How Should We Talk About Whiteness?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This week, race was front and center at the confirmation hearing for Trump's attorney general nominee, Jeff Sessions. Cory Booker and the head of the NAACP testified that Sessions' history of alleged racist comments and his voting record suggested he could not fairly uphold the rights of all Americans. The Alabama senator fired back that he was not a racist and had fought to honor historical figures like Rosa Parks. The whole affair raised questions about how to discuss race, "whiteness," and issues of identity politics in the Trump era. Marc Lamont Hill is a professor at Morehouse College, a frequent commentator on CNN, and a host for BET News. His new book is Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. In the Spiel, Kellyanne Conway's war on the media. Today's sponsor: LifeAfter. What happens to our digital lives when we're gone? LifeAfter, a new series from GE Podcast Theater and Panoply, the creators of last year's award-winning The Message, explores these very questions. Listen and download LifeAfter wherever you find your podcasts. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at Slate.com/gistplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	One thing we can all agree on, no one wants another energy crisis.
0:07.1	But just talking about it won't make it go away.
0:09.7	Here's what we're actually doing at British Gas.
0:12.2	We're increasing the UK's gas storage so that we can help make energy prices more predictable
0:16.9	for everyone.
0:18.3	And so the 8 million homes and businesses who rely on us for their energy today can
0:22.9	rely on us tomorrow too.
0:25.4	That's enough talking.
0:26.4	Let's get on with the doing.
0:28.2	British Gas.
0:30.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
1:00.0	What?
1:01.0	Why would I be asked to pray at the moon as a secretary?
1:04.2	Oh, I thought you said howling.
1:05.9	You want me to run housing?
1:07.4	I could do that.
1:08.9	So even though democracy was indeed being shaped in the halls of Congress today and there
1:12.1	was a vote in the Wii small hours of the mourn that paved the way for repealing Obamacare
1:17.0	and replacing it with, I guess, arguments against Obamacare, I do need to go back to the
1:22.9	onslaught of developments yesterday.
1:26.0	The most important disclosure was the lack of disclosure that Trump would be embracing
1:30.6	once he assumes office.
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