Soledad O’Brien Is Calling It Like It Is

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In our election special—recorded the day after election day—host Brittany Packnett Cunningham talks to award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien about the big question this week: How did this election get so close? They go deep into the underpinnings of media racism, O’Brien tells a few tales from her own career—and we share an all-election edition of Untrending news. You can learn more about the organizations Brittany shouts out below: NAACP legal defense fund https://www.naacpldf.org/ The Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law https://lawyerscommittee.org/ Fair Fight https://fairfight.com/ Black Voters Matter https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.2	L y-s-t or download. Oh, baby, it's Brittany.
0:56.0	Ooh, baby, it has been a week.
0:59.0	Can I be honest with y'all? I mean, we're family, right?
1:01.0	The closeness of this election is troubling even if it was to be expected.
1:09.0	In 2016 I started the night positive that I'd be witnessing history.
1:14.0	But by the end of the night I was crying into a pillow between
1:17.8	gulps of champagne straight from the bottle.
1:21.0	This time Reggie was tossing back to Kila and I was searching Twitter for any bright spot I could find.
1:27.0	And I found plenty, but I still went to bed with too much of that very familiar dread in the pit of my stomach. I mean
1:36.2	after four plus years of outright lies and a quarter of a million people dead from
1:41.8	COVID-19 I prayed that even just that was enough to make
1:47.0	this election a blowout. That's what we've been organizing for. That's not where this country is. No matter the outcome we
1:56.5	have to deal with reality. White supremacy is still far too appealing and
2:01.6	suppression is far too appealing and suppression is far too pervasive.
2:04.8	Both are branches of the same tree.
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