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A History of Racist Ideas

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🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Jamelle Bouie talks to Professor Ibram Kendi about the racial components of Trump's policies and the history of these racist ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:04.9

I think the effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda.

0:12.1

You call me up, you said, put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.

0:17.0

And if there are folks that shouldn't be in this country, they're going to be detained.

0:21.0

And so, I apologize for nothing here.

0:23.7

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about Donald Trump, who can't quite

0:31.4

quit the idea that we need to keep Muslims out of America. I'm Jamal Buoy,

0:35.7

Slates Chief Political Correspondent in your host for today's show.

0:39.5

On Tuesday, the White House unveiled the latest iteration of its travel and refugee ban.

0:44.1

Its broad policy meant to keep refugees and visitors from a handful of majority Muslim countries

0:49.2

out of the United States. The changes to the original order, which came just at the beginning

0:53.8

of Trump's presidency, are substantial. Iraq is no longer on the list of restricted points of

0:59.0

origin. And the administration also makes clear that legal permanent residents and current visa

1:03.7

holders are not blocked from the new version. It still bars all refugees from entering the United

1:08.7

States for the next 120 days. And it also lowers the cap for refugee admissions to 50,000,

1:14.4

110,000. But there's still a big problem on top of all of that. Like the original Muslim ban,

1:21.5

this one doesn't do anything to protect Americans from actual threats. In fact, an analysis from

1:26.7

the Department of Homeland Security found that few of any people from my country's on the ban

1:30.9

list have ever been involved in terrorism once in American soil. Those that were,

1:35.8

were radicalized years after arriving. So, what's the point? Why are we still doing this?

1:41.6

For that, we have to look to the architects of the order, Steven Miller and Steven Bannon,

1:46.0

key advisors to President Trump. Both hold Maniki and racial views,

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