"Please Excuse My Brevity" with Akim Aliu

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

News, Politics

4.9 • 56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Professional hockey player Akim Aliu tells his deeply personal immigrant story and discusses how he confronted and spoke out against racism in the world of professional hockey, using his voice to co-found the Hockey Diversity Alliance and make substantial change regarding racial justice and racial equity in the NHL. The MeidasTouch brothers also chat about Oprah's special with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry and backlash Jordy received regarding a tweet he made about the British Royal Family, the historic passage of the COVID relief bill, GQP members fleeing political office, a bizarre Lindsey Graham interview, read off the latest hate mail and more! This is an episode you won't want to miss. Thank you for making the MeidasTouch Podcast one of the top podcasts in all of North America! Please tell a friend, share this episode on social media, and rate us 5-stars in the Apple Podcasts app! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/meidastouch/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Midas Touch podcast.
0:07.0	Ben, my cell is here.
0:09.0	It's joined by my younger brother Brett and Jordi.
0:13.0	How you guys doing today?
0:15.0	Doing great.
0:16.0	It's going good.
0:19.0	I'm excited.
0:20.0	I have my client and long term friend, Akim Aliu,
0:25.0	on the show today.
0:26.0	Akim is going to talk about his fight to eradicate racism in the hockey
0:31.0	for those who haven't heard Akim Aliu's compelling story,
0:35.0	how he went and exposed asing when he was in his teens.
0:39.0	And then he was a victim of racism while he pursued a career in the NHL.
0:45.0	Akim was one of the top prospects in hockey.
0:49.0	He was banished from the league every time he played in the league.
0:53.0	He kicked ass, but Akim never fully got the shot that he deserved
0:58.0	because of his fight against racism last year.
1:01.0	Akim sent out a tweet heard round the hockey world where he exposed
1:06.0	some of his coaches from the past who engaged in racism and opened up
1:11.0	this broader conversation in the sport.
1:14.0	So I'm super excited to have Akim Aliu on.
1:17.0	Ben, would it be fair to say that Akim is the Colin Kaepernick
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