(2014/05/16) Perspective Taking (Racism)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 16 May 2014
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Edition #827
Perspective Taking
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: A Brief History of White Privilege, Racism and Oppression in America - Acronym TV (@dennistrainorjr) - Air Date: 04-29-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: Know your history - Ignite
Ch. 4: Act 2: Jim Demint's Delusional Slave History - @twibnation - Air Date 4-9-14
Ch. 5: Song 2: Can't keep up - Silhouette
Ch. 6: Act 3: How Whites Have Benefited From Affirmative Action Throughout American History - @majorityfm - Air Date: 04-23-14
Ch. 7: Song 3: North by North - Faded Paper Figures
Ch. 8: Act 4: Three Things About the Donald Sterling Tape - illdoc1more (@jsmooth995) - Air Date: 4-28-14
Ch. 9: Song 4: Tobacco Road - Common Market
Ch. 10: Act 5: Race in the Obama era - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date: 04-10-14
Ch. 11: Song 5: No guarantee - !Akimbo
Ch. 12: Act 6: The 'My Brother's Keeper' Initiative Part 1 - @historicalTWiB - Air Date 3-5-14
Ch. 13: Song 6: Truth - Amos Lee
Ch. 14: Act 7: NBC Illustrates Its Concept Of Diversity - @FAIRmediawatch - Air Date 5-2-14
Ch. 15: Song 7: Sometime around midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event
Ch. 16: Act 8: The 'My Brother's Keeper' Initiative Part 2 - @historicalTWiB - Air Date 3-5-14
Ch. 17: Song 8: Meaningless - The Nighty Nite
Ch. 18: Act 9: Conservatives The ONLY Group Opposing Racial Equality [POLL] - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 01-05-14
Voicemails:
Ch. 19: Banning polygmany is not discrimination - Raul from Hawaii
Ch. 20: Polygamy vs polyamory and questioning monogomy as natural - Matt from Michigan
Ch. 21: A poly perspective - Katie Klabusich from New York
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Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Ch. 22: Final comments on the American paradigm of restrictions on freedom
Closing Music:
Here We Are - Patrick Park
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors for the show. |
| 0:05.0 | For details, visit the membership tab at bestablef.com |
| 0:08.0 | and welcome to the award-winning Bestable F-Podcast with hope today from acronym TV. |
| 0:12.0 | This week in Blackness, the majority report, J-Smooth, All-In with Chris Hayes, |
| 0:17.0 | Historical Blackness, Counter-Spin and the Young Turks. |
| 0:20.0 | And you know the old saying about history being written by the victors? |
| 0:23.0 | Well it turns out that it's not the best way to get a complete picture of what really happened. |
| 0:28.0 | Who would have thought? |
| 0:29.0 | Never underestimate the power of the people when they understand the message. |
| 0:35.0 | Never underestimate that. |
| 0:37.0 | I think that this is something that can be done quite quickly. |
| 0:39.0 | I think it's something that can be done rather efficiently. |
| 0:42.0 | It's just going to require a large enough parade. |
| 0:44.0 | It's going to require a large enough people to understand the core concepts. |
| 0:48.0 | And that's the real work that we have to do right now. |
| 0:51.0 | Is hit that critical tipping point, which is probably around 20 or 30% of the voting populace |
| 0:57.0 | actually understanding the issue. |
| 0:59.0 | And a big part of the issue when creating a multiracial, multi-ethnic democracy movement |
| 1:04.0 | is an understanding of how race and racism were constructed in the United States through law. |
| 1:10.0 | And how those laws informed our culture in much the same way those corporate rights |
| 1:15.0 | have been constructed through the law to ensure rule of the wealthy minority over the majority. |
| 1:21.0 | And how our culture reinforces and legitimizes that lack of democracy. |
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