(2015/06/26) Heritage (Rachel Dolezal and the Charleston Shooting)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 June 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Edition #933
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Rachel Dolezal, Guilty or Not Guilty? - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-16-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Can't Pretend - Tom Odell
Ch. 4: Act 2: Linda Martín Alcoff on Rachel Dolezal: Race Not an Individual Construct - @democracynow - Air Date: 06-17-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Chameleon - Ryan Beatty
Ch. 7: Song 3: Accept Yourself (David Jensen session 8/25/83) - The Smiths
Ch. 8: Act 4: Rachel Dolezal has nothing to do with trans people - @Radio_Dispatch - Air Date: 6-16-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Big Winter Jacket - Cayucas
Ch. 10: Act 5: A Hate Crime in Charleston - @onthemedia - Air Date: 6-19-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Dust In the Wind - Kansas
Ch. 12: Act 6: The process of trauma in black America - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBprime) - Air Date: 6-18-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: A Dose of White Supremacy - Neffe Odom Kragh-Muller
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Charleston shooting is part of a long history of anti-black terrorism - @voxdotcom - Air Date: 6-20-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: So Terrible It's Terrifying - Earmint
Ch. 16: Act 8: FBI Director Denies Charleston Shooting Was Terrorism - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-23-15
Ch. 17: Song 8: Coward - Vic Chesnutt
Ch. 18: Act 9: Why Charleston Shooter Dylan Roof Isn't a “Terrorist” But Maybe Some of Us Are - @blkagendareport - Air Date: 6-24-15
Ch. 19: Song 9: Turtle (Bonobo Mix) - Pilote
Ch. 20: Act 10: John Oliver on The Charleston Shooting - @LastWeekTonight w/ @iamjohnoliver - Air Date: 06-22-15
Ch. 21: Song 10: The losing kind - Harry Shearer
Ch. 22: Act 11: The real history of the Confederate flag - @allinwithchris Hayes - Air Date 6-23-15
Ch. 23: Song 11: Know Your History - Drumma Boy
Ch. 24: Act 13: Tim Wise: Black Deaths and White Culture: Challenging Racism After Charleston - @ToThePoint_KCRW - Air Date: 6-24-15
Voicemails
Ch. 25: We need a real conversation on race, not the distractions - Marcus from Wichita Falls, TX
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 26: Final comments on what's still missing from this episode
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Bonus Clips!
You can't have your identity anymore, just oppression - This Week in Blackness - Air Date: 6-17-15
You almost had me fooled, Rachel - The Read - Air Date: 6-16-15
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| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BESTUPLEFED PODCAST with Cups Today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:13.4 | Democracy Now, Back Talk from Bitch Media, Radio Dispatch, On The Media, This Week in Blackness, |
| 0:19.6 | Vox, The Black Agenda Report, Last Week Tonight, All in With Chris Hayes, and To The Point. |
| 0:29.8 | On Friday's show, we talked about Richard Dolegel and how she had figured her identity. |
| 0:34.0 | She apparently was white, but she went around basically the time he had to be African-American. |
| 0:39.0 | We declared her not guilty because we thought her intent was overall good, she was trying |
| 0:43.1 | to do right by the African-American community. |
| 0:45.2 | She worked at NAACP in Spokane, Washington, and they were happy with her and they stood |
| 0:50.2 | by her and they still stand by her, although she has now resigned. |
| 0:53.4 | I am here to tell you that I am switching my vote to guilty and I want to explain why. |
| 0:58.4 | First of all, something we already knew from Friday in explaining why she was calling |
| 1:03.4 | herself black, basically, she said, quote, we're all from the African continent. |
| 1:08.6 | Okay, that's incredible weak sauce. |
| 1:10.9 | I let it slide on Friday, but that is ridiculous. |
| 1:14.1 | It gives you a sense of the different lies of this woman as we. |
| 1:17.2 | Okay, but now let's talk about the substance of it and why it does matter that she was going |
| 1:22.0 | around pretending to be black. |
| 1:23.9 | So first of all, she apparently represented herself as black when applying to Howard University, |
| 1:30.4 | traditionally black university. |
| 1:32.4 | Wait, now that's serious, right? |
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