The Work Continues (with Jonathan Katz)
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4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Myles, and Kaya cover the underreported news of the week— including a new Black tech hub, forged DNA evidence, and a reverse migration to the South. DeRay interviews Jonathan Katz on his new book Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and Breaking of America's Empire.
News:
Myles https://www.businessinsider.com/blacktag-founders-black-creators-audiences-platform-2022-1
Kaya https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/14/black-migration-south/
DeRay https://www.npr.org/2022/01/13/1072766152/virginia-beach-forged-evidence-investigation
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Durey and we're going to file a third of the P.1. |
| 0:07.0 | This episode is me, Kaya, DR, and Miles as usual talking about all the news that you |
| 0:12.0 | don't know. |
| 0:13.0 | And I'm actually recording this on the road because, you know, I'm still an activist. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm traveling across the country, meeting with legislators and testifying with four city |
| 0:20.8 | councils and I'm on the road today. |
| 0:23.2 | But I got to talk to Jonathan Kass, the incredible author of Gangsters of Capitalism. |
| 0:27.1 | I learned so much in the conversation I know that you will too. |
| 0:30.5 | You have to get this book must, must, must. |
| 0:33.0 | My advice for this week is to remember that the work continues. |
| 0:35.4 | The best way to honor Dr. King and all the people who risked their lives for us, who |
| 0:39.6 | came before us, is to do the work wherever we are. |
| 0:42.6 | It's why I'm in the airport right now recording because I got to get it in and I have to travel |
| 0:46.7 | to another city that I didn't necessarily plan to be in, but want to be here because the |
| 0:51.8 | work of organizing is community work. |
| 0:54.9 | Let's go. |
| 1:00.1 | My news this week is about the Virginia Beach Police Department because they were using |
| 1:03.6 | forged documents with fake DNA evidence looking like it came from the Virginia Department |
| 1:08.2 | of Forensic Science in order to get confessions from people. |
| 1:11.1 | They did it on at least five occasions in between March 2016 and February 2020, which is |
| 1:17.2 | wild. |
| 1:18.2 | And you know, here's the thing when it came out in an investigation, the Virginia |
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