“The System Works For Those Who Occupy It”: Maria Teresa Kumar on Voting Rights

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The majority of Americans didn’t want to see Roe v. Wade overturned—but it was. Most Americans want gun reform—but it doesn’t happen. So the big question is: What’s going on here? Maria Teresa Kumar, cofounder of Voto Latino, understands the answers, and she lays them out here, in conversation with correspondent Treasure Brooks. They talk gerrymandering, voter suppression and the very specific races we need to win this fall in order to make things better. And of course, host Brittany Packnett Cunningham breaks down this week’s UNtrending news. 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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0:00.0	I'm a Sahihpe, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. I'm excited that today's episode of Undistracted
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0:24.3	by providing access to education, capital and business support services.
0:29.3	Later in the episode you'll hear from one of our program graduates and learn more about their
0:34.0	business and experiences. To learn more or apply to Goldman Sachs 10,000 small
0:39.4	businesses, visit GS.com slash 10Ks B. And Hey y'all it's Brittany. I am fresh back from a much needed international vacation where I surprisingly only
1:13.9	face timed home like five times a day to see the baby instead of my
1:18.2	expected 8 to 10 but perhaps unsurprisingly I came back to an America that feels even more toxic
1:26.8	than the one I left. So let me just see if I'm caught up on all I missed.
1:31.8	Sitting members of Congress are bragging about
1:35.1	being Christian nationalists. A record-breaking heat wave is putting houses people and
1:40.3	jailed populations at particular risk. And the CDC and a bunch of news and the
1:43.7	C. C. and a bunch of newspapers are giving monkeypox a scarily homophobic framing
1:48.1	that is basically putting us all in danger.
1:50.2	Yeah? Did I get it all?
1:52.4	Look, as tempting as it was.
1:55.0	To figure out how to just stay on vacation,
1:58.0	home was calling.
1:59.0	And not just because my mom guilt was creeping way too high,
2:02.0	but because the enemies of democracy
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