Best of 2025: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance w/ Kellie Carter Jackson
The Majority Report with Sam Seder
Sam Seder
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 119 minutes
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On today's Best of 2025, Sam and Emma speak with Kellie Carter Jackson, associate professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College, to discuss her recent book We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance.
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| 0:00.0 | The majority rapport with Sam Cedar. |
| 0:06.9 | The destiny of America is always safer in the hands of the people than in the conference rooms of any elite. |
| 0:13.8 | Sam Cedar. |
| 0:14.9 | They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred. |
| 0:20.9 | We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought |
| 0:25.5 | by the military industrial complex. |
| 0:27.7 | The majority report with Sam Seder. |
| 0:32.0 | And I get the feeling you've been cheated. |
| 0:41.0 | He And I get the feeling you've been cheated. It is Wednesday, December 31st, 2025. |
| 0:47.3 | My name is Sam Cedar. |
| 0:48.4 | This is the five-time award-winning majority report. |
| 0:52.1 | We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA. |
| 1:03.0 | It is the final show of 2025, and we are doing our best of series. |
| 1:12.6 | Yes, we've actually taken vacation. |
| 1:14.9 | It's really the only week, the only six or seven days the entire year where we're all on vacation. |
| 1:24.3 | Today on the program, we are going to play an interview we did in February of 2025. |
| 1:30.3 | Kelly Carter Jackson, associate professor at Wellesley in the Department of Africana Studies. |
| 1:40.3 | And on her book, We Refuse a Forceful History of Black Resistance. |
| 1:49.3 | Then later in the program, Matt will do his Matt Picks, |
| 1:54.7 | where he has picked some amusing stuff a few to enjoy as well. |
| 2:00.3 | It is the final day of 2025. We're on vacation. We've, |
| 2:08.0 | we've managed to go through Christmas. In fact, I probably got back yesterday, not literally |
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