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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Ibram X Kendi

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

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4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Author, professor, and historian Ibram X Kendi joins Jameela this week to discuss what it currently feels like to be a black man in America, his journey of discovering his own racism, why it is so important to vote, his continual growth in better supporting black women and black trans people, and why he still has hope. Be Antiracist, a workbook for readers as they continue their ongoing work to be antiracist is available now. Be Antiracist - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667140/be-antiracist-by-ibram-x-kendi/

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jameeda Jamil.

0:03.8

Are you okay? Are you alright?

0:07.2

I don't know if I am, because this is getting nuts.

0:10.8

And there's so much going on in the new cycle and so many terrifying things are being

0:15.0

snuck in, seeing more stuff about pro life.

0:18.8

I think Donald Trump this week tweeted like pro life, vote.

0:24.3

If you are pro life, then you will vote for the people that want to help the lives of those

0:32.6

already living. And so I feel very strongly about the fact that we accept that pro life

0:39.2

doesn't just apply to fetuses. It applies to immigrants. It applies to those who need health care.

0:46.0

It applies to trans people. It applies to black people. People of colour.

0:51.6

That is what pro life actually means. I feel like a lot of what we hear is pro birth.

0:59.6

And we covered this a lot last week on Glorious Dynames episode, which was so remarkable.

1:04.3

And thank you so much for the ways in which you've reached out. I really love the fact that

1:08.1

you guys enjoyed it. And you also enjoyed hearing two very outspoken and firm feminist disagree

1:14.8

with each other very kindly and respectfully, but still never necessarily backing down.

1:22.5

I think we need more of that discourse and more of proof that women are capable of

1:28.4

disagreement without it being like a bitchy cat fight or anyone crying or ending up in a 15-year

1:34.0

grudge. Big love to Glorious Dyname for everything that she told us last week. But I just

1:40.4

having just gone through with that episode and then seeing what's happening in the news cycle

1:44.5

this week has just been honest to me. Anyway, so that's fucked. Be very careful about not listening

1:51.5

to people who are saying that you shouldn't vote. You should vote. I understand that the previous

1:55.5

system is so far from perfect, but at least it's a system. If we don't vote now, there will be

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