Melina Abdullah Talks Black Lives Matter, Defunding Police, And Voting

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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In this episode of 'People's Party,' Talib Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter and professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles -- Melina Abdullah The deeply insightful conversation begins with Melina, Jasmin, and Talib discussing her Ted Talk 'Resistance as the New Normal' speech. They also reflect on the story of MarShawn McCarrel, expand on the racial wealth gap in America and how to correct it, as well as the stock market and how it perpetuates systematic racism. They explore Melina's upbringing in East Oakland and that community's rich legacy of protesting, as well as discuss the meaning of 'Pan-Africanism'. Melina responds to those accusing her of being a Marxist, they talk about the liberal debate of class vs. race discrimination, and Melina illustrates how shows like 'Good Trouble' that she has appeared in have been so important to the cause, picking up where mainstream media has failed.

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0:34.1	Tyler quality this is another wonderful fantastic edition of the world's best podcast the people's party and as usual and as always
0:41.4	I got my wonderful
0:42.9	Intelligent lovely talented co-host Jasmine Lee in the house with me holding down the fort. What's up Jasmine?
0:49.7	How you doing? You know what I'm doing amazing. I don't know when this is coming out, but it's my birthday weekend
0:54.9	So I'm having a blast well guess what Jasmine your birthday weekend is also very close to my
0:59.9	Birthday weekend so shout out to all the Libres in the house. It's a big Libra season big Libra energy
1:05.6	I'm feeling good. I just got my my Fisher COVID test. Yeah, so I
1:10.2	Just ran in here. I'm good at least for now until until I run into some other people out there in this pandemic world that we are now living in
1:18.7	But yeah Jasmine I'm excited about today's guest. I think we're gonna have one wonderful conversations. How's the baby?
1:24.8	She's doing well eating as usual. Okay
1:27.8	Good, good, good, good. My baby doing the same thing. Okay, so today our guest is a legend in the activism
1:35.5	academic political organizing space
1:38.6	She is the department chair for Pan African Studies at Cal State Los Angeles
1:43.4	One of the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter Los Angeles chapter
1:47.4	You might have seen her and the documentary the 13th where she spoke about criminal justice reform one of my favorite subjects
1:54.7	Or on the show good trouble where she's a consultant and a character on screen. She also has a very famous TED talk
2:03.2	Where with the subtitle that I personally love resistance is the new normal. That's one of my favorite things I've heard recently
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