Hi im Steve Clements and 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 ha
Engagement. The black lives matter of Global Network shegs also the cofounder of supermajority an organization for womens 5c9 vism and serves as a strategy and Partnership Director and hosts the partnership and culture podcast called lady dont take no. And i just want to say, alicia, you have, like, seven jobs. Right there thats seven fulltime jobs that you are working object at any one time. And we are so grateful that you have joined us today. So thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Lets start a little bit by talking about just how this summer has been obviously as one of the cofounders of the black lives patter movement, you have been centering some of the issues all of the issues, really, that have kind taken even a bigger place and center stage in National Politics and also just sort of National Conversation more generally this summer. And how do you feel today . Today is september 3rd, so we are almost at the end of summer. How do you feel looking at the Political Landscap
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Today. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Lets start by talking about how this summer has been. Obviously, as one of the cofounders of the black lives beenr movement, you have centering some of the issues, all of the issues, that have taken even a bigger place front and center stage in national politics, the national conversation, more generally. Lookingou feel today, at the Political Landscape today versus how you felt at the beginning of summer, early june . Like time is not a construct, but ever flowing. Ill say that in the beginning of the summer, we saw unprecedented rebellions spread not just across the country, but across the world. I think it has a lot to do with a few things. Number one, at this point black lives matter is kind of in the muscle memory of this nation. Getn years ago, we couldnt politicians to say black lives matter. We couldnt get a lot of people to say black lives matter. We got a lot of all lives matter, blue lives matter, every life except for black