The Power of Accountability with Dr. Albert Samuels
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 8 November 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
It's not news that white folks in power have manipulated and weaponized the interests of Black people to their benefit. It's why oftentimes we see Black folks electing other Black folks into office. But all skin folk ain't kinfolk. It's why knowing the motives and actions of those Black people we elected into office is so important. It's why we have to hold our people accountable. Today Dr. Albert Samuels, an author, elections analyst, and a professor of political science, shares his perspective on what this looks like, and how exactly we can use accountability to better our community.
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| 0:43.7 | There's a passage in Octavia Butler's fictional novel, Parable of the Talents, that feels |
| 0:49.6 | like a good place to kick off today's episode. |
| 0:52.8 | It goes, in small communities, people are more accountable to one another. |
| 0:59.2 | Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who |
| 1:05.1 | sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have |
| 1:11.7 | any business doing what you're doing. |
| 1:16.8 | I'm Sid from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 1:23.4 | Now this is the belief of a fictional character, and she presents an interesting idea here |
| 1:30.0 | that the smaller the community, the easier it is to see others' destructive behavior. |
| 1:36.6 | The harms they cause their real motives. |
| 1:40.0 | The context we live in isn't small, right? |
| 1:43.0 | America, the diaspora, the world. |
| 1:46.1 | We live in this enormous community called humankind, and only a handful of those with power represent |
| 1:54.2 | our disparate interests. |
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