Mitch Landrieu says when it comes to race, 'people are closing their eyes to basic history'
Capehart
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jonathan Capehart and this is Cape Up. |
| 0:07.5 | Mitch Landrew is the former mayor of New Orleans, the former lieutenant governor of Louisiana, |
| 0:12.6 | and one of the most outspoken white southern voices on race in the United States. |
| 0:17.3 | He came to the podcast in 2017 after he succeeded in removing the last of four Confederate monuments |
| 0:24.2 | in New Orleans. |
| 0:25.4 | Now, four years later, our nation is in a different and more perilous place when it comes to race, |
| 0:31.8 | as our true history is simultaneously being debated and openly dismissed. |
| 0:36.9 | And you see the pushback now with people just completely closing their ears in the eyes |
| 0:41.4 | just the basic history. |
| 0:43.0 | We cover a lot of ground here including police reform, voting rights, |
| 0:47.0 | and what he would say to Senator Joe Manchin about the filibuster. |
| 0:50.7 | Here at all, right now. |
| 0:55.2 | Mitch Landrew, welcome back to the podcast. |
| 1:09.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:12.0 | In a continuation of a conversation, you and I have been having for now years and that |
| 1:18.2 | is our country race, our country's desperate need for not only racial reckoning, |
| 1:26.2 | but also reconciliation. |
| 1:28.7 | And I would just love for you to just start out by giving your assessment |
| 1:34.0 | on where we are as a nation right now. |
| 1:38.1 | Well, I think that the word that comes to mind immediately is sobering. |
| 1:42.2 | And as you said in your question about this continuing conversation that we've been having, |
| 1:49.4 | it occurs to me that this is a conversation that the country's been having with itself, |
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