Are We Holding Jasmine Crockett to Impossible Standards? | MiniPod
Native Land Pod
iHeartPodcasts and Reasoned Choice
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s MiniPod, hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers talk about holding our elected leaders accountable. Not everyone who is Black is pro Black and we should call that out, BUT there are moments when we hold our leaders to impossible standards. We saw this on flagrant display with some of the critiques of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett after she announced her run for senate.
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| 0:39.4 | Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Okay, welcome to the mini pod. Today, we got a great |
| 0:45.9 | viewer question asking us about supporting black elected who might not support us, but I don't want to |
| 0:52.8 | butcher his words. He can say it much better than I |
| 0:54.9 | can. Take a listen. Hey, Native Land Pod. This is Councilman Ifeo O'Claetor of Shaker Heights, Ohio. |
| 1:01.5 | Welcome Bacari to the Native, welcome home, Bacari, to the Native Land Pod. I wanted to ask you all, |
| 1:08.3 | we're in this season. A lot of us are trying to root for everybody |
| 1:11.8 | black, but when it comes to voting and recognizing that there are black electives who maybe |
| 1:18.0 | haven't supported policies that support black communities, and black Democrats even, that |
| 1:23.2 | maybe are supporting policies that aren't beneficial to black communities, particularly |
| 1:27.4 | doing things |
| 1:29.4 | completely opposite of what our activist brothers and sisters might be wanting us to do. I'm curious about |
| 1:34.0 | how you thread that needle and how you hold black elected accountable when they're running for |
| 1:37.7 | higher office, and especially when they've done, when they support some policies that ultimately |
| 1:43.7 | will be harmful towards black communities. |
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