Charles Blow

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1,316 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 6 Feb

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The Don Lemon Show · Don Lemon & Charles Blow On Trump's America: What do we do now? · 9 May 2025 podcast

So they make exceptions so that they can maintain the rule.

Yeah.

And so when you realize that you are the exception that's being used to maintain the rule, the only way that you can be part of the handsome or beautiful black people group that they allow in is that they are keeping the rest of us out.

Right.

And the only reason you're there is that you're exceptional.

So you get to be there.

It is implicit to the moment he said that I will never be back here again.

Yeah.

Because what you are doing is using me.

to make sure that no one feels like

You're being discriminatory.

You're using me as the rule, as the exception to the rule, which is to keep all of the rest of the people like me out.

Yeah.

And thus this moment that we're in, I think we're explaining that everything that they're trying to do to get rid of diversity, equity and inclusion, the importance of black history, the contributions of black people.

And when you look at what they're doing and how they're handling it now, it really is.

They're doing the exact opposite of what they think they're doing.

They're proving that there is no white supremacy, that they're not superior, that they are, in many ways, a lot less talented and a lot less smarter than many people of color in this country.

It proves the Toni Morrison quote, which she says when she was young and, you know, that white people were treated different and weird, and her father wasn't having any of it.

She says, I always knew I had the moral of the hand.

I always knew that you were deficient because you were doing this thing.

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