Black Lives Don't Matter to Corporations, 'Cancellations' & the History of Policing w/Eugene Puryear

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

While Abby is still on break, Robbie Martin brings onto the podcast activist and journalist Eugene Puryear to discuss the many contradictions intertwined in the ongoing debate about race solidarity and the Black Lives Matter movement. Eugene separates the cynical corporate 'solidarity' from its revolutionary core and examines how elites have seized on the concept of 'cancel culture' to play victim. In the second half of the episode, Eugene breaks down the history of white supremacy in American policing. Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey // twitter.com/EugenePuryear

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0:00.0	I'm going to be. Hello. Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is your host for today, Robbie Martin.
0:35.3	If you haven't been listening to the last several episodes,
0:39.4	we just did a two-part episode on Q and on.
0:43.8	Abby is still on break.
0:46.7	She'll be back pretty soon.
0:49.3	So you're stuck with me for at least another month.
0:53.5	But I've been really looking forward to this episode.
0:56.5	And it was actually Abby's suggestion to bring on Eugene per year.
1:02.3	Eugene is an incredibly prolific activist ever since I've known of him.
1:09.3	He's been an important figure in this movement of the Black Lives Matter movement.
1:14.4	He was heavily involved in the anti-war answer coalition.
1:18.6	He's been involved in protests against the blockade of Gaza by Israel.
1:24.1	He hosted his own show on Sputnik radio for, I believe a few years.
1:31.2	He's a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
1:34.7	There was once a time where he almost ran on a ticket with Gloria Lariva to be vice president on that ticket.
1:42.0	But he technically couldn't qualify because he was under 35 years old
1:45.4	at the time. In fact, I don't want to sound patronizing to Eugene, but his book shackled and chained,
1:52.4	which I recommend everybody check out, was released in 2013, and Eugene was only 27 years old,
1:59.5	I believe, when that book was released.
2:02.3	Eugene also just helped launch a new independent news outlet called Breakthrough News.
2:08.5	Go check them out on Twitter at BT Newsroom.
2:11.6	And I forgot to mention this very important history,
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