kweliTV Founder DeShuna Spencer on Creating a Home for Black Content and Running a Streaming Service
The Bakari Sellers Podcast
The Ringer
4.8 • 966 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for tuning in to another dope episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Like today is a special episode for me guys because this is an episode where I learn a lot. |
| 0:19.6 | This is why we started the show because we get to uplift people that you may not know but |
| 0:23.3 | things that you need to pay attention to. So today I have the CEO and founder of |
| 0:28.5 | Quayley TV. It's a new streaming service. You listen you'll find it to be just as dope as I think it is. |
| 0:34.2 | Her name is Deshana Spencer. But before I get to Deshana, I wanted to talk about something |
| 0:39.8 | that's been bothering me. The most recent attempt by Republicans to undermine our democracy |
| 0:45.3 | and still an election. In case you missed it on Tuesday, the Wayne County |
| 0:49.4 | Michigan Board of Canvassers, the local election board of Michigan's largest county responsible for certifying the county's election results |
| 0:56.8 | sought to oppose the certification of the county's election results. You know the one where all the black folk live in Detroit. |
| 1:03.5 | They eventually realized they were being assholes and they reversed their decision and |
| 1:06.8 | the results were certified. |
| 1:09.0 | And just when there were theories floating around that the state's Republican-led legislature would place Trump-Fendly electors |
| 1:15.2 | in place to further undermine the results in Michigan by casting Michigan's Electoral College |
| 1:20.6 | votes for Trump. |
| 1:22.4 | Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shurkey killed the idea. |
| 1:26.5 | But what if State Senator Shurkey were like the Republicans on the Wayne County Board of |
| 1:31.3 | canvassers? And that's my issue. The Electoral on the Wayne County Board of Canversers. |
| 1:32.6 | And that's my issue. |
| 1:34.4 | The Electoral College should be abolished for a million reasons, |
| 1:37.2 | and this election is stress testing the guardrails on our democracy. |
| 1:41.2 | We'd always assume that if your state voted for a candidate and those election |
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