You Need Everyone (with Mike Schmidt)

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🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, DeRay, Sam, Brittany, and Clint discuss food stamp limitations, racial disparities in coronavirus deaths, Missouri prosecutors, and the imprisonment of housing insecure people in St. Louis. Then, DeRay sits down with Mike Schmidt, who is currently running to become the next district attorney of Portland. http://www.stlamerican.com/news/columnists/guest_columnists/senate-bill-would-disempower-elected-prosecutor-disenfranchise-st-louis-voters/article_9b0b8d78-8bc2-11ea-8f3e-b7a9c71d7ae9.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-simple-ordinance-violation-lands-homeless-st-louis-man-in-workhouse-for-months/article_a18fcded-fe3c-5be4-9725-e9fc4783bf82.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/01/your-money/food-stamps-snap-coronavirus.html http://bostonreview.net/race/colin-gordon-walter-johnson-jason-q-purnell-jamala-rogers-covid-19-and-color-line https://www.ziprecruiter.com/WorkTogether https://goshippo.com/lp/podcast-promo/ Nutrafol.com, code SAVETHEPEOPLE

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Drey.
0:03.6	I'm going to say that people in this episode is me,
0:05.5	Brenny Cleansam, as usual.
0:07.3	And then I sit down and talk to Portland's
0:08.8	candidate for DA Mike Schmidt to talk about what it means
0:11.8	to rethink criminal justice.
0:13.2	Why he's running for the role and why it matters.
0:16.0	And my advice for this week is to revisit
0:17.8	some of the old things.
0:18.8	I have revisited some readings from college
0:21.4	and some critical race essay, some things
0:23.5	that I read before I had much experience in the world.
0:26.8	And it has been really illuminating to revisit those pieces.
0:29.5	So my advice is revisit some of the oldies.
0:32.2	You know, I always love the giver, one of my favorite books.
0:34.9	Every time I read it, I learn something new.
0:37.3	Revisit the oldies.
0:38.6	Let's go.
0:42.0	Hey, y'all.
0:42.5	It's the news.
0:43.3	This is Brittany Packnet, cutting him at Miss Peck Yeti
0:45.8	on all social media.
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