Voicemails:
Ch. 23: Rebuttal to drone strike discussion - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
Ch. 24: The constitution are supposed to be a set of principles - Nathan from Vancouver, WA
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 25: Final comments on the fundamental difference between conservatism and progressivism
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at BestOfAleft.com and welcome to the award-winning BestOfA Left |
| 0:10.7 | Podcast with him today from the Young Turks, the Rachel Maddo Show, Counter-Spin, |
| 0:14.8 | Moomi Aboujmall, This Week in Blackness and Comedians, Lewis CK, and Stewart Lee. |
| 0:19.8 | And a quick clarification before we begin, that white privilege is not something that |
| 0:23.3 | one can actually be guilty of, however you can be guilty of failing to recognize it. |
| 0:30.0 | So we've got Fox on Fox Crime, Jamie Fox is apparently done a monologue on |
| 0:34.8 | Saturday Night Live that is unacceptable to Fox News Channel. He did a scene that |
| 0:40.6 | was, how black is that? I watched it, it was really funny, Sean Hannity watched it, |
| 0:45.0 | and he got really angry. |
| 0:47.6 | There's two weeks ago, left-wing actor Jamie Fox, he referred to the president, |
| 0:50.6 | the anointed one, as quote, as Lord and our Savior. Fox is making headlines yet again |
| 0:55.0 | after appearing this weekend on Saturday Night Live, but this time it's, well, |
| 0:59.4 | they're not so funny, racially charged joke about his new movie. Listen to this. |
| 1:04.4 | It's good to be black. Black is a new white. |
| 1:07.8 | I'm telling you, black, I mean, how black is this right here? Nice, nice flying. |
| 1:12.6 | Django Unchained, I play a slave. How black is that? |
| 1:18.2 | And in the movie, I have to work chains. How black is it? |
| 1:23.4 | But don't, don't, don't be worried about it because I get out to chains, I get free, |
| 1:27.4 | I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. |
| 1:33.4 | How great is that? |
| 1:36.2 | How great killing white people, really? |
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