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🗓️ 31 March 2022
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If you're not dizzy from this week in America you ain't paying attention. From the slap seen 'round the world at the Oscars to the way Merrick Garland is slapping Americans in the face with his resistance to holding Trump accountable to the famous couple that should be in the headlines--The Thomas's to say our democracy and society is hanging on by a thread would be the understatement of the century. Danielle and Waj discuss all the headlines you need to know about on this episode of #democracyish.
Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali
Executive Producer: Adell Coleman
Senior Producer: Quinton Hill
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. |
0:13.0 | I am Danielle Moody. |
0:15.0 | And I'm with Jahat-Lee. |
0:16.4 | And we're going to be talking about all the slaps today. |
0:21.1 | All the slaps. All the slaps. |
0:22.2 | All the slaps. |
0:23.0 | So many, many, many slaps. |
0:26.5 | Wash, it has been a while, my friend, since we have been together. |
0:31.7 | And we're coming back on one of the fastest news cycles, |
0:35.5 | one of the most outrageous news cycles that I think that we have seen |
0:40.5 | since Donald Trump was in the Oval Office. So let's start off with the first of the slaps, |
0:46.6 | which is Will Smith, Chris Rock, in this slap, we're talking about abelism. We're talking about disabilities. We're talking about black women's hair. We're talking about two black men. We're talking about all of these things. What did you think? If you saw it live, if you saw it that day or the next, what did you think about what transpired between |
1:13.6 | Will Smith and Chris Rock following his quote unquote joke about Jada Pinkett's alopecia? |
1:23.0 | I saw Slapgate in real time. And as I was watching it in real time, |
1:28.4 | when he made the GI Jane joke, |
1:31.0 | he did a quick cut to Jada. |
1:32.5 | And I'm like, oh, she's not happy. |
1:34.1 | And then she rolled her eyes |
1:36.3 | and there was groaning in the crowd. |
1:37.6 | And I'm like, all right, it'll move on |
1:39.2 | because Will just laughed it off initially. |
1:42.1 | And then it goes, they started bleeping it. I'm like, that's not normal. |
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