What is Black? Happy April Fools Year & the Words They Say to Make us Think They Aren't Bigots.

And what exactly do ya'll mean by "woke" when you say it in response to people resisting their own subjugation? Why would Van Jones applaud right wing views and also herald Kim K as the next coming of Malcolm in criminal justice reform? Why is the Mayor of Chicago so upset with one case, considering this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/feds-confirm-that-the-chicago-police-dept-is-as-corrup-1791173264/amp Are you melting too? Also, what is the line between conservatism and racism? Well, there is no line so why does that word conservative exist? What could possibly be conserved? Join us as we parse out "bold, left leaning ideas", red, blue, progressive, liberal and all the ways that white supremacy is upheld by any other name. The rhetoric is deadly. Recommended Reading: The Sarah Lawrence Protests, please stand with them and demand the university to meet the students' demands https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/03/13/students-sarah-lawrence-want-review-tenure-conservative-professor-who-criticized What happened there in New Zealand isn’t isolated, it becomes inevitable when islamaphobia is fostered in our government at the federal and state level it’s connections to all of the aforementioned (There is in danger in not considering all forms of violence and how they lead to death—- Ilhan Omar vilification leads to this kind of islamaophibia that is fatal) Excellent article on the white terror attack in New Zealand by Sahar Ghumkhor https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/hypocrisy-zealand-claim-190319104526942.html?fbclid=IwAR1-8BMzamsE04e1Zz5s07an6MgV2PWDTs5jj_0aq7dQoL7U4oTapCpxdhM Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder (black author) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/ebony-and-ivy-9781608193837/ Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Comments on Reparations https://medium.com/@SIIPCampaigns/the-congressional-black-caucus-needs-to-pass-a-reparations-bill-before-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-c3ef3c6ee438 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bet.com/news/national/2019/03/19/_who-is-black-_--alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-erasure-of-blackness-.amp.html Willie McCoy https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theroot.com/bodycam-footage-shows-vallejo-police-shoot-willie-mccoy-1833688793/amp Theme Music: Apathy Happy by Benjamin Earl Turner https://open.spotify.com/album/56MVukuaZLRsSvMHErDNo0 This episode is dedicated to Victor McElhaney and Ashanti Carmon