Episode 9: Where Are We Now?
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance |
| 0:19.6 | and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams. |
| 0:27.0 | I've spent my entire life in business looking at the untapped potential in projects |
| 0:37.8 | and in people all over the world. That is now what I want to do for our country. |
| 0:45.0 | Tremendous potential. |
| 0:50.0 | I've gotten to know our country so well tremendous potential. |
| 0:54.0 | It's going to be a beautiful thing. |
| 0:56.0 | Every single American will have the opportunity to realize his or her fullest potential. |
| 1:04.1 | The forgotten men and women of our country |
| 1:07.8 | will be forgotten no longer. So here we are. We name this series the United States of anxiety because it seemed to |
| 1:28.9 | capture the fact that this election was more about emotional realities than about policies or ideologies. |
| 1:35.0 | There's a group of white Americans who feel powerfully wronged, and there's a burgeoning majority |
| 1:39.6 | of people of color and women and young people who are terrified about how that white |
| 1:43.9 | grievance will manifest itself. And now Donald Trump has been elected |
| 1:47.6 | president and he's been elected with an historic turnout of white voters |
| 1:51.4 | not just working-class white, but white voters of all classes. |
| 1:55.5 | He won white people by 10%. |
| 1:58.3 | So in the final episode of this podcast, we want to go back to the beginning of this political moment, this era from which |
| 2:04.1 | Trump's campaign emerged. But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot |
| 2:09.1 | afford to ignore right now. This is candidate Barack Obama back in March 2008 responding |
| 2:15.5 | to outrage over his pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. It's widely understood to be |
| 2:19.8 | one of his best speeches, perhaps one of the most notable speeches in the history of |
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