How to Stop a Racist Politician

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🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In 1990, David Duke ran for Senate in Louisiana, appalling the Republican establishment and freaking out the Democratic consultant-class. Duke didn’t win -- but he did well enough to feel emboldened, and a year later he launched a campaign for Louisiana governor. The coalition that formed to defeat Duke has some advice for anyone trying to squelch racist policies and rhetoric today. Guest: Tim J. Wise, author of the books White Like Me: Reflections on Race From a Privileged Son and Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Donald Trump might have officially launched his 2020 campaign and an Orlando Maguaralli
0:09.3	last month.
0:10.8	But it didn't really feel real to me until last week.
0:15.2	That's when Trump went all in on racism as a campaign strategy.
0:21.9	Representative Ilhan Omar.
0:27.6	If you're not happy here, then you can leave.
0:31.1	You lift David Duke's words and Donald Trump's words and I guarantee you you can put them
0:36.4	together and you can find David Duke tweets or quotes it sounds just like what Donald
0:41.8	Trump's been saying the past couple of days.
0:49.5	It turns out it wasn't just the talking heads on MSNBC thinking that Donald Trump was
0:54.0	sounding awful lot like a former grand wizard of the KKK.
0:58.8	It was a guy named Tim Wise too.
1:01.0	I mean, I'm an anti-racism educator and author and that's about the only way that I can
1:06.1	describe it.
1:07.1	Back in the early 90s, Tim thought he might get into political consulting.
1:11.3	His first job was working against David Duke's campaigns for Senate and governor in Louisiana.
1:17.3	I was really young.
1:18.3	I mean, I had just come out of college and I happened to be at Tulane in New Orleans.
1:23.2	So I was in the right place at the right time at the very right moment.
1:26.7	My work in politics literally is limited to the anti-Duke work essentially in 90 and 91.
1:33.8	And it was that that actually made me realize I needed to be doing anti-racism work full
1:39.0	time rather than sort of political consulting.
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