Is The Trump Administration Full of Racists?

Inside the Hive

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🗓️ 20 April 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Is Trump making it more difficult to be African American in the U.S.? Does Ben Carson secretly dislike people of color? Is Donald Trump a true racist? Jamil Smith, a writer for The New Republic, Time, and now, Rolling Stone, joins us to explain why, 155 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, black men are arrested for just sitting in Starbucks coffee shop, why President Obama could have done more to speak out against these issues, and why we’re all so sick and tired of hearing about James Comey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. So we have talked about a lot of different topics on this show recently from Facebook to artificial intelligence, politics to culture, even aliens.
0:14.5	But what we haven't discussed yet is race in America.
0:18.1	Well that's going to change this week.
0:19.9	I'm really excited to welcome Jamil Smith to the show.
0:22.8	Jamil is an opinion writer for Rolling Stone.
0:25.6	He was formerly a reporter for MTV News, the New Republic.
0:29.0	He's worked at MSNBC, CNN, you name it.
0:32.0	And he recently wrote the cover story for Time magazine on The Black Panther.
0:36.7	He's going to join us today to talk about this very topic around race in this country,
0:40.8	where it's okay and safe to be a black person in America and not be arrested or shot
0:45.3	and why he thinks that Ben Carson who is African American might be the most racist
0:50.7	person in the Trump administration.
0:55.0	All right, well, thanks for joining us this week on Inside the Hive.
0:59.0	Appreciate it.
1:00.0	The last time I saw you, we were on Love It or Leave It Together, right?
1:04.0	Yes, in Santa Monica.
1:05.0	And I was trying to be funny and was not very good at it and you were a lot funnier.
1:09.0	Well, we were on a comedy stage.
1:10.0	So it was natural for us to try.
1:12.0	It was natural for us to try. It was natural for us to try.
1:14.0	So lots to talk about.
1:17.0	I wanted to start with an article that you wrote this week
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