Let’s talk about privilege in the workplace

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned after backlash following controversial testimony to Congress and accusations of plagiarism. We’ll get into Gay’s exit and what it says about privilege in the workplace. And, why Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to tell the White House about his hospitalization is a big deal. Plus, the lore behind John Coltrane’s cover of “My Favorite Things” is making us smile.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Opinion | Former Harvard President Claudine Gay: This Is About More Than My Mistakes” from The New York Times

- “Claudine Gay’s Harvard resignation proves Black women’s leadership is still political” from 19th News

- “The Pentagon adds new details about Austin’s secretive hospital stay and the delay in telling Biden” from AP News

- “How John Coltrane’s ‘My Favorite Things’ Changed American Music” from Smithsonian Magazine

- “Elon Musk Isn’t Getting Enough Sleep” from Bloomberg

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0:00.0	Is everybody here? Are we good?
0:02.0	Screw them, you're here, I'm here, Drew's here.
0:04.0	What do we care?
0:05.0	All right, let's do it then.
0:07.0	Why change now, Kimberly, that's what I want to know.
0:09.0	Why change now?
0:11.0	New Year one.
0:12.0	Start the New Year one, new year off.
0:13.0	Bold.
0:14.0	Everybody I'm Kai Rizdall,
0:16.0	welcome back to Make Me Smart.
0:17.0	Where we make today makes sense.
0:19.0	And I'm Kimberly Adams.
0:21.0	Thank you everybody for joining us on this Monday January the 8th.
0:25.1	It's our first episode of 2024 and happy new year to everybody and you specifically, Kai, because I can see you.
0:32.1	And you too. And you too.
0:33.0	Yes, one does wonder who else is out there participating in this podcast.
0:37.0	Anyway, we will do what we always do, some news, some smiles, and then get on our merry way.
0:44.0	What do you got, Kimberly Adams?
0:46.1	I have been watching, as have most of the other black women in my life,
0:51.2	what's been unfolding with Claudine Gay in her resignation at Harvard and
0:56.2	there's been a lot written about how all that went down I won't pile on to it too much more
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