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Now welcome to the award winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from the majority

report.

The David Pakman showed the story collider, radio dispatch, the young Turks, the Blackage

into Report, the Tom Hartman program, and button poetry.

And a note that some white listeners may find this episode to be offensive in spite of

it not being the least bit offensive.

By any rational metric in this country, race is a huge, determined factor of so much

of our lives.

We know that racial bias persists in prison sentencing and kids getting suspended and kids

facing school detentions.

We know racial bias exists in every aspect of American life and not only does it exist

that is really part of our definitional legacy.

And this is also Jonathan Shate wrote this piece kind of contrasting and saying, look,

well, there is some problem with this assertion that Republican and conservative politics

is systemically racially biased.

And look, if you make a very narrow claim, like it's wrong to say every single person

who's a Republican is racist, we can accept that.

Of course, that's true.

What that argument is evading is really the truly systemic context in which racial politics

still defines who we are and drives a certain segment of America's voting population.

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