Can Racism Win in 2020?

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Over the last few weeks, Donald Trump has left no doubt that he is a racist. He has also made it clear -- race will be perhaps THE biggest issue in 2020. The question is: Can racism win? This week Katie and Joe talk to Keith Boykin. Keith is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton. Keith teaches at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:11.1	Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.
0:14.7	Our goal is to promote objective reality.
0:17.8	As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.
0:24.1	Words have power and words have consequences.
0:29.6	Joe and I are thrilled to welcome Keith Boykin.
0:33.6	Keith is a CNN political commentator, New York Times best-selling author, and a former
0:38.8	White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
0:41.8	Keith teaches at the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University
0:46.7	in New York and previously taught at American University in Washington, D.C.
0:51.9	He's a co-founder and first board president of the National Black Justice Coalition.
0:56.9	Keith Boykin, welcome to Words Matter.
0:59.2	Thank you very much.
1:00.2	Keith, hey, Jeff.
1:01.2	Keith, you're left out of your bio as we used to work together, so we have a history and
1:06.0	I'm glad to be reunited with you occasionally with Mr. Don Lemon on CNN and some other anchors there.
1:13.0	We didn't just work together, Joe was my boss.
1:15.8	Go ahead.
1:16.6	He didn't say that.
1:17.8	Yeah, we were colleagues, Keith.
1:20.0	That's right, that's what I say.
1:22.0	I also described President Clinton as my colleague, so I'm very, you know, sort of works all the way around.
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