Did for me. Im Alayna Treene traveling with the Trump Campaign and this is cnn thanks for joining me on Jim Acosta in for fredricka whitfield. We are heading into the Home Stretch in the race for the White House, the election theres now just a month away in both candidates are out in full force hitting the Campaign Trail. For those last minute undecided voters in critical Battleground States with voting already underway in several states polls look at this, showing the race is still neck and neck. Both Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump, are campaigning at some very big and important news stories, or having the potential to shape, shape this race in reshape at time. And again, war in the Middle East, the devastating aftermath of helene and a surprisingly strong jobs report that just came out yesterday any minute. Now, Vice President harris will depart Washington And Flight in North Carolina to survey the aftermath. Of helene and that important state. She is set
Reacts to it and grapples with it. So today i want to frame our discussion around a couple of quotations. The first is from the anthropologist and fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely described in racialized terms. Assures sins of its essential badness is frequently framed and racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially country is bad music because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked mutual condition as locking or trying to shed race, but as marked of cultural identity. Bad whiteness, and redeem by ethnicity, folklore authenticity, progressive politics or than no plus a bleach of elites. I want us to think about that, Country Music as articulating current being this type of marked white particularity. So thats the first quote, the second. Its from the writer and historian roxanne dunn bar, and her book red dirt. Which is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma, she writes. Country music, wrote patriotism, evangelism,
Anthropologists erin fox. Fox writes, Country Music is widely disparaged in racialized terms and assertions of its essential ban is are frequently framed and specifically racial terms. For many cosmopolitan americans, especially, country is bad music precisely because it is widely understood to signify an explicit claim to whiteness. Not as an unmarked neutral condition of lacking or trying to shed race, but as a mark for a grounded claim of cultural identity, bad whiteness, and redeemed by ethnicity. Folklore ache authenticity, a league musical culture. I want us to think about that. Country music as articulating and conveying this type of very marked white particularly. All right, so that is the first quote. The second is from the writer and historian roxanne dumb bar ortiz in her book red dirt. It is a great memoir of growing up in oklahoma. She writes, Country Music, evangelism, romanticism, patriotism and White Supremacy have been able to coalesce my people, the descendants of the
Good evening, and thank you for joining us. Im senior investigator reporter stephen stock. It took bay area counties a little more than six weeks to issue stay at home orders after the first case of covid19 was discovered here in the area. The white house too was slow to react. But could local governments have been better prepared . A report by california state auditors says yes. And that report says many counties throughout the state still have a long way to go. The images of the wildfires of 2017 and 2018 remain unforgettable, seared into the consciousness of residents who watched their homes burn. Those fires prompted the state auditor last december to find that california is not adequately prepared to protect its most vulnerable residents from future natural disasters. The auditor says that counties hit by those fires, quote, did not follow key practices for emergency planning, that each county lacked a complete, updated emergency plan. Ray kelly i think that we all can do better.
Good evening, and thank you for joining us. Im senior investigator reporter stephen stock. It took bay area counties a little more than six weeks to issue stay at home orders after the first case of covid19 was discovered here in the area. The white house too was slow to react. But could local governments have been better prepared . A report by california state auditors says yes. And that report says many counties throughout the state still have a long way to go. The images of the wildfires of 2017 and 2018 remain unforgettable, seared into the consciousness of residents who watched their homes burn. Those fires prompted the state auditor last december to find that california is not adequately prepared to protect its most vulnerable residents from future natural disasters. The auditor says that counties hit by those fires, quote, did not follow key practices for emergency planning, that each county lacked a complete, updated emergency plan. Ray kelly i think that we all can do better.