FACING A LEGACY OF RACISM
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 January 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Today, Professor Cornell William Brooks begins an hour-long discussion of the living legacy of racial inequality in today's America. Could a commission to consider reparations and solutions to voter suppression create a chance for our country to come to grips with the truth of its past and present? Can we ever right the long term consequences of the wealth stolen from people of color both before and since the end of outright slavery?
Plus Thom reads from "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" by Harriet A. Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Harbin here with you, our quote for the day from Malcolm X. |
| 0:19.0 | If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches there's no progress |
| 0:24.0 | and if you pull it out all the way that's not progress progress progress is healing the |
| 0:28.6 | wound that the blow made and they haven't even pulled the knife out much |
| 0:32.4 | less healed the wound they won't even pulled the knife out much less healed the wound. |
| 0:33.4 | They won't even admit the knife is in there. |
| 0:35.8 | On the line with us is the Cornell William Brooks, |
| 0:37.8 | professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice |
| 0:41.1 | at Harvard's Kennedy School, |
| 0:42.8 | former president and the CEO of the NAACP |
| 0:45.7 | and a fourth generation ordained minister |
| 0:49.2 | in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. |
| 0:51.8 | Professor Brooks, welcome to the program. |
| 0:54.1 | It's good to be with you. |
| 0:55.2 | How are you? |
| 0:55.9 | I am great. |
| 0:56.7 | Thanks so much for joining us today. |
| 0:58.3 | There's been this proposed legislation in the House, |
| 1:00.7 | has Resolution 40, as I recall, to put together a commission to |
| 1:04.4 | examine what reparations would look like, how they should happen, if they should |
| 1:09.2 | happen, all this kind of stuff, and the Republicans are fighting this, you got |
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