Red Power Hour - The banality of colonial evil

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The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Red Power Hour is back! Co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena survey the burning tirefire of US imperial decline and ask the perennial question, what is even left to say?

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0:00.0	One of the principal barriers to assimilation seems to be the natural tendency of white people
0:09.0	to violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment.
0:14.0	The very foundation of their way of life, death and sacrifice.
0:20.0	White people, with almost missionary zeal, have done their best to export death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal
0:22.6	have done their best to export death and sacrifice
0:25.6	for every corner of the world.
0:29.6	We are not American.
0:32.6	We are not American.
0:34.6	We are not American.
0:36.6	We are not American. We are not American dead You're not American. You're not American. We're not
0:39.3	than dead.
0:40.3	We're better red than death.
0:43.3	Yeah.
0:44.3	Yeah.
0:45.3	Oh!
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.3	Well, it's happening.
0:51.3	We're recording.
0:52.3	We'll explain why. We both had this look on our face when our producer, Sina, just
0:59.5	hit record.
1:00.5	Hello there.
1:01.5	But hi, everyone.
	...

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