Don’t Forget Your Purpose
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Sam, Brittany and Clint are on for the news, and Andy Slavitt joins for another health care update. Former US Secretary of the Navy under Obama, Ray Mabus, joins DeRay to talk about the joint chiefs’ reaction to Trump’s transgender ban by tweet, climate change as a national security issue, and our international reputation. DeRay sits down with rap artist Vic Mensa to talk about misogyny, hypermasculinity, therapy, Malcolm X and police violence, all related to Vic’s new album, The Autobiography.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Duray and welcome to Potsay of the People. |
| 0:05.0 | Join today by Vic Mensa, an incredible rapper from Chicago, |
| 0:09.0 | talking about his art and activism. |
| 0:11.0 | We also have Secretary Mavis, the former Secretary of the Navy, |
| 0:14.0 | who served from 2009 to 2017. |
| 0:17.0 | And then we have a moment with Andy Slavitt, |
| 0:19.0 | the former head of Obamacare, to give us an update |
| 0:21.0 | about what happened last week. |
| 0:23.0 | And as usual, it's the news with me, Brittany, Clint, and Sam. |
| 0:27.0 | Before we jump in, you know, I was talking to somebody the other day, |
| 0:30.0 | and they were like, Duray, this is really complicated, this work, |
| 0:33.0 | and how do you know what to focus on. |
| 0:35.0 | And I was reminded in that moment that this is often about simple truths. |
| 0:39.0 | When we think about the police and police violence, |
| 0:42.0 | we know that the truth is that Mike Brown should be alive today, |
| 0:44.0 | that Rikia and Iana and John and Tamir and Maya should be alive today. |
| 0:49.0 | That's a simple truth. |
| 0:51.0 | We think about healthcare. |
| 0:52.0 | We know that people deserve access to healthcare, simple truth. |
| 0:56.0 | When we think about education, we know that kids deserve a good education. |
| 1:01.0 | They should have equal access, that there should be equity, |
| 1:04.0 | with regard to how resources are distributed. |
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