RPH vs. Sinners (2025) w/ Jodi Byrd (Part 1)
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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RPH is back! Indigenous scholar Jodi Byrd joins co-hosts Melanie Yazzie and Elena Ortiz for another episode on Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025)
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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. You're not American. |
| 0:38.2 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:40.0 | Better red than dead. |
| 0:42.0 | Better red than death. |
| 0:45.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:45.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:49.5 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:50.8 | This is Melanie Yazi, co-host of Red Power Hour. |
| 0:53.4 | We're back with another episode. |
| 0:55.0 | We have a special guest. We've actually been trying to get this guest on our show for almost a year now to talk about this. |
| 1:03.0 | We're going to talk about something familiar that we have spoken about last year in an episode, but in light of what kind of happened at the Oscars at the Academy Awards this year, |
| 1:12.8 | we wanted to talk about this again. But before we do so, I'm going to hand it off to Elena |
| 1:17.3 | to introduce herself and then our guest. Hi, I'm Elena Ortiz calling in from Ogaphoge Owinge, |
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