Biden's Report Card (So Far) On White Supremacy And Racial Justice
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 675 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, March 3rd. |
| 0:14.8 | When Joe Biden was inaugurated six weeks ago yesterday, he listed four main priorities for his administration, the pandemic, |
| 0:22.6 | the economy, climate change, and racial injustice. On the latter, he said this just a few days later. |
| 0:29.6 | Those eight minutes and 46 seconds that took George Floyd's life opened the eyes of millions of Americans and millions of people around all over the world. |
| 0:41.3 | It was the knee on the neck of justice and it wouldn't be forgotten. |
| 0:46.3 | Yes, he promised to weave equity and justice into the fabric of the whole of government, not just certain agencies. |
| 0:56.0 | A few minutes later, in the same address, he said this. |
| 1:00.0 | I believe this nation and this government need to change their whole approach to the issue of racial equality equity. |
| 1:07.0 | Change their whole approach. |
| 1:10.0 | A big promise on an ongoing 400-year-old issue. A few days later, |
| 1:16.1 | Georgetown law professor and racial justice advocate Paul Butler cited those quotes in a Washington |
| 1:21.2 | post op-ed that was kind of a first week report card for Biden on the topic. It was called |
| 1:26.9 | on racial justice. Biden is off to a |
| 1:29.5 | decent start. Let's hope it keeps up. So we've invited Paul Butler to come on with us a few times |
| 1:35.4 | over the next few months with his take on how much Biden is keeping it up as a way of not letting |
| 1:40.6 | racial justice conveniently fall by the wayside as other demands and other politics arise. |
| 1:46.2 | We'll also touch today on how the big lie of the stolen election might now be resulting in new |
| 1:51.4 | limits on black Americans voting rights given Republican power in state legislatures and the courts. |
| 1:58.5 | Again, Paul Butler is a Georgetown law professor. He's also a former |
| 2:02.1 | federal prosecutor. He's a Washington Post contributing opinion writer and author of the book, |
| 2:07.3 | Chokehold Policing Black Men. Hi, Paul. We appreciate you doing this with us. Welcome back to |
| 2:12.2 | WNYC. Hey, Brian. It's great to be here. And to set the stage, the first line of your op-ed on January 28th was that Biden was starting |
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