Gene Demby
speaker
76 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Gene Demby’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Wow.
Exactly.
And there's a word she uses for that pattern.
She calls it the boomerang.
The idea that what a government builds to control or harm people on the margins eventually comes back around to everybody.
And Rebecca Nagel says there's a way that our government treated Native people, treated Indigenous people as a blueprint for a lot of other stuff.
No.
And that's kind of the point.
Like the fund may be frozen, but the machinery for it is still very much in place.
And at the same time, the Justice Department is actively trying to stop slavery reparations efforts happening at the local level, not the federal level, but like in cities and states.
Just days ago, the Justice Department announced a motion to intervene in a program in suburban Chicago.
that was giving millions in cash and assistance to descendants of Black residents as redress for things like discrimination in housing.
And the government called it a form of illegal race discrimination because other races besides Black people can't benefit.
Rooting for a nation.
I'm not even a soccer fan, but I'm just repping my people.
Or just appreciate the joy the beautiful game inspires.
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