Learning Outside The Colorless Bubble (with Angie Thomas and Revida Rahman)

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Today Jo Carducci is filling in for Rachel Vindman. In this episode, Jo, Jasmine, and Amanda chat about how right-wing extremists are trying to distract us and exhaust us. Whether it’s refusing to focus on anything but the trans identity of the recent school shooter in Nashville, or pretending that a children’s book about Rosa Parks is “pushing Critical Race Theory on kids,” we can’t let our focus waver from the things that really matter: standing up for equity in our schools and communities....

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Martin Luther King did it. Good on him.
0:09.0	Obama was elected. We're done.
0:12.0	We fixed it.
0:13.0	Exactly.
0:14.0	Fixed it.
0:15.0	And you're like, oh, we didn't fix it.
0:19.0	We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.
0:26.0	Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.
0:33.1	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein. And I'm Joe Carducci and for Rachel Vindman.
0:40.2	And you're listening to The Suburban Women Problem. So right wing extremists are trying to distract us and frankly exhaust us. I think we all know that, but it's worth reminding ourselves.
0:52.3	It happened last week after the horrible school shooting in
0:55.8	Nashville. The right wing has been obsessed with the fact that in this one instance, the shooter was
1:02.2	trans, as if that should keep us from talking about gun control. Or like how they built up
1:08.6	critical race theory as a boogeyman to distract us from their book
1:12.2	bans and bans on teaching black history. So today, I'm so excited to share my interview with
1:18.4	Angie Thomas. She's the author of the frequently banned book, The Hate You Give, which is also a really
1:23.9	good movie. And before that, we'll be joined by Rivita Rockman, a mom in Tennessee
1:29.2	who founded One Will Co, an organization that supports students of color. But before we get to all of
1:36.2	that, how are y'all doing? Oh, what should we start with? There's always so much. I know. It's so much
1:42.5	going on. I know. Oh, man. I mean, the Nashville shooting is so much. I know. It's so much going on. I know.
1:45.2	Oh, man.
1:48.6	I mean, the Nashville shooting is so terrible.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Red Wine & Blue, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Red Wine & Blue and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.