I’m an 81 year old black woman and I absolutely love this series. It gives a true historical picture of our country. This is the America that Donald Trump wants to take Americans back to.
This is SUCH an excellent podcast!! Please, please release snippets as shorts so more viewers become aware of these conversations. You both are creating something really unique and marvelous here.
Our country is too corrupt to have a discussion. All people do is gaslight. Our election tells me everything about our country. If you close your eyes and listen, it’s very easy to know what candidate makes sense, but half of the people in this country our bigoted and brainwashed. How can you ever have a discussion.
This is so informative, I’m Canadian and during each American election our health care system gets held up as a complete failure and we’re too socialist, “blah, blah.” To quote Jim Carry on Bill Maher, “Canadians are nice because they have healthcare!” My daughter is married to an American living in San Francisco so this helps me understand your history better so thank your Mom for me.🇨🇦🇺🇸
I love this discussion , I’m American come from Eastern Europe emigrant , that system we hade , was bad , and collapsed . Economically could not hold , used all reserves ( from peasants to industrial working woman / shortage of man after war ) in some point there was no electricity …cold in80 ‘s but I got good education , my parent where children of war they got master’s degrees, because of new system ,children in cities had vacation camps , everybody where medical insurance , medicine was cheep… there was a lot of good stuff , there was more for communist party members .It was a lot incompetence , people would steal , because you couldn’t buy … meritocracy was limited to party members … I think in west part of the world was better , because of scare of communism and fascism … after eastern system collapse in 80 ‘s western system was not afraid of revolution . I’m afraid the world is waiting for another catastrophe… because generations who remember is dying …
Make a few shorts, the algorithm will push your channel out to more people. This channel is fantastic. If people see it you will definitely get subscribers.
Boy, this really resonated with me. 50 years ago, I told my daughters that life is who you knew, and what you looked like… (very sadly!) Of course, a good education helped, too, and it was readily available to them, especially as their great-grandfathers and uncles had attended Oxford. Yale and Harvard. Apparently, ivy was intertwined with their DNA. I remember my brother being busted when marijuana possession was practically a hanging offense (we are Bermudian); Our mother immediately said, “Now, who do I know?” She figured it out, strings were pulled, and my brother not only got off scott free, his record was expunged. Had he been black, he would have died of old age in prison, rather than on his farm as he did a few years ago.
Thank you! This is brilliant and so helpful for those who didn’t grow up in that period and good reminders for me. Like you, I am a child of physicians. My father quit medicine in 1965 because he didn’t “want the government telling me how to medically treat my patients.” I agree with him. Little did he know what insurance companies or his Republican politicians would end up doing. I’ve sent this video to my 42 y.o. daughter who is charged up about Kamala and Tim. This will give her the history she needs to deepen her understanding and face her MAGA father, should he be stipid enough to take her on. I look forward to more of your conversations. 💙
In the beginning, listen to your mom talked about the conservative ideas/belief I was asking myself what the heck is this. But as I listened on, I like the analysis, the comparison, the critical thinking, the pointing 👉 out of the lies by the church, the propaganda. Very informative.
I was born in 1953 and lived in Los Angeles, California most of my life. So I experienced all of what you talked about first hand. Keep doing what your both doing, Well Done.
I am loving this podcast. I am not from this country and when I decided to go back to college and could not work as much as wanted to. I was a single mom and all the jobs I was able to get without a degree could not support my family. Back then there were no online schools. I was refused food stamps because I wanted a four-year degree rather than an Associate degree. It did not stop me. Any person who was getting a 2-year degree got free books, again, I did not qualify because I was getting a 4-year degree. I found ways around all of those barriers. I now have a Bachelor's and two Masters and about to finish my Doctorate.
I appreciate you two doing this. I have worked really hard learning history the past couple of years. I’m 42 and still learning. I’m Native American and have lived in Oklahoma my entire life. I’ve always been an “outsider” in the sense I was against racism and discrimination ever since I can remember.growing up, I couldn’t understand why people were so hateful and racist. I stopped going to church as a preteen when I overheard all the church ladies talking crap about how people were dressed and such.
When I was a ten year old boy, my Dad went to a secret Communist meeting in Akron, Ohio. Even then, as young as I was, I was completely _terrified_ about that.
Tempted to show this to my rightwing mother. She is fairly close minded when it comes to the current republican candidate, but could benefit from watching this.
