Voices of Buffalo, Rep. Ruben Gallego on Racial Terror, and CRT

Our Body Politic

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News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego of Arizona speaks with Farai about how his past experience as a Marine combat veteran helped him keep himself and fellow congresspeople safe during the insurrection on January 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol building. The pair also discuss the mass shooting in Buffalo and how replacement theory is a driving force for racial discrimination. 'Our Body Politic Presents' features Pushkin Industries’ podcast, “Getting Even With Anita Hill", with Anita Hill's interview of legal scholar and civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw on Critical Race theory, a term Crenshaw helped coin in the late 1980s, that is now central to America’s culture wars. And on our weekly segment, Sippin’ the Political Tea, Farai speaks to two veteran journalists and longtime residents of Buffalo, N.Y., Rod Watson and Sandy White, about the impacts of the racist mass shooting on their community.

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0:36.3	We are here for you, with you, and because of you. Thank you.
0:43.4	This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. Americans are mourning yet another deadly mass shooting
0:49.7	by an active and self-proclaimed racist and white supremacist. Last weekend, an 18-year-old white gunman shot and killed 10 people and injured three more at a supermarket in a majority black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York.
1:02.8	This attack follows a painfully familiar playbook.
1:06.2	A young, radicalized white male explicitly moved by fears of, quote, white replacement, commits acts of terror on an
1:13.8	unexpected community. We have seen this with the murders at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston,
1:19.1	among many others. We're going to talk to black journalists from Buffalo later in the show,
1:23.9	but we wanted to start with a member of Congress who's been looking at the
1:27.5	chessboard of politics through experiences including being a combat veteran, the child of immigrants,
1:33.1	and an Ivy League graduate, and who's plugged in on the rhetorical warfare that played a role
1:38.3	in both the insurrection and the killings in Buffalo.
1:42.0	He's U.S. Representative Ruben Gallego of Arizona's seventh congressional
1:45.5	district, which includes Phoenix and its western suburbs. Welcome, Representative Gallego.
1:51.3	Thank you. So I have to admit, what caught my eye recently was your interview about the
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