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From Topic Studios and WarnerMedia Podcast Network, this is politically reactive.

I'm Debbie Kamau-Belle and I'm doing the opening a little bit bigger because I heard it last week and I sounded sad.

Man, I'm glad you're standing up for yourself and you're trying to make an imprint right off the top.

And I'm Harry Kunderbola.

We're two friends in stand-up comics and dads trying to make sense of American politics.

And that's what we're bringing back guests like Desmond Mead who led the fight to re-enfranchise people with past felony convictions in Florida.

Voting is a difference between life and death and we are experiencing things right now that's a direct result of our level of voter participation.

The fight for voting rights is happening all over the country and Republican-led states including Florida, Georgia and Arizona.

Florida is considering new legislation to make voting harder and when states do that, they tend to be states led by Republicans

and they tend to want to make the voting harder on the black and brown folks and Florida is no different.

I'm looking at you, Rhonda Santas. Actually, I really don't like looking at you, Rhonda Santas.

That's why Desmond has been doing the real work of uprooting white supremacy.

Just the kind of work Soledad O'Brien is highlighting in her new series on BET Disrupt and Dismental.

Professional segue from Harry Kunderbola.

Thank you. Ever practice.

Soledad O'Brien has been an anchor and correspondent for many of the biggest alphabet networks in BC, MSNBC, HBO, network called CNN.

Soledad has always made the inequalities of race and class central to her reporting.

But now she only wants to reveal the realities of structural racism, but she wants to talk about how we rip it up and create a whole new system.

She's calling out some of her old employers and perhaps one of our current employers for their role in spreading disinformation and encouraging extremism.

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