I love your mom! I've learned so much by listening to you guys speak. Understanding our history as a country helps clarify many questions, not just the "what" but the why things are happening the way they are. I've seen many things spoken about here but didn't have the language. 😊
If anyone is listening and wants to know more about the Dulles brothers, there’s a good series on them from Behind the Bastards. You can also get some interesting insights about how the US impacts in Guatemala and Iran are still reverberating today by reading Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine.
I always wondered whether Eisenhower was surprised by the "success" of the action with the United Fruits and was encouraged by this. If only this had been crushed.
I really appreciate your putting out this historical/ contextual perspective that many people younger than myself ( I’m 73 ) who did not grow up during that period. Actions have consequences and we are now experiencing the consequences of our historical actions.
Excellent discussion! I am so happy to hear intelligent content. I have not watched tv news since the tragic election. I am tired of corporate 'news' boosting fascists and their enablers in the name of hearing opposing viewpoints. If a political consultant supports lies it is unethical to bring him or her in front of cameras to excuse or support destructive rhetoric.
I'm so glad that your mom is sharing her thoughts. She has a wonderful sense of fairness. We do need to make reparations to descendants of formerly enslaved people. It's the right thing to do.
Excellent dialogue. As an immigrant I did not learn these things. I was too busy learning the language and into survival. Even if, from the beginning, I was aware of inequalities, I knew a measure of security by simply being a white woman. At 84, I am very grateful to people like you, helping me to make sense of the politics of this country.
So happy to watch this next episode. This is outstanding! As I said before get this to as many people as possible. I’m sharing it. Bravo to you and Mom for your efforts and sharing. Mom you are so insightful. Your journey and evolution is inspiring and hopeful.
This is fascinating! Sending my best to your Mom. I love hearing about “HERstory” Life stories. It’s important to learn about this. I hope my kids would like to learn from me too; someday❤
Can i hug your mom? Cause i want to hug her.❤❤❤ im going to keep watching this vids in order because i have questions, A LOT of questions. This is such a brilliant idea to do these vids. Thank you both for these.
Not just black men, all women in the service did not get the benefits of the G.I. Bill, either. In my short lifetime, women could not even get college scholarships.
This is so well done for an informal interview of your mom! I love the back and forth of the micro (her point of view) and the macro (the social/historical/structural perspective) and how this interplay shapes the individual but also how individuals also shape their surroundings and larger society. I love it for what it is, one person’s lived experience, and realize that it is one person’s experience that cannot contain every perspective which would be impossible and much less juicy!
Excellent. I know this history yet every time I hear it, my heart breaks. I think a lot of white people are aware that if black and brown people have/had equal opportunity, their promise, their potential, their success is astronomical.
Important conversations, don't forget while they boogie man welfare welfare, those cos/other getting our tax payer subsidies some without even paying their fair share of taxes receive much more than any so called social programs.
My father's dreams were shattered because I believe he wanted to be a pilot or something in aviation. He loved to park and watch the planes take off at the air field. Being a black man, he knew that was out of the question. My mom wanted to be a nurse, but the odds were against her. It's bad to physically kill a person, but it's almost worse to kill a person's dream.
Each posting your present just makes me talk with you/my TV! I am a female Vet-3 services-Navy/Army/National Guard-my G.I. Bill was trimmed down to minimal-where the males were using 1000.00's per semester. I forgot to mention-I put in 15000.00; and the Navy was to match what I put in-I wasn't permitted even my contribution. I served with one particular famale who made it her absolute goal to complete every advancement course, worked her back side off; passed over 3 times for promotion! Governance can not allow chruches to give any impute-due to the lip service behind the pulpit-and the idea God can't hear, nor see the Anti-Christ running the joints!!!
Man, you cut her off right when she's getting fired up. I am surprised she hasn't talked about the triad of the war presidents. FDR was hell-bent on punishing the rich for the depression. Truman, the war hero and everyman was painted as a commie and Eisenhower the general that was bought and paid for. My conservative father hated FDR and Truman. In his mind, FDR sent him to an orphanage, and Truman sent him to war. He was never taught that conservative economics burned down the world in the 30s and the wars of the 40s and 50s were a direct result of the massive economic destruction.
Mom is a true patriot because she understands testing facts against assertions, and then adjust opinions when "lies" we discovered. I appreciate her greatly.
