Welcome everyone. Unfortunately today I have a rerun episode for you. I know. I know it was a surprise to me as well.

I'm doing this because I'm on about day seven of being sick. Today's Tuesday, last Wednesday. I woke up not feeling great and it's been downhill day by day ever since then.

I may have turned the corner. I might be on the mend, but I am certainly not mended yet. So what I decided to do today was give myself a break.

Do a rerun, but it is a very carefully chosen rerun given the events of the past week.

This is an episode that I think is perfect for a refresher course on the topic of the interplay between racism and privilege and oppression and so forth.

And it could also be the springboard for a new conversation on the topic.

And in addition to the rerun of the episode, I have new comments at the end. So even if you want to skip the show, you can skip forward to the one hour mark or somewhere in there where I have some new stuff to say.

And now welcome to the best of the left podcast with Coop today from the majority report. The David Pakman show. Daniel Lee from the Story Collider, radio dispatch, the young Turks, the Black Agenda report, the Tom Hartman program, and Denise Froman from Buds.

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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

detention. 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, you know, there is some problem with sort of 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. But what that argument is vading 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.

And, you know, the way that shows up is in Eric Holder being treated with utter disrespect by Louis Gomer, the way that shows up in in birth,

there is them and all this other garbage. And it also shows up with Britt Yume, who was on Fox Sunday, I believe, with Chris Wallace talking about President Obama and Eric Holder's speeches at the National Action Conference,

which took place in New York this past week and really getting to the heart of his views of how being black have affected Eric Holder and Barack Obama's careers.

But let's take a listen to this.

Tricks me is kind of crybaby stuff from from Holder. My, my sense about this is that both Eric Holder and Barack Obama have benefited politically enormously from the fact that they are African American and the first to hold the jobs that they hold.

And this, I don't know if he specifically meant race or not, I suspect perhaps he did, but to those two men, race has been both a shield and a sword that they've used effectively to defend themselves and to attack others.

Okay, so let's be clear about this. So President Obama, who and David Sardin made this point actually in back to our future, President Obama's entire brand in campaign in some respects was modeled

after the 1980s Jordan commercials for Nike, which in a certain sense was aspirational post-racial.

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