Pandemic Racism: The Wisconsin Primary, Disenfranchisement, and the Cost of Life
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🗓️ 8 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Milwaukee’s Health Commissioner, Dr. Jeanette Kowalik, discusses the Wisconsin Supreme Court's reckless disregard for public safety as they force the state to conduct in-person voting. Dr. Kowalik analyzes why some 70% of Covid-19 deaths in Milwaukee are African Americans and why the city has declared racism a public health crisis. She also analyses the expected consequences of Tuesday’s crowded voting lines at limited number of polling sites across Wisconsin.Â
Author and scholar Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of "How to Be Antiracist," discusses what the data tells us about race and coronavirus in America. He draws historical parallels between the Trump administration response and the Mississippi flood of 1927 and analyzes what it means for the U.S. to have to choose between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Fired Amazon worker Christian Smalls responds to the company’s smear campaign organized against him during a meeting attended by the wealthiest person in the world, Jeff Bezos.
And Intercepted listeners share their stories of struggle during the pandemic.
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| 0:00.0 | I also spoke just a few minutes ago with Vice President, |
| 0:04.0 | former Vice President Biden, who called. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Am I supposed to say something now? |
| 0:14.0 | We cannot let this... |
| 0:16.0 | We've never allowed any crisis from the Civil War straight |
| 0:20.0 | through to the pandemic in 17, all the way around 16. |
| 0:24.0 | We have never ever let our democracy |
| 0:28.0 | to take the second fiddle with it. |
| 0:30.0 | We can both have a democracy and elections |
| 0:32.0 | and at the same time correct the public health. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't really know what Joe Biden said. |
| 0:38.0 | I don't really care, but he's happy. |
| 0:40.0 | He's a very happy man. |
| 0:54.0 | This is intercepted. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Jeremy Scayhill coming to you from my basement in New York City. |
| 1:06.0 | And this is episode 125 of Intercepted. |
| 1:10.0 | There should not be a partisan issue. |
| 1:12.0 | This is not a political talking point. |
| 1:14.0 | The coronavirus does not discriminate. |
| 1:16.0 | We Republicans and Democrats conservatives are liberals. |
| 1:20.0 | This is a moment where we should all work together. |
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