Heather Ann Thompson
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670 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jun
Heather Ann Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
But the reason is because he was so determined actually to deal with those racial divisions and to deal with those economic inequalities.
And one of the ways to understand Trump, and I think you're hinting at this,
is that for people who had worked so hard to make sure rich people didn't have to pay taxes, to make sure that there was no regulations on business, that had taken a long time, a lot of effort.
Obama was like, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
We're not going back to the social safety net.
We're not going to go back to supporting that broader public.
And so the backlash to Obama was also really crafted to maintain the power of wealthy people.
And so it's so interesting the way your words, justice, race, power, they're all so intimately connected.
We just have to be careful to make sure that we understand that.
what's causing what, because it's so easy to go to the end of the story and say, oh, I guess everyone's just racist.
Oh, I guess that this is just the way this country is.
Oh, yeah.
It is our greatest curse in this country that we are okay with it, that we endorse it, that we've legitimized it, and that we turn a blind eye to it.
There is truth.
There is truth.
It is not elusive.
It is not mythical.
The truth matters.
And with enough care and enough compassion, we can actually tell the truth about things, even if it's painful.
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