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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Ep 9 | Reparations NOW! The Debate for 2020

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

This time we're going to focus on a topic that's gaining momentum as we approach the 2020 election cycle: reparations. What are they all about? Are all the problems that minority groups face really caused by some sort of systemic oppression? And is inter-generational justice really a just practice? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

0:07.0

Today we're going to be talking about reparations and I can already taste the spice coming from

0:16.3

the comment section. I'm sure at least some of you guys when you click this video were probably

0:20.5

wondering to yourself why is she talking about reparations I mean yeah sure

0:24.8

there are some people on the fringe who are still advocating for them but this isn't an

0:29.3

actual conversation that the country's having well I hate I hate to break it to you, but you're wrong.

0:35.0

As the Democratic Party has moved further and further left,

0:38.0

the conversation surrounding reparations has become mainstream.

0:43.0

In an interview with NPR Democratic

0:44.8

Darling Kamala Harris was quoted as saying,

0:47.1

you can look at the issue of untreated and undiagnosed trauma.

0:50.3

African Americans have higher rates of heart disease and high blood pressure.

0:53.8

It is environmental. It is centuries of slavery which was a form of violence

0:58.1

where women were raped, where children were taken from their parents,

1:01.4

violence associated with slavery, and trauma, undiagnosed and untreated, leads to physiological outcomes.

1:07.6

She then continued that the term reparations, it means different things to different people,

1:11.8

but what I mean by it is that we need to study the effects of generations of discrimination

1:16.2

and institutional racism and determine what can be done in terms of intervention to correct course.

1:21.2

I'm pretty sure that the fact that heart disease rates have only

1:24.3

increased among African Americans the further we've gotten from slavery may speak to

1:29.0

the fact that it's more likely the obesity rates of black people affecting things rather than

1:34.9

epigenetics from slavery. But in any case Elizabeth Warren has expressed similar

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