Episode

9/20 Lester Spence: The Black Lives Matter Platform

September 20, 2016

Lester Spence, a Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins, talks about the role of Police in creating social control. Policing, social control and political power. Police and class. Race and machine politics. The intersectional nature of the Black Lives Matter Platform. What it means to be black goes beyond police killings and abuse. The future of Black Lives Matter organizing. President Obama says his name “may not be on the ballot” but progress is. The problem with Obama’s argument. Why Donald Trump will be awful and not lead to revolutionary backlash and claiming that Trump and Clinton are the same is absurd.

On The Fun Half: debating the usefulness of the Green Party. Fox & Friends makes the mistake of asking bigoted questions to an actual law enforcement official. Hillary Clinton comments on Isis and Trump. Donald Trump has a “vision” for profiling. The time Chris Christie lied about his role in bridge closures. Reviewing Christie’s record on the bridge closures.  When Trump called Christie out out for the bridge closing and your calls and IMs.

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