The Fight for Equality With Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of ‘The Young Turks’ (Ep. 12)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Larry Wilmore touches on the recent flooding in Houston and the problem with using language like "an act of God" in regard to extreme weather (0:30). Later, Larry sits down with Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of ‘The Young Turks’ to discuss wealth inequality and the government’s role in creating opportunity (10:00), political messaging, as well as Trump and the current political landscape (41:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Black on the Air.
0:09.7	I am Larry one more, Larry one more, Black on the Air.
0:13.4	That title always tickles me, I know, I don't know why.
0:16.1	I want to thank everybody for joining the podcast, for sharing it with your friends.
0:20.0	You guys have been great spreading the word, keep spreading that word.
0:23.4	Larry one more black on the air, part of the Ringer podcast network over here.
0:28.5	It's so weird that I would be in a sports, basically a sports oriented podcast network.
0:34.1	But as you guys know, I love sports, so it really fits for me.
0:36.8	Even though I don't talk about it that much.
0:39.0	It's a tough day today, I'm taping this on Wednesday, August 30th if you're listening.
0:44.5	And we're going through the devastation that's happening in Texas right now, especially
0:49.1	the flooding in Houston and some of the outlying areas.
0:53.5	And let me just start off by saying, man, my heart really goes out to everybody there.
0:58.4	We've got some prayers and all those things.
1:00.9	And just Texas, we're looking out for you right now.
1:04.2	I mean, I'm so inspired by all the people that are, it's inspiring, man.
1:09.9	When you see people helping out in all the different types of ways, whether it's raising
1:13.6	money online or you see on, I saw this guy on TV, he had a furniture shop.
1:18.3	And he just let people come into his furniture shop.
1:20.2	He didn't care they were wet and dirty.
1:21.8	He didn't matter.
1:23.6	Kids were like jumping on the mattress.
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