(2013/08/27) Exposing the paradigm of economic oppression (Racism)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 August 2013
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Edition #749
Exposing the paradigm of economic oppression
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Black Woman Pretends to Be White, Job Offers Skyrocket - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 04-10-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Call me back - Mike Flowers Pops
Ch. 4: Act 2: The George Zimmerman Trial Goes Much Deeper Than The Media Will Tell You - Lee Camp - Air Date: 07-18-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Missing persons 1 & 2 - OneRepublic
Ch. 6: Act 3: 'Black People' Problems are Personal Choices & Obama's Fault, Says O'Reilly - Young Turks - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: You spin me right round - Dead or Alive
Ch. 8: Act 4: The consequence of racial oppression is poverty - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 07-24-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Working poor - Horse Feathers
Ch. 10: Act 5: Don Lemmon: Act White In Order To Survive - Citizen Radio - Air Date 7-30-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Let's misbehave - Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
Ch. 12: Act 6: Chris Hayes Mocks Bill O'Reilly w/ Satirical Tirade Against White Culture - All In with Chris Hayes - Air Date: 7-30-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: White privilege - Macklemore
Ch. 14: Act 7: Fast Food Nation – Strike for Economic Justice - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 15: Song 7: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 16: Act 8: Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy, A Trip to the Grocery Store - WorldTrustTV - Air Date: 08-22-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 17: The need to focus on other LGBTQ issues - Elka from Fort Wayne, IN
Ch. 18: Wade in favor of single-payer health care - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
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Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 19: Final comments about how the movie Office Space explains the world flawlessly
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
Activism:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/19/1232257/-Fast-food-strikes-go-nationwide-on-August-29#
https://www.facebook.com/events/223213117833935/
https://www.facebook.com/events/218114265010028/
Information for this segment can be found at:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/12/saavedra_jantuah_dressed_in_the.html
http://www.thenation.com/article/175764/misremembering-i-have-dream#axzz2czgzhhcz
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/8/26
http://www.afscme.org/union/history/mlk
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kenzo-shibata/why-chicago-teachers-support_b_3799293.html
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| 0:12.6 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with Cupsidae, |
| 0:15.8 | from the David Pakman show, comedian Lee Camp, the Young Turks, Tom Hartman program, |
| 0:20.3 | Citizen Radio, all-in-with Chris Hayes, and World Trust TV. |
| 0:24.4 | And a note of warning that this episode contains elements of satire that may be too subtle |
| 0:28.8 | for some listeners. |
| 0:34.0 | An unemployed black woman pretends to be white and the number of job offers she gets |
| 0:40.0 | go way up. This is an interesting article on techyville by Yolanda Spivey. |
| 0:44.2 | Yolanda Spivey is a black woman. She was unemployed two years. She applied to over 300 |
| 0:48.8 | open jobs in insurance, which is where she worked for 10 years, definitely her area of expertise |
| 0:53.6 | and experience. She did not get a single response. She went back to college, finished her degree, |
| 0:58.4 | applied again, wasn't getting any responses to the job she applied to on monster.com. |
| 1:03.6 | So monster has a diversity questionnaire, which asks you about your race. You can decline |
| 1:08.7 | to disclose that. And they say it will not jeopardize your chances of getting a job. |
| 1:13.7 | It's just kind of for informational purposes. You can't skip the question, |
| 1:17.2 | but you can save the client to identify. So Yolanda Spivey thought maybe that's hurting me. |
| 1:22.9 | She goes into her monster.com profile and she changes it to decline to identify. |
| 1:27.9 | Isn't hearing back from anybody. She hears, she thinks of another idea. She goes back in, |
| 1:32.5 | she creates a fake applicant named Bianca White fills in the identical employment history, |
| 1:38.8 | identical resume, identical education as her real self. Yolanda Spivey changes the phone number |
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