The DEI actually had its start a few years back when institutions, schools, businesses, government, etc. were required to include a given percentage of minorities in the workplace or school to show fairness through inclusion. That’s why Trump and others have said Kamala Harris only became the VP as a result of the DEI process, not because she was necessarily deserving or qualified.
- [ ] Equality is much easier for the affluent and well educated. - [ ] Equality always feels like a loss to the people who were previously unfairly ahead.
America was made based on British Imperialism, while they couldn't have America as one their colonies, they have benefited to have a huge market here and use American people as workers, consumers, and soldiers , and basically as commodities and they never intended that the rule of law here to benefits ordinary people.
43:01 Figure out what we do about it now It feels like a lot of that was done in the 90's & 2000's and it had been consistently undermined since then by activists on the opposite side. And the stuff that was achieved in the 90s/2000s was watered down compromises. So now it's all disappearing.
Every child had a pretty good shot To get at least as far as their old man got But something happened on the way to that place They threw an American flag in our face
There are boomers and baby boomers. I am at the end of the baby boomer, 1961, and I think your mom is a baby boomer. This is good for me to hear. My parents were democrats in California and were somewhat yuppies. Both worked full time and were democrats, but California, as well as the rest of the country, went through all kinds of struggles and my grandparents did too. They went through the depression and WW2 differently but also had some of the same attitudes. I don't even know if my grandparents voted. I know my mom's parents liked FDR. My (mom side) grandma's sister when I was 10 visiting Idaho up near Canada pulled out a photo album of young men in uniform that she had grown up with and page after page same story - this is so and so and he didn't return died in WW2. My biological dad was Catholic but died when I was young my stepdad's parents were the other grandparents I knew and were also yuppies Norwegian is more my cultural raising. My step grandma was an English professor. My catholic half sister I met when I was 21 taught English at catholic school. My (step) dad took us to Martin Luther King Jr. ralleys. His parents were somewhat indifferent and argumentative and my dad listened to records of Martin Luther King Jr. which made his parents uncomfortable. My mom was a psych tech and had her own home and Reagan screwed up California according to my mom. Although when Reagan ran for president my first vote I didn't vote I wasn't sure but then Carter pissed people off in California telling people he lost electorally before California poles closed, so I didn't vote. Many Californians became Republicans or already were. I hate that Harris and Waltz lost and I don't think we can wait until 2026 to start our next election. Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Trump won because they were celebrities. Gary Coleman ran against Schwarzenegger in CA because he said he was the opposite of Schwarzenegger but CA went for Schwarzenegger for governor. Harris wasn't known well enough and I heard a black man saying Democrats, Harris could have won but didn't vote enough. I think Kamala ought to stay in the spotlight and all Democrats because Biden and Harris were the opposite of Trump which was a relief after Trump but also were not seen as strongly involved with our country.
Q: what are your thoughts about Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, mastermind of Project 2025 and a Catholic? Appreciate the 'dinner table' vibe of your conversation.
Republicans and conservatives weren’t necessarily racists. But they knew that they could use racism, especially in the former Confederacy, to get the majority they needed to get what they wanted-the power to cut taxes and regulation for corporations and the wealthy. The same goes for other wedge issues like abortion, anti LGBTQ, and anti immigration and anti union.
The power over dynamic wielded by the white owning class is inherently racist. They don't have to run around lynching people to harm them. The notion that there has to be sentiment to make it racist (agressive) and the absensrnce of hatred (passive) isn't harmful has a blind eye component to it.
It still baffles me that confederate slave holders were able to convince poor non-slave owners to fight in the civil war to keep slavery even though ending slavery would mean PAYING jobs available that they could be hired to do.
Income inequality is on purpose. It’s not a side effect of the system, it is the goal of our current system. Why? Because it’s not enough to be rich. It is also necessary that other people are poor so that rich people can control them with money. A person who is one paycheck away from being homeless can’t push back against their boss, no matter how abusive.
I’m Lakota so I am definitely anti American and anti capitalist but it tuned be into an anarchist because what I saw was just another version of capitalism and the same police state as here
I’m an 81 year old black woman and I absolutely love this series. It gives a true historical picture of our country. This is the America that Donald Trump wants to take Americans back to.
Amen
I agree! I'm white but born with mild Cebreal Palsy. The perspectives here are great.
This is SUCH an excellent podcast!! Please, please release snippets as shorts so more viewers become aware of these conversations. You both are creating something really unique and marvelous here.
