It’s not partisan to call out white supremacy
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This Monday, we talk about the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, over the weekend. It’s devastated the town’s predominantly Black community in multiple ways, including its central food supply. As the nation processes the tragedy, it’s critical to call it what is: a white supremacist act. We also discuss the baby formula shortage and the consequences of a Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance laws.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- Baby formula production is still several weeks out from Heather Long on Twitter
- One key chart on the baby formula shortage from Emily Peck on Twitter
- Third round of free COVID-19 test kits are available
- “Nearly half of Republicans agree with ‘great replacement theory’” from The Washington Post
- “It’s time to call white supremacy by its name” from Andscape
- “Court sides with Ted Cruz and strikes down campaign-finance restriction along ideological lines” from SCOTUSblog
- “The Supreme Court Makes Ted Cruz A Half-Million Dollars Richer” from HuffPost
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| 0:00.0 | I think it's time. |
| 0:02.0 | Did it? |
| 0:05.0 | The script does be a done. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh my goodness gracious me. |
| 0:12.0 | Everybody have a car, Rizzo. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart. |
| 0:14.0 | Making the day make sense is our jam. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you for just saying it. |
| 0:20.0 | Yes, I did just say that. |
| 0:21.0 | Thank you very much. |
| 0:22.0 | I was going to let it slide. |
| 0:23.0 | I really was. |
| 0:24.0 | You can have a jam. |
| 0:26.0 | We all have jams. |
| 0:27.0 | It's a matter of fact I got some lovely jams from our distribution team this week. |
| 0:31.0 | I was very pleased with it. |
| 0:34.0 | All right, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:36.0 | Thank you for joining us this Monday. |
| 0:38.0 | We're going to do the news as grim as it is. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to bring myself for Make Me Smile to be perfectly honest. |
| 0:46.0 | But let's see where we go. |
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