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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Do Black people have an attitude problem about the COVID-19 vaccine? Dr. Rhea Boyd says absolutely not—the problem is lack of access to the vaccine and to real information. So she's launched BetweenUsAboutUs, a national campaign with Black doctors, scientists, and health care professionals (and a certain podcast host), to give Black communities the resources they need to make informed choices and get vaccinated.
Then Kamau and Hari have the conversation that every politically engaged basketball fan dreams of with Marc J. Spears, Senior NBA writer for The Undefeated. Hear the full story of how the league shut down after the police killing of Jacob Blake, the underappreciated impact NBA players had on the 2020 election, and what it will take for Becky Hammon to get a real shot as the league's first female head coach. Marc also attempts to convert our resident Knicks fan to the Nets. It doesn't work.
Plus: Hari's anticolonialist recap of Oprah's takedown of the British royal family.
Find our guests:
Dr. Rhea Boyd (@RheaBoydMD) https://rheaboyd.com
Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) https://theundefeated.com
Mentioned in the show:
BetweenUsAboutUs https://www.betweenusaboutus.org
NYT Opinion: Black People Need Better Vaccine Access, Not Better Vaccine Attitudes https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opinion/us-covid-black-people.html
Find us:
Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) http://www.harikondabolu.com/
W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) http://www.wkamaubell.com/
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0:00.0 | Meghan Markle, I absolutely love you. If you're listening to this, we love you here. |
0:03.5 | Please stay here. Please stay in California. Do you need a pediatrician? |
0:09.9 | Please do just me. |
0:11.6 | From Topic Studios and WarnerMedia Podcast Network, this is politically reactive. |
0:16.5 | I'm Debbie Kamalbeau. |
0:17.9 | And I'm Harry Kunderbolo and I hold Grudgesbub. I was angry about the British well before the Meghan |
0:24.0 | Markle interview with Oprah. We're two friends in stand-up comics and dads trying to make sense of |
0:29.2 | American politics. |
0:30.5 | Look, Kamal, what is politics really? |
0:34.0 | Where are you going with this? |
0:35.4 | I mean, shouldn't a modern expansive definition of politics include, I don't know, say, |
0:40.4 | basketball? Come on, man, I want to talk about sports. I don't care if we lose friends. |
0:45.9 | I want to talk about sports. |
0:47.5 | Then we can definitely talk about the NBA because there's a lot of political activity in and |
0:51.8 | around that league. That's where I'm talking about. We're talking basketball. |
0:55.6 | And we're going to be talking about basketball with Mark J. Spears, my friend, |
0:59.8 | frequent appear on ESPN and senior NBA writer for the undefeated. He's so much about that NBA life |
1:06.1 | that when players and coaches went into the bubble in Orlando last year, Mark did too. |
1:10.4 | We were so insulated in there, I don't think they realized how much of an impact they were having |
1:15.7 | on the outside. He was also at Sunday's NBA All-Star Game. A game a lot of people thought |
1:21.0 | shouldn't even happen this season. |
1:22.9 | We'll talk to Mark about how the NBA has become the one major sports league where speaking out |
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