I agree - utterly fantastic! Looking forward to #3. Kudos (that means many hugs and plus-points).
I totally agree! I've watched the 1st and now this one and I'm hooked! Super informative to see the similarities drawn from the past to now with #45.
This podcast is a revelation of American history.
This is a marvelous discussion. If we could have more discussions like this our country would move in a much better direction.
Our country is too corrupt to have a discussion. All people do is gaslight. Our election tells me everything about our country. If you close your eyes and listen, it’s very easy to know what candidate makes sense, but half of the people in this country our bigoted and brainwashed. How can you ever have a discussion.
This is so informative, I’m Canadian and during each American election our health care system gets held up as a complete failure and we’re too socialist, “blah, blah.” To quote Jim Carry on Bill Maher, “Canadians are nice because they have healthcare!” My daughter is married to an American living in San Francisco so this helps me understand your history better so thank your Mom for me.🇨🇦🇺🇸
Aussies dont understand it either. 😂
I love this discussion , I’m American come from Eastern Europe emigrant , that system we hade , was bad , and collapsed . Economically could not hold , used all reserves ( from peasants to industrial working woman / shortage of man after war ) in some point there was no electricity …cold in80 ‘s but I got good education , my parent where children of war they got master’s degrees, because of new system ,children in cities had vacation camps , everybody where medical insurance , medicine was cheep… there was a lot of good stuff , there was more for communist party members .It was a lot incompetence , people would steal , because you couldn’t buy … meritocracy was limited to party members … I think in west part of the world was better , because of scare of communism and fascism … after eastern system collapse in 80 ‘s western system was not afraid of revolution . I’m afraid the world is waiting for another catastrophe… because generations who remember is dying …
Not the same if you're talking to health professionals. We dream of living w Canadian healthcare❤❤❤
Make a few shorts, the algorithm will push your channel out to more people. This channel is fantastic. If people see it you will definitely get subscribers.
This is a really great channel 👏
This was a breath of fresh air podcast. You should have more of these enlightening conversations.
Loved this so much. Every American needs to hear this history that we didn’t learn in school.
Europeans too, so we can learn more about how things turns out and its mekanism. A great way to learn! Big hugs from Norway❤
Your mom is a great storyteller.
Damn, can I adopt your mom!? Mom for president!❤
She's amazing! Incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable.
To me DEI is the pushback to employers not hiring the demographic that they see as less and cant handle the possibility of being better.
Boy, this really resonated with me.
50 years ago, I told my daughters that life is who you knew, and what you looked like… (very sadly!)
Of course, a good education helped, too, and it was readily available to them, especially as their great-grandfathers and uncles had attended Oxford. Yale and Harvard. Apparently, ivy was intertwined with their DNA.
I remember my brother being busted when marijuana possession was practically a hanging offense (we are Bermudian); Our mother immediately said, “Now, who do I know?”
She figured it out, strings were pulled, and my brother not only got off scott free, his record was expunged. Had he been black, he would have died of old age in prison, rather than on his farm as he did a few years ago.
Very informative podcast really appreciate it, Thanks! Lots of respect for your mom because she utter her words straight and to the point Thanks Mom!❤
You and your Mom are both brilliant and delightfully insightful 👏. Your delivery is stellar and compelling.
Thank you! This is brilliant and so helpful for those who didn’t grow up in that period and good reminders for me. Like you, I am a child of physicians. My father quit medicine in 1965 because he didn’t “want the government telling me how to medically treat my patients.” I agree with him. Little did he know what insurance companies or his Republican politicians would end up doing. I’ve sent this video to my 42 y.o. daughter who is charged up about Kamala and Tim. This will give her the history she needs to deepen her understanding and face her MAGA father, should he be stipid enough to take her on. I look forward to more of your conversations. 💙
Good move.
In the beginning, listen to your mom talked about the conservative ideas/belief I was asking myself what the heck is this. But as I listened on, I like the analysis, the comparison, the critical thinking, the pointing 👉 out of the lies by the church, the propaganda. Very informative.
Geez, your mom is just freaking awesome...love her insights and sense of history and how it pertains to today.
I was born in 1953 and lived in Los Angeles, California most of my life. So I experienced all of what you talked about first hand. Keep doing what your both doing, Well Done.
