Don't Let It Go Unchallenged (with Stanley Nelson & Marco Williams)

Pod Save the People

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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DeRay, Sam, Kaya, and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week, including San Domingo, Oklahoma mayors, Seasame Street, and unmarked Indigenous graves. DeRay interviews directors Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams of the new documentary "Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre". DeRay: https://www.thedailybeast.com/chester-pierce-the-forgotten-tale-of-how-a-black-psychiatrist-helped-make-sesame-street Kaya: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/free-blacks-san-domingo-eastern-shore/2021/05/24/86ed2760-bca5-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html Sam: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/05/28/the-remains-of-215-children-have-been-found-now-indigenous-leaders-say-canada-must-help-find-the-rest-of-the-unmarked-graves.html De'Ara: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/_pages/ckp48zyrf00003voj4sbhjayn.html For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Duret and we're gonna post it to the people in this episode.
0:04.1	It's me, Sam Kai, and D.R. talking about the under reported news of the past week.
0:07.7	And then I sit down with director Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams of the history channels
0:11.5	new documentary, Tulsa Burning, the 1921 race massacre.
0:15.7	My advice for this week is to not let things go unchallenged that are in your space.
0:19.3	I was in a conversation the other day and somebody said something that was sexist.
0:23.6	They did.
0:24.6	And it was just like, I don't, I do not want to have a battle right now.
0:29.0	Like I really don't like I'm not interested in it.
0:31.0	I also cannot let you just say things like this and go unchallenged.
0:35.0	Like that's not cool.
0:36.6	In that moment, it was the middle of the night.
0:38.6	We were going somewhere and it's one of those things that like part of what it means
0:43.0	to show up and love people is to not let them get away with things that we know are wrong.
0:48.0	That's my advice for this week.
0:49.6	Let's go.
0:50.3	Welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People.
0:54.9	The Yama News today is from New York Magazine. It covers a really beautiful and insightful
1:00.2	piece on the mayors of Oklahoma's Black Towns.
1:04.3	And so as we celebrate the Centennial events around the 100 years since the 1921 massacre,
1:11.3	I really wanted to bring to light, you know, kind of the history and the richness of
1:15.8	history when it comes to Black folks, past and present actually in Oklahoma.
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