The United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvard and princeton universitys hes written 20 books and he still has time for his new weekly podcast and its great that tight rope. Professor west thank you so much for joining us recently i was at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture and i saw the emmett till way i saw the wing that tells the story of the horrifying near genocide in tulsa in 1921 and if you can occur to me that george floyd a modern arbor Rionda Taylor could one day be a wing in a museum and we would still have everything the same today so let me just ask you bluntly is this is in Inflection Point to you or do you think that this is just
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob lake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at har
Hi im Steve Clements i have a question is there a connection between the shooting of jacob blake and can osha wall street capitalism and Excessive Military spending my guest today says there is lets get to the bottom line. When a policeman shot jacob blake 7 times in the back in front of his kids in wisconsin last month it was a painful reminder that real change is not coming fast enough to these United States the shooting reignited passions across the country especially after an armed white 17 year old counter protester came to wisconsin from a nearby state until 2 other people protesting the shooting so whats going on in the United States are we heading down a healthy road will race continue to be used cynically to get votes while the poor and disadvantaged continue to suffer endlessly joining us today is someone who has been thinking of preaching about these issues for decades he is professor cornell west one of the most prominent intellectuals alive professor west teaches at harvar
The politicking on larry king with millions of americans hoping for additional stimulus checks and enhanced Unemployment Benefits can the parties agree on another bipartisan call the 19 relief package were talking about that would be honest to Senate Former u. S. Representative from ohio a former mayor of cleveland and a candidate for the democratic president ial nomination in 20042008 ok millions of americans hanging on to this whats going to happen and so theyre going to come to an agreement well they better have a situation where people are worried about being evicted about going into foreclosure they need money the government has no trouble when it comes to propping up wall street we have to do main street and that of course is going to me another stimulus check and it has to me Unemployment Benefits extended as well. If you were in congress what would be your plan well i do a couple things 1st of all i think that we are at the point where we need a bill that i talked about years a
Time for a National Health care program and its its astonishing to me larry that the democrats can take a stand for this in the platform in this election that they cannot say once and for all we have to have health care for all of our people if nothing else but what does it take that you cant even get it with a pandemic i mean come on. Harry truman proposed that in 1946. The year i was born so look i brought its the Democratic Platform Committee in 2000 and i was told by the Gore Campaign then that you know they asked me not to present it and so you have course i presented it anyway but the point is that this is an idea whose time its come again and again and again and now during the pandemic it is urgent that we strengthen the Health Safety net by making sure that everyone has access to health care and that the government plays a significant role in helping to pay for it one quote can President Trump do in this economy cant spend money thats congress can issue an executive order what