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The Michael Steele Podcast

What Black History Month Means in 2023: With Dr. Jason Johnson

The Michael Steele Podcast

Two Squared Media

Politics, News, History, Government

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele and Dr. Jason Johnson discuss white reactions to Black History Month, the impact of Ron DeSantis's Stop Woke Act and whether or not he'll be electable in 2024. They also discuss the absurdity of George Santos, the murder of Tyre Nichols and what reforming our current system of policing can look like.

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Michael Still podcast. I'm Michael Steele and I'm looking forward

0:04.8

to this conversation as we begin Black History Month. We get to talk about Black History.

0:13.8

A whole lot of people out there don't want us to do that. As my guest is the incredible Dr. Jason

0:20.5

Johnson associate professor of politics and journalism at the Morgan State University

0:26.6

here in the great state of Maryland and he's also an MSNBC political analyst and he hosts his own

0:33.6

podcast which is really really good listening. It's called a word with Jason Johnson. We're going to

0:42.0

get into a number of things. Certainly what Black History has come to mean and particularly

0:51.0

given the fight that so many are putting up against the teaching of Black History but also how we

0:58.0

how we take in the events surrounding the death, the murder of Tyree's nickels of Tyree nickel

1:08.4

nickels and that impact on the community. So sit back relax as we kick off Black History Month

1:16.8

with Dr. Jason Johnson right here on the Michael Still podcast right after this. This episode is

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I'm glad you could join us as we kick off Black History Month and we start the conversation yet again

2:14.0

about Black History with an intense sense of purpose that's going to probably piss the white folks

2:22.4

off because they seem to get upset Jason when we had this conversation. My guest is Dr. Jason Johnson

2:31.6

welcome bro to the podcast. Welcome back man's been a while. Thank you. Thank you. You know it's

2:36.4

interesting. You know every single it's like we've had these weird Black History Months for the

2:41.1

last couple of years. Remember the Black History Month that started was it four years ago with

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