Charles Blow wants Black Americans to move back to the South to gain real political power
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan K. Parton, and this is K-POP. |
| 0:04.2 | In his new book, The Devil You Know, A Black Manifesto, New York Times columnist Charles |
| 0:09.6 | Blow urges black Americans to reverse the great migration of the 20th century. |
| 0:15.1 | He wants them to move back to the South for one express purpose to gain political power. |
| 0:20.3 | There is a window here, and it's closing fast. |
| 0:23.1 | Like, bloody people just have to decide whether they want power or not. |
| 0:26.1 | Blow isn't just proposing the idea. |
| 0:28.5 | He's followed his own advice. |
| 0:30.7 | Last year, he moved from New York City to Atlanta. |
| 0:34.7 | Here Blow explained his manifesto, the rationale behind it, and why begging white people to |
| 0:40.1 | change in the absence of political power is not a position African Americans want to be |
| 0:45.1 | in right now. |
| 0:51.9 | Charles Blow of The New York Times. |
| 0:55.7 | Welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:57.2 | Thanks, Jonathan. |
| 0:58.2 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:59.2 | I've been so looking forward to having this conversation and having you on the podcast. |
| 1:05.4 | Since we first talked about what was then the book you were working on, the book you |
| 1:10.2 | were writing, and now it is out, The Devil You Know, A Black Power Manifesto. |
| 1:16.7 | There's so much in here, and I want to start right at the manifesto and go right to |
| 1:21.8 | the final words of your book. |
| 1:23.9 | When you say, the successes of the Great Migration now stand shoulder to shoulder with the suffering |
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