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🗓️ 15 October 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I've been thinking a lot about how we talk about politics versus how we should talk about politics. |
0:09.0 | At the debate so far, the topic of K through 12 education has technically been covered but it was raised |
0:15.1 | primarily as a question about Joe Biden's record on school segregation and |
0:18.8 | Kamala Harris's objection to that record based on her own personal experiences. The millions of students who attend |
0:25.6 | schools that are as segregated now as they were 30 years ago, they weren't really part of the conversation |
0:37.6 | at all. Now admittedly I noticed this because I was eager for Bernie Sanders to have an opportunity to discuss his Thurgen |
0:41.3 | Marshall Education plan which was described in the nation as, quote, |
0:45.6 | the most progressive and equitable public education agenda of any presidential candidate in the |
0:50.9 | modern history of the United States. He actually has an integration |
0:55.8 | plan. But my personal frustrations aside, sometimes it seems like the people who run the |
1:01.7 | news are less interested in eliciting information that would be useful to voters. |
1:07.0 | People who really worry about their children's education, |
1:11.0 | then about creating viral moments. |
1:14.0 | While education is framed as an interpersonal dispute, |
1:20.0 | health care is framed as an accounting question, rather than an ethical one. |
1:25.0 | How will we pay for that, rather than can you ever put too much value on a human life? |
1:31.0 | And when it comes to so-called identity politics, well, it feels like we're |
1:36.3 | having increasingly reductive conversations. Myriad headlines opine on a given candidate's ability to capture the interest of Latin X voters. |
1:46.0 | Reporters ask me, what is the campaign strategy to, quote, attract black students in particular? |
1:51.6 | Asian American voters are completely |
1:53.7 | invisibilized despite making up enormous percentages of |
1:57.5 | populist states like California and New York. And Native American voters are more often than not treated as a footnote. |
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