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Toure Show

Akiba and Kenrya—How We Fight White Supremacy

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

How We Fight White Supremacy is a new book by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin that talks about how to deal with the insidious monster controlling life in America. What is it exactly and what does real resistance look like and what is freedom dreaming? They’ll break it all down. Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Toure Show Episode 85 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington The House: DCP Entertainment For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

White support. White supremacy means a political and economic system that privileges white people

0:19.2

and locates all or almost all power in their hands.

0:23.4

When I say America is a white supremacist nation, I don't mean all white people have clan hoods

0:28.5

in their closet, far from it.

0:30.1

I mean the country is run by a system that rewards whiteness and punishes other races.

0:36.0

White supremacy means the way white people have the overwhelming majority of wealth and political power in this country. It's the way white people

0:44.3

are more likely to get hired and less likely to be killed by the police. America

0:49.2

might be the greatest country on earth, but it will never be as great as it could be until we dismantle white supremacy. How do we do that? How do we

0:57.9

fight against white supremacy? My friend the writer Akiba

1:01.7

Solomon and her friend,

1:03.4

Canria Rankin, have put together a fascinating anthology called

1:07.2

how we fight white supremacy that has a lot of ideas about the way

1:10.9

forward. Let's get into it. It's Akiba Solomon and

1:13.7

Kenria Rankin, the authors of how we fight white supremacy on Torrey show.

1:19.8

I'm Akiba Solomon. Hi, I'm Kenria Rankin.

1:23.3

What is white supremacy?

1:26.6

So we define white supremacy in the book

1:29.3

as a cultural, economic, and political system that thrives on the subjugation of people who are not white.

1:35.6

Yeah, yeah. Where do we see it?

1:38.2

Everywhere. True, true. Like, help me, again, is there, give me an example of it so we can help people, because I think people know what

1:48.0

interpersonal racism is and they generally default to that when we talk about racism?

1:53.0

Yeah, but even black people I think quite often see like somebody said something where they're really talking about micro-aggressions.

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