31. #TruthBeTold: The Destructiveness of Trump's Equity Gag Order & What Biden Must Do Now

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🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode, Kimberlé is joined by a panel of scholars and civil rights leaders to explore the impact of the Trump administration’s “Equity Gag Order,” and the president’s crusade against racial justice and gender equity. The conversation includes insights from leaders of the National Fair Housing Alliance and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about how the Equity Gag Order’s list of “prohibited concepts” has impaired their work, as well as a discussion of the importance of narrative and storytelling and how the Trump administration has engaged in historical revisionism in their attacks on racial. As the panelists explore how we can fight back against the Equity Gag Order and how to pressure the Biden administration to rescind it on day one, they also place the order in historical context as part of a long tradition of state repression of civil rights movements. With:  CAROL ANDERSON - Professor of African American Studies, Emory; Author, White Rage  RACHEL GODSIL - Professor of Law, Rutgers; Co-Founder, Perception Institute LAURA GOMEZ - Endowed Chair at UCLA Law; Professor in Sociology, Chicana & Chicano studies  CHARLES R. LAWRENCE III - Professor, William S. Richardson School of Law; Critical Race Theory pioneer  JANAI NELSON - Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF)  LISA RICE - President and CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw (@sandylocks)  Produced by Julia Sharpe-Levine  Edited by Julia Sharpe-Levine and Rebecca Scheckman  Additional support provided by the African American Policy Forum  Music by Blue Dot Sessions  Follow us at @intersectionalitymatters, @IMKC_podcast

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0:00.0	The 2024 presidential election was marked by soaring highs and crushing lows. Black women, 91% of whom turned out for VP Harris, once again proved to be the most engaged, progressive, and resilient voting bloc.
0:16.0	In an election campaign where rampant sexism and racism was directed not only at Harris,
0:22.1	but at black women more broadly, the misogy noir we just witnessed is already being written
0:27.0	out of the analysis of what actually happened.
0:30.0	There seems to be a widening gap between what black women experienced and what the
0:34.1	pundit and political classes choose to talk about.
0:37.3	So join host Kimberly Crenshaw for a virtual under the blacklight conversation on December 3rd at 7 p.m. Eastern.
0:45.7	Black women advocates, activists, and analysts will offer their side of the story about the election
0:50.9	and highlight the risks to our democracy if we continue to erase black women
0:56.2	and their experiences. Register for free at Bitley slash Election 24 Road Ahead. That's Bitley
1:04.5	slash Election 24 Road Ahead. I'm Kimberly Crenshaw, and this is Intersectionality Matters, the podcast that brings
1:15.8	intersectionality to life by exploring the hidden dimensions of today's most pressing issues,
1:21.7	from, say, her name and COVID, to the war on civil rights and the global rise of fascism.
1:28.3	This idea travelogue lifts up the work of leading activists, artists, and scholars
1:33.3	and helps listeners understand politics, the law, social movements, and even their own lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.
1:43.3	We embrace the lives in deeper, more nuanced ways.
1:53.0	We embrace the vision of Martin Luther King where children are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
1:58.0	The left is attempting to destroy that beautiful vision and divide
2:02.9	Americans by race in the service of political power. By viewing every issue through
2:10.0	the lens of race, they want to impose a new segregation, and we must not allow that
2:16.6	to happen. Critical race theory, the 1619 project, and the crusade against American history is toxic
2:25.3	propaganda, ideological poison that if not removed, will dissolve the civic bonds that tie us together will destroy our country.
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