Episode 706 | Labor Day | Bigotry is Bigotry | Jay-Z is Shucking and Jiving
The Benjamin Dixon Show
The Benjamin Dixon Show
4.6 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When last we met, our heroes had sacrificed.... okay nevermind. I can't possibly write this description in the format of a Star Wars episode... but I tried.
Labor Day 2019 and labor is as important today as ever before.
Check out this video of a woman who uses a new law in Mississippi to discriminate against the LGBTQ community and "Mixed Race" marriages.
Finally, it hurts me to have to say this: but Jay Z is a Stepin Fetchit-@$$-N*gga. Listen to this clip and let's discuss the real implications of blaming "angry young men" for their assassinations by the police.
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| 0:00.0 | The Benjamin Dixon Show is only possible with listener support. |
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| 0:10.2 | Progressive Army. |
| 0:11.3 | Welcome to the the Progressive Army. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon show. Today is Monday, September 2nd, 2019, also known as Labor Day. |
| 0:22.0 | First and foremost, I want to, well, you know, wish everyone a happy |
| 0:28.8 | Labor Day, but more specifically want to acknowledge the importance of the labor movement in world |
| 0:35.6 | history as well as an American history and the fact that we have decent |
| 0:41.2 | working, decent working environments because of the labor movement. |
| 0:51.2 | There are so many things that we have to thank the labor movement for that we take for granted now the eight hour work day |
| 1:00.4 | The five day work week the fact that there are no child laborers competing for our |
| 1:07.8 | jobs and not even the competition, it's so much as important as the abuse that child laborers suffered prior to the |
| 1:16.3 | labor movement. Collective organizing. All of the things that we honestly just take for granted today came because of the labor movement. |
| 1:28.0 | And just want to pause and acknowledge that and make sure that we keep that in our forefront because we take for granted |
| 1:35.6 | we think that the labor movement is not as necessary today as it was in the past and I would argue it's even more necessary now |
| 1:46.7 | because of the slow creep back towards fascism and the gilded age that are that so many in America are just willing to just plunge right back |
| 1:59.8 | all the way back to child labor. |
| 2:06.9 | You know, so I think it's just as important today as it ever has been. |
| 2:12.3 | I was watching, I'm going to be doing an interview on Wednesday with the author of the book The Family |
| 2:17.4 | and the Netflix series by the same name and one of the clips that I want to talk to him about is the impact |
| 2:25.8 | that this religious organization called the family had on the labor movement in the |
| 2:31.8 | 30s and how it became what it is today because of their |
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