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TRIGGERnometry

Coleman Hughes: "BLM Moment Led to Racist Policies"

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster and opinion columnist who specialises in issues relating to race, public policy and applied ethics. He is the host of the podcast 'Conversations with Coleman' and as a rapper and musician, performs under the name Coldxman. Join our exclusive TRIGGERnometry community on Locals! https://triggernometry.locals.com/ OR Support TRIGGERnometry Here: https://www.subscribestar.com/triggernometry https://www.patreon.com/triggerpod Bitcoin: bc1qm6vvhduc6s3rvy8u76sllmrfpynfv94qw8p8d5 Music by: Xentric | info@xentricapc.com | https://www.xentricapc.com/ Buy Merch Here: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/shop/​​​ Advertise on TRIGGERnometry: marketing@triggerpod.co.uk Join the Mailing List: https://www.triggerpod.co.uk/sign-up/​​​ Find TRIGGERnometry on Social Media:  https://twitter.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod​​​ https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod​​​ About TRIGGERnometry:  Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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