Who's Allowed To Be American: With Guest Baratunde Thurston

The Michael Steele Podcast

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Politics, News, History, Government

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Michael and guest Baratunde Thurston talk about the deeply ingrained racism and misogyny in American culture, and how we might finally overcome some of the divides we face.

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0:45.2	What up? Hey everybody, it's Michael Steele. Welcome to the Michael Steele Podcast.
0:50.4	Yeah, it is election week. Not a day, week. And it has been a hell of an election week. We won't
0:58.3	even talk about the crazy shit that Trump did in the White House brief. Yeah, no, we're going to talk
1:04.8	about that. But I'm so glad you guys can join. Hope everybody did their civic duty and vote it if
1:10.4	you didn't, and just download the podcast, but then, you know, I don't want to talk to you.
1:15.4	So we're clear. Download the podcast. Then we're not talking. Anyway, so, but I'm glad you're here. I'm
1:23.3	excited when folks of my team told me that we had this brother coming in this week in the midst of
1:30.7	all of this, particularly given some of the stuff he was writing and talking about coming into this
1:36.4	election, I was just very, very excited to welcome Beretunde Thurston to the podcast. Now,
1:44.9	just so you know how this brother is crad, the Emmy nominated host, right? He's worked for the
1:53.5	Onion, which I love. And you can see you still got some of that onion in you. I can tell.
1:59.9	By the way, you write, brother, produced up for the Daily Show, advised the Obama White House and
2:05.6	wrote the New York Times best seller, How to Be Black. Do you have in Reddit? Get it? Read it.
2:12.1	He's the executive producer and host of two podcasts, How to Citizen with a Beretunde and we're
2:18.8	having a moment, which seen that called the most important podcast of 2020. So you need to share
2:25.2	some tips with this brother. So we can get in that way. The right now, you know, he's doing his
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