Why We Can't (and Shouldn't) Move On From Jan. 6
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Why We Can't (and Shouldn't) Move On From Jan. 6. Fordham University political science professor, Christina Greer, joins to takes our politics questions on the hearings and more. Plus, the story of 91-year-old artist Faith Ringgold, as told by her daughter.
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| 0:00.0 | The public accounting has begun. |
| 0:03.8 | Congressional hearings about an assault on our democracy by a fraction of Americans |
| 0:08.3 | who nonetheless still hold enormous political power over their rest of us. |
| 0:13.0 | How do we get through this without feeling defeated? |
| 0:16.0 | Can we find a light at the end of the tunnel in these House hearings? |
| 0:19.6 | We're going to reflect on these questions and take your calls with political scientist |
| 0:23.2 | Christina Greer, and then we're going to clear our emotional palettes a bit. |
| 0:27.5 | Have you spent time with the work of artist Faith Ringel? |
| 0:30.9 | She's in her 90s still making art, and honestly, she's been reflecting on these questions |
| 0:36.1 | since the 60s. |
| 0:37.1 | I mean, it was just like a, I don't know what, a vegetable soup of American violence. |
| 0:42.6 | It wrapped around. |
| 0:43.6 | What do you say? |
| 0:44.6 | Violence is American as cherry pie. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll learn about her work from her daughter. |
| 0:49.4 | That's all coming up on United States of anxiety. |
| 0:58.5 | The January 6, hearings are starting tomorrow. |
| 1:02.7 | What do you think is at stake? |
| 1:04.5 | Well, I think it was an attempt to co- and it's been tremendous effort and resources used |
| 1:10.8 | and this is our opportunity to hear directly. |
| 1:13.8 | Well, it's important, you know, to try to protect democracy, you know, if there was something |
| 1:19.0 | illegally done. |
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