Coleman Hughes: "BLM Moment Led to Racist Policies"
TRIGGERnometry
Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I have a dream speech, it gives me goosebumps to this day and I take that ethic very seriously, |
| 0:06.8 | and when I see it violated, it makes me angry and it makes me sad. |
| 0:12.8 | In the midst of a revolution, it's like there's a frenzy. When the fog clears, |
| 0:20.4 | you can see all the things that were done that were wrong, that were deeply wrong. |
| 0:26.0 | There was $4 billion of aid for farmers with debt, only if you were not white. |
| 0:33.7 | If you're a white restaurant owner or a white struggling farmer that loses their farm in the context |
| 0:40.9 | of a recession, you are never going to forgive that you were not treated on the basis of need, |
| 0:47.3 | but you were treated on the basis of race. Just like black people in America have not forgotten, |
| 0:53.2 | redlining Jim Crow. Where's this going? Well, I don't know, that depends a lot on |
| 1:00.3 | the actions and the bravery of millions of individuals, many of whom will be watching this video. |
| 1:08.4 | Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Trigonometry on the road from the USA. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm Francis Foster. I'm Constantin Kissen. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations |
| 1:32.4 | with fascinating people. Brilliant guest and returning to the show now in person for the first time. |
| 1:38.9 | He is the writer and musician and podcaster. Coleman, he's welcome to Trigonometry. |
| 1:43.6 | Thank you for having me again. It's great to see you. We are actually by accident, |
| 1:48.0 | got a chance to hang out last night. We went to see a show at the Comedy Seller, |
| 1:51.8 | had a chance to channel a little bit, which is great because the last time we had you on the show, |
| 1:56.8 | it was some of 2020, it was the peak of the BLM, racial conversation that we had at the time. |
| 2:03.3 | And we got a load of your ideas and thoughts about the world. But one of the things we're |
| 2:08.4 | starting to find is people who talk about the stuff that you talk about and that we talk about it |
| 2:12.8 | and who are willing, like you, to actually be public about it and to speak out about it and |
| 2:18.5 | risk things. Usually there's like a reason or a set of reasons why they do this. It doesn't just |
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