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The Michael Brooks Show

TMBS ReAir 89 - Biggie + Marx = Truth ft. Reniqua Allen & Ben Burgis

The Michael Brooks Show

Michael Brooks

Education, News, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

TMBS 89 aired on May 7th, 2019.
Episode summary:
We talk about the climate crisis and the model that Extinction Rebellion gives to action.
Shoutout to NYC for refusing to let Bolsonaro into the city.
Author of "It Was All A Dream" Reniqua Allen (@rnz1) calls in to talk about her new book and the broken promise to black millennials in America.
During the GEM, David talks about the upcoming rideshare strike preceding Uber's IPO.
We talk about recent US provocations against Iran.
Ben Burgis (@BenBurgis) is in studio to talk the Left case for freedom
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The TMBS ReAir project was created to give people who discovered Michael's work towards the end of his life or after his passing a weekly place to access his work without feeling overwhelmed by the volume of content they missed, as well as continuing to give grieving friends, family and fans their Tuesday evenings with Michael.
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0:00.0

I'm going to say that my brothers and sisters of all colors here at this magnificent state

0:16.9

of South Carolina, I challenge you, can't you meet the standards of the great ones who

0:24.6

already come out of this state? Do you really know who Ralph Smalls was? The creator of the

0:34.8

first public school system in the whole nation because he had an understanding of

0:42.5

greatness somewhere he read he or she is greatest among you would be your servant

0:46.4

we focus on the least of these we'll focus on those catch and hail. Do you really

0:53.6

know who Marion Wright Edelman is? South Carolina, the great prophetic voice building on the legacy of

1:03.4

Fatty Lou Hamon, Ella Bacon, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel still strong

1:10.8

at 79 years old in a city that used to be chocolate called Washington DC. Do you really know who

1:21.2

Jesse Jackson is? From this town that this magnificent vanilla brother named Bernie Sanders

1:32.0

stood with a chocolate brother named Jesse Jackson in 1988 and said we need to talk about poverty

1:39.6

we need to talk about wealth we need to bring all of us together no matter what color because we

1:45.6

have a commitment to integrity and principle and we're concerned about the least of these

1:51.1

but you have to have courage we've been living in our age for 40 years but too many

1:57.4

fro are still a scared and intimidated walk around laughing when it ain't funny and smiling with

2:07.4

you got to straighten your backs up you got to call in the question some of your milk

2:12.6

toll centrist leadership who's not telling the truth and say we have voices too we can

2:18.9

turn about something too and if you really have that kind of care you really have that kind of

2:24.3

concern then you have courage then you have a more consistency what I love about this brother is

2:31.0

not that he's a god not that he's a deity he's a human being trying to be morally consistent

2:37.5

and bear witness in such a way that he can bring us together and cave his name

2:48.9

welcome to the Michael Brooks show we're broadcasting live from downtown Brooklyn USA we're left

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