Roses from Concrete
democracy-ish
Mary Trump Media
4.8 • 774 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What happens when speaking truth to power gets you cancelled?!? What happens when sharing your experience of oppression and white supremacy get you silenced?!? We are living at the breaking point of all we have believed to be true. On today's episode Wajahat shared an incredibly infuriating situation that happened to him while being invited as a guest speaker at a company during AAPI month and Danielle reflects on what Pride month means in this moment. This one is juicy folks! Buckle up.
Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali
Executive Producer: Adell Coleman
Senior Producer: Quinton Hill
Distributor: DCP Entertainment
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody. |
| 0:13.8 | And I'm with Jahat Ali. |
| 0:15.6 | So, Woj, anything interesting happened to you over the course of this week that we should know about? |
| 0:23.5 | So as we're recording this on the last day of AAPI Heritage Month, yay Asians, I was invited |
| 0:30.8 | by, let's just say a tech company or an emerging tech company by their DEI staff that signs for diversity, equity, |
| 0:39.2 | and inclusivity to give, you know, one of these talks during AAPI month. I've given several |
| 0:43.4 | this. So, you know, usual Zoom talk about 300 people showed up, very nice audience. And, you know, |
| 0:52.7 | beforehand had a half hour conversation. They knew me, obviously researched me. And then, I had a half-hour conversation. |
| 0:54.5 | They knew me, |
| 0:55.1 | obviously researched me. |
| 0:56.8 | And then like a week before the talk, |
| 0:58.8 | I got this email, |
| 0:59.9 | can you give an outline, |
| 1:01.1 | which I thought was very weird. |
| 1:02.4 | I'm like, interesting. |
| 1:03.3 | No one's really asked me for an outline |
| 1:05.3 | after spending 30 minutes with me. |
| 1:07.1 | And then they gave the talk a very anodyne, |
| 1:09.5 | like tepid name. |
| 1:10.5 | Like, I want to talk about |
| 1:12.0 | using your challenges to find success. I'm like, okay, sure, given that talk before. So we |
| 1:20.3 | start off with the talk. I give them the outline, no problem. And, you know, like SNL, I do a cold |
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