9. Gary Younge: There is no 'good racism'
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🗓️ 31 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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The award-winning Gary Younge is one of Britain's most distinguished journalists. We talk about the upheaval in the US, whether Trumpism will live on, what role Black Lives Matter will play - and what hope there is for the left in the UK, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey hey, Owen Jones here. Welcome to the podcast. Now I am really honored to have Gary Young, |
| 0:13.8 | one of, I would say, the preeminent columnists in the Western world. I've no Gary for a very |
| 0:20.2 | long time. I think he's kind of like the mentor of progressive columnists. I certainly |
| 0:25.2 | have always looked up to him when I aspired to be a writer. I suppose he was one of the people |
| 0:31.2 | I looked up to as a teenager in these suffocating times of there is no alternative. He was a bit of a |
| 0:36.5 | lifeboat. So I've got loads to talk to him about about white supremacy, about systemic racism in the |
| 0:43.2 | US, about Trumpism, about Black Lives Matter, about the struggles against injustice. What hope now |
| 0:49.4 | Trump has gone and what now in the age of Biden. Better housekeeping first. The new podcast is all |
| 0:55.2 | about offering an alternative to the corporate media, taking on injustice, speaking truth to power, |
| 1:00.5 | offering a bit of a ray of optimism and showing there's another way but also having some fun. |
| 1:05.3 | We've got loads of interviews, discussions, documentaries, feet to listen to. To expand and |
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| 1:32.4 | boost the podcast, gets the word out, subscribe to the podcast and share the show. After all of that, |
| 1:37.9 | please listen to me chatting to that fountain of wisdom that is Gary Young. |
| 1:47.0 | Gary, welcome, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:52.2 | No, big honor, big pleasure. Now I know you had the dreaded Rona recently, so you're now kind of, |
| 1:58.8 | you're recovered. And I'm back to the same ill health I was before I had Corona virus, yes. |
| 2:05.4 | Well, that's good to know that the old Gary, whatever, is back. Let's go straight into it. |
| 2:12.2 | Let's go straight into it. So we've just had this attempted far right insurrection |
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