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This Wreckage

The Black Misleadership Class w/ Jason Myles & Pascal Robert

This Wreckage

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Jamie and Sean are joined by Jason Myles (@lafinabsolute) and Pascal Robert (@probert06) of the podcast and YouTube show This is Revolution (@TIRShowOakland) for a wide-ranging discussion of black politics, media, and organizing in the modern age.

Pascal's Newsweek article: https://www.newsweek.com/black-political-elite-serving-corporate-interests-misrepresenting-our-community-opinion-1652384

Jason's Medium article: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-anarchist-e918b00bb13

What The Negro Wants: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268019648/what-the-negro-wants/

Check out This Is Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qbDUXlCk5s&t=1s

Transcript

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0:00.0

The problem.

0:04.0

I was going to do it's that problem.

0:08.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:09.0

That was only volume one, but it was interesting.

0:12.0

There's multiple volumes.

0:13.2

Yeah there's gonna be three volumes in an Obama Grun-Rissa.

0:17.6

No, he's got a few pasta.

0:19.4

How many books does he have like three or four?

0:21.5

I mean he wrote again he starts with dreams from my father so he comes on with a book probably well how he was in his 30s when he wrote that that accomplished nothing and then you wrote audacity of hope

0:33.2

which was a neoliberal tomb I wish I had read that more carefully could I be less

0:37.3

disappointed in his presidency we've got the last one I I forgot the name of this.

0:44.0

I think it's called an American dream.

0:47.0

Something like that.

0:48.0

But, you know, I remember we had Bessner on the show we were talking about how all of this

0:56.1

literary churning out being done by the Obama team people accolades, it's a whole rehabilitative process.

1:04.9

They need to save the brand

1:07.1

because they got so much out of the brand.

1:09.6

And the brand is so easily recyclable,

1:11.8

whether it's Kamala Harris, whether it's

1:14.0

Andrew Yang, whether it's XYZ personal of color, sexual orientation, or

1:20.0

disability, you know, carrying the neoliberal flag, they need that brand because that's all they got.

1:26.0

You say that though, like I do not think that it's transferable to just whoever the establishment picks.

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