I am loving this podcast. I am not from this country and when I decided to go back to college and could not work as much as wanted to. I was a single mom and all the jobs I was able to get without a degree could not support my family. Back then there were no online schools. I was refused food stamps because I wanted a four-year degree rather than an Associate degree. It did not stop me. Any person who was getting a 2-year degree got free books, again, I did not qualify because I was getting a 4-year degree. I found ways around all of those barriers. I now have a Bachelor's and two Masters and about to finish my Doctorate.
Congratulations!!! I wish we lived in a part of the country where these things were more easily accessible 💯✨
Just love your Mom, I as a Canadian retired 64 year old, I have learned so much!
Democracy is so important and I thank you for your heart 😊
I appreciate you two doing this. I have worked really hard learning history the past couple of years. I’m 42 and still learning. I’m Native American and have lived in Oklahoma my entire life. I’ve always been an “outsider” in the sense I was against racism and discrimination ever since I can remember.growing up, I couldn’t understand why people were so hateful and racist. I stopped going to church as a preteen when I overheard all the church ladies talking crap about how people were dressed and such.
I am with you.
This will end up being SOOOO powerful. Keep going, I love it!!!
I'm loving these podcasts! You're both intelligent, compassionate, will spoken people.
When I was a ten year old boy, my Dad went to a secret Communist meeting in Akron, Ohio. Even then, as young as I was, I was completely _terrified_ about that.
So interesting. Thank you.
Great conversations, great knowledge sharing. Keep it up, this channel is gold!
Tempted to show this to my rightwing mother. She is fairly close minded when it comes to the current republican candidate, but could benefit from watching this.
Good luck, my kids will not watch or listen to anything I suggest🤦
I was born in Canada, lived there for 40 years and then lived in the US for 26 and this puts a lot of the politics into perspective.
I love your mom! I've learned so much by listening to you guys speak. Understanding our history as a country helps clarify many questions, not just the "what" but the why things are happening the way they are. I've seen many things spoken about here but didn't have the language. 😊
If anyone is listening and wants to know more about the Dulles brothers, there’s a good series on them from Behind the Bastards. You can also get some interesting insights about how the US impacts in Guatemala and Iran are still reverberating today by reading Naomi Klein’s book, The Shock Doctrine.
I always wondered whether Eisenhower was surprised by the "success" of the action with the United Fruits and was encouraged by this. If only this had been crushed.
It is so necessary and good to spread the info about the real historical context!
Once again, I LOVE your Mom.
“Um, we can probably end it there.” LOL. Mic drop moment for mama!
Your mom . Has the floor now. I think this will go viral. I have also seen the world she has seen.
More like razor blades than rocks. Love your mom!
I really appreciate your putting out this historical/ contextual perspective that many people younger than myself ( I’m 73 ) who did not grow up during that period. Actions have consequences and we are now experiencing the consequences of our historical actions.
This episode is just as good. Thank you
Would have loved to have seen Will's mom debate William F.Buckley jr. "That's just plain stupid!" She sounds like Walz.
This is fantastic thank you guys... Or should I say mom and son
EVERYTHING your mom says. ALL of it. Always.
I thought I knew a lot, but I learned a lot. Thank you!
I am really enjoying these discussions and envying your mother/ son relationship. Keep up the good work. New subscriber from the UK.
Fantastic, honest lady..
I love this🎉 Please keep sharing your conversations!!!
Fantastic series!
Excellent discussion! I am so happy to hear intelligent content. I have not watched tv news since the tragic election. I am tired of corporate 'news' boosting fascists and their enablers in the name of hearing opposing viewpoints. If a political consultant supports lies it is unethical to bring him or her in front of cameras to excuse or support destructive rhetoric.
Oh, I'm sharing these...repeatedly❤❤❤
Love the comment there is a lot of invisible history that needs to be made visible
I'm so glad that your mom is sharing her thoughts. She has a wonderful sense of fairness. We do need to make reparations to descendants of formerly enslaved people. It's the right thing to do.
I am so happy to have found you. This podcast is brilliant!
Brilliant podcast! New subscriber. I’m hooked!
This is so important for all to learn. THANK YOU
Another great show!!!
Thank you for sharing.
Excellent dialogue. As an immigrant I did not learn these things. I was too busy learning the language and into survival. Even if, from the beginning, I was aware of inequalities, I knew a measure of security by simply being a white woman. At 84, I am very grateful to people like you, helping me to make sense of the politics of this country.
