Do The Right Thing With A’shanti Gholar

Ellis Ever After

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.9 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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We got the power! Now we gotta get our facts straight when it comes to political participation. This week we are talking to A’shanti Gholar, the founder of The Brown Girls’ Guide to Politics (thebgguide.com) about how to exercise our voting rights and running for office. This episode is sponsored by MVMT Watches (www.mvmt.com/deadass), MyBookie (www.mybookie.ag code: DEADASS) and JustFab (www.justfab.com/deadass). See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	We're back. I'm Drew McEnery.
0:02.0	And I'm David Roth.
0:03.0	And coming in September 2020,
0:05.0	on NewSight we have built together called...
0:07.0	Defector.
0:09.0	Defector and we're gonna have a new podcast to go with it.
0:11.0	This very podcast, which has the name...
0:13.0	The Distraction.
0:14.0	It's out right now and it's available everywhere.
0:16.0	It's your podcast.
0:17.0	It's Stitcher, Spotify, Apple.
0:19.0	Go listen right now to the distraction everywhere.
0:21.0	It's out right now. Go listen.
0:23.0	See ya. Bye.
0:31.0	When I turned 18 and gained the right to vote,
0:33.0	I was that girl that did not vote
0:35.0	because I didn't think that accounted.
0:37.0	Deadass.
0:38.0	Well, when I started to make more money,
0:42.0	is when I started to question my political alliances.
0:46.0	And then when I moved back to Brooklyn,
0:48.0	is when I realized how wrong I was
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