Walk Into The Risk

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Brittany, Sam and Clint discuss voter ID for older voters, Rachael Rollins and criminal justice reform, voter suppression, and the DeVos Administration’s rerouting of federal education money for guns. Wesley Lowery and Kimbriell Kelly join DeRay to talk about their ongoing work to understand why fewer arrests are made for violent crimes with Black victims.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Drey and welcome to Piot
0:30.5	what does it mean to sacrifice?
0:41.1	What does it mean to walk into things that are uncertain
0:43.2	because you know you're on the right side of justice
0:45.9	or equity and that to me is what I carry that like
0:50.1	when people ask me what we did in St. Louis
0:54.2	and in Ferguson in the first wave of the protest
0:56.3	and like what made us special like why is that moment important?
1:00.4	At the most basic level I think that we walked into the risk
1:03.4	we walked right into it when people told us
1:06.4	that we weren't going to win when people told us
1:08.3	it wasn't the right way to do it because we knew we were on the right side of justice
1:11.5	so my advice to you this week is walk into the risk
1:14.7	and I'm on the book tour so I'll be in a city near you
1:18.4	we had a packed house in New York and DC and Atlanta
1:21.8	I'm coming to St. Louis I'm coming to Texas soon
1:24.7	so a lot of cities across the country I'll be there
1:26.9	hope to see you there
1:28.3	you can find it where I'll be on tour at deray.com
1:31.2	and you can also buy the book at deray.com or any bookstore
1:34.8	that is near you
1:36.5	and also if you've already bought the book please do me a solid
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