So happy to watch this next episode. This is outstanding! As I said before get this to as many people as possible. I’m sharing it. Bravo to you and Mom for your efforts and sharing. Mom you are so insightful. Your journey and evolution is inspiring and hopeful.
I'm really enjoying these discussions -- similar, but from a more immediate perspective than the discussions from Heather Cox Richardson. Keep going!
This is fascinating! Sending my best to your Mom. I love hearing about “HERstory”
Life stories. It’s important to learn about this. I hope my kids would like to learn from me too; someday❤
Keep it up, mom.
Fantastic discussion. Thank you for the thoughtful, eloquent breakdowns of history, and our systems. The "footrace" analogy is especially evocative.
When can we look forward to the "Invisible History" podcast? ;]
Fantastic educational talks! I love Mom!
Love your podcast please continue with more of this discussion it's so needed
Can i hug your mom? Cause i want to hug her.❤❤❤ im going to keep watching this vids in order because i have questions, A LOT of questions. This is such a brilliant idea to do these vids. Thank you both for these.
Love this discussion. Please keep doing it.
The jet pack analogy at the starting line of the race is so good.
“Loving and patient friends” ….an important concept.
I glad i found this channel. Mom's audio is ringing
Great conversation, very informative, love your mom, intelligent people are seekers of the truth, thank you !
Really good stuff. Your mom is brilliant.
Not just black men, all women in the service did not get the benefits of the G.I. Bill, either. In my short lifetime, women could not even get college scholarships.
This is so well done for an informal interview of your mom! I love the back and forth of the micro (her point of view) and the macro (the social/historical/structural perspective) and how this interplay shapes the individual but also how individuals also shape their surroundings and larger society. I love it for what it is, one person’s lived experience, and realize that it is one person’s experience that cannot contain every perspective which would be impossible and much less juicy!
Born in 1955 - younger than your mom but I remember a lot of this.
Excellent. I know this history yet every time I hear it, my heart breaks. I think a lot of white people are aware that if black and brown people have/had equal opportunity, their promise, their potential, their success is astronomical.
Important conversations, don't forget while they boogie man welfare welfare, those cos/other getting our tax payer subsidies some without even paying their fair share of taxes receive much more than any so called social programs.
Keep it coming....wow
My father's dreams were shattered because I believe he wanted to be a pilot or something in aviation. He loved to park and watch the planes take off at the air field. Being a black man, he knew that was out of the question. My mom wanted to be a nurse, but the odds were against her. It's bad to physically kill a person, but it's almost worse to kill a person's dream.
Each posting your present just makes me talk with you/my TV! I am a female Vet-3 services-Navy/Army/National Guard-my G.I. Bill was trimmed down to minimal-where the males were using 1000.00's per semester. I forgot to mention-I put in 15000.00; and the Navy was to match what I put in-I wasn't permitted even my contribution.
I served with one particular famale who made it her absolute goal to complete every advancement course, worked her back side off; passed over 3 times for promotion!
Governance can not allow chruches to give any impute-due to the lip service behind the pulpit-and the idea God can't hear, nor see the Anti-Christ running the joints!!!
Man, you cut her off right when she's getting fired up.
I am surprised she hasn't talked about the triad of the war presidents. FDR was hell-bent on punishing the rich for the depression. Truman, the war hero and everyman was painted as a commie and Eisenhower the general that was bought and paid for. My conservative father hated FDR and Truman. In his mind, FDR sent him to an orphanage, and Truman sent him to war. He was never taught that conservative economics burned down the world in the 30s and the wars of the 40s and 50s were a direct result of the massive economic destruction.
Mom is a true patriot because she understands testing facts against assertions, and then adjust opinions when "lies" we discovered. I appreciate her greatly.
The DEI actually had its start a few years back when institutions, schools, businesses, government, etc. were required to include a given percentage of minorities in the workplace or school to show fairness through inclusion. That’s why Trump and others have said Kamala Harris only became the VP as a result of the DEI process, not because she was necessarily deserving or qualified.
Thank you…
- [ ] Equality is much easier for the affluent and well educated.
- [ ] Equality always feels like a loss to the people who were previously unfairly ahead.
New subbie, excellent content!🌺
God, I wish my own mother was as reasonable and thoughtful as yours. Mine never escaped the cruel conservative dogma she was indoctrinated with.
America was made based on British Imperialism, while they couldn't have America as one their colonies, they have benefited to have a huge market here and use American people as workers, consumers, and soldiers , and basically as commodities and they never intended that the rule of law here to benefits ordinary people.
