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Pod Save the People

Take Your Hand Off (with Alua Arthur)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.78.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, and Sam dive into the underreported news of the week, including Maryland police oversight, California child care, college admission essays, and Derek Chauvin's trial. Netta Elzie gives an update on what's happening with the nationwide protests. DeRay interviews Alua Arthur about what it takes to be a death doula. DeRay: https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/essay-content-strongly-related-household-income-and-sat-scores-evidence-60000-undergraduate-applications Kaya: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/04/california-teachers-childcare-coronavirus-478972 Sam: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/hogan-vetoes-police-accountibility/2021/04/09/c0ac4096-9967-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html Teaching Study: https://hechingerreport.org/white-and-female-teachers-show-racial-bias-in-evaluating-second-grade-writing/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/podsavethepeople

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, this is Durey and we're gonna post it to people in this episode

0:04.2

It's me, Sam and Kaya covering the news that goes under a port that you might not have heard of and that it comes on to give us

0:10.3

Update about what's happening with the protest then I sit down with a law author to learn more about what it takes to be a death doula

0:16.2

I learned so much in this conversation. I wish we could do a part two tomorrow just because there's even more to talk about

0:22.6

Now my advice for this week is take your hand off

0:24.9

That sometimes we are pressing on things and we are trying to massage a situation where karma is actually the only thing to come through

0:34.1

And we up here trying to tip the scales and move the thing and it's not our business

0:37.9

So some of the stuff you got to take your hand off. I'm telling that to myself right now

0:41.5

Do I take your hand off of this?

0:42.8

So take your hand off of some of this stuff let it play out like karma do its thing or let the universe whatever you want to call it

0:49.3

You messing with it might only make it worse

0:51.5

That's not everything, but you know this stuff that you need to take hand off. Let's go

0:56.0

There's another fine week here on the pod

0:58.9

I'm Dure at D.I. While on Twitter. I'm Kaya Henderson at Henderson Kaya on Twitter

1:04.0

And I'm Samson Youngaway at Sam's way on Twitter. Y'all we are it's always good to be back at D.R

1:09.4

Is not with us for the recording, but the R is always a part of the crew last week was Easter so we didn't have a conversation

1:15.4

Them so we haven't talked about the trial of Derek Chauvin, you know, it's interesting and so many ways this feels to me like when I watched

1:23.1

The trial the Zimmerman trial like I remember being tuned in I remember being at work

1:28.9

And like we would take breaks to watch some of it and talk about it and as much as I've tried to stay away from this

1:33.4

I haven't been able to like I've watched more of this than I thought I would even though I know

1:39.1

Like I don't have any questions. I know they killed George Floyd

1:42.0

I have no there's nothing to think it's a don't this trial that will change anything out of me true and yet

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