I am Native American and I am so worried for my people and the policies that they want to bring back that made Native Americans experienced already.
I feel the same way....I am not Native American but I'm worried also.
43:01 Figure out what we do about it now
It feels like a lot of that was done in the 90's & 2000's and it had been consistently undermined since then by activists on the opposite side. And the stuff that was achieved in the 90s/2000s was watered down compromises.
So now it's all disappearing.
❤❤❤
Clue! The movie is set in the 1950s. Love that movie.
If only we weren’t so tribal and were willing to share.
HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF SMH .. THIS IS INSANE
Every child had a pretty good shot
To get at least as far as their old man got
But something happened on the way to that place
They threw an American flag in our face
There are boomers and baby boomers. I am at the end of the baby boomer, 1961, and I think your mom is a baby boomer. This is good for me to hear. My parents were democrats in California and were somewhat yuppies. Both worked full time and were democrats, but California, as well as the rest of the country, went through all kinds of struggles and my grandparents did too. They went through the depression and WW2 differently but also had some of the same attitudes. I don't even know if my grandparents voted. I know my mom's parents liked FDR. My (mom side) grandma's sister when I was 10 visiting Idaho up near Canada pulled out a photo album of young men in uniform that she had grown up with and page after page same story - this is so and so and he didn't return died in WW2. My biological dad was Catholic but died when I was young my stepdad's parents were the other grandparents I knew and were also yuppies Norwegian is more my cultural raising. My step grandma was an English professor. My catholic half sister I met when I was 21 taught English at catholic school. My (step) dad took us to Martin Luther King Jr. ralleys. His parents were somewhat indifferent and argumentative and my dad listened to records of Martin Luther King Jr. which made his parents uncomfortable. My mom was a psych tech and had her own home and Reagan screwed up California according to my mom. Although when Reagan ran for president my first vote I didn't vote I wasn't sure but then Carter pissed people off in California telling people he lost electorally before California poles closed, so I didn't vote. Many Californians became Republicans or already were. I hate that Harris and Waltz lost and I don't think we can wait until 2026 to start our next election. Reagan, Schwarzenegger, Trump won because they were celebrities. Gary Coleman ran against Schwarzenegger in CA because he said he was the opposite of Schwarzenegger but CA went for Schwarzenegger for governor. Harris wasn't known well enough and I heard a black man saying Democrats, Harris could have won but didn't vote enough. I think Kamala ought to stay in the spotlight and all Democrats because Biden and Harris were the opposite of Trump which was a relief after Trump but also were not seen as strongly involved with our country.
if you’re on zoom-Zoom has filters that remove background noise (you can toggle that off), so ice cream truck noise was not presented
Q: what are your thoughts about Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, mastermind of Project 2025 and a Catholic? Appreciate the 'dinner table' vibe of your conversation.
Republicans and conservatives weren’t necessarily racists. But they knew that they could use racism, especially in the former Confederacy, to get the majority they needed to get what they wanted-the power to cut taxes and regulation for corporations and the wealthy. The same goes for other wedge issues like abortion, anti LGBTQ, and anti immigration and anti union.
The power over dynamic wielded by the white owning class is inherently racist. They don't have to run around lynching people to harm them. The notion that there has to be sentiment to make it racist (agressive) and the absensrnce of hatred (passive) isn't harmful has a blind eye component to it.
Hey bro, I hate to break this to you, but.....I could NOT hear any hint of any ice cream truck. Sorry.
It still baffles me that confederate slave holders were able to convince poor non-slave owners to fight in the civil war to keep slavery even though ending slavery would mean PAYING jobs available that they could be hired to do.
I love the end. 😂💙💙🌈🌎
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Is he describing communists or republicans
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Income inequality is on purpose. It’s not a side effect of the system, it is the goal of our current system.
Why? Because it’s not enough to be rich. It is also necessary that other people are poor so that rich people can control them with money. A person who is one paycheck away from being homeless can’t push back against their boss, no matter how abusive.
I went to the Soviet Union as a teen - I left and became an anarchist.
I’m Lakota so I am definitely anti American and anti capitalist but it tuned be into an anarchist because what I saw was just another version of capitalism and the same police state as here
Robber Barons Era redux.
I certainly appreciate your podcast…I’m not sure “ enjoy “ is the correct adjective.