Jamel Bouie

They took $75 billion from Medicaid to give to ICE and to give to people who are violating your rights.

They did illegal tariffs, and now if there are refunds, you're not going to get them back.

You're not going to get them back.

You'll never see that money again.

Sure thing.

This has been the theme for my recommendations this month.

Just like watching, you know, Black history movies, movies from Black directors, movies about subjects related to Black history.

So I watched the 2021 documentary MLK FBI, which is more or less about the FBI's

long surveillance of MLK during his life.

It's fascinating stuff, has a lot of great commentary from historians and people who knew King, who are still living.

So I really recommend it.

And you can actually do a double feature with another documentary that's a little older than that, 2018.

called King in the Wilderness, which is about King's last years alive, sort of the year 66 to 68.

So both two great documentaries on, you know, maybe the darker parts of King's experience and King's life during those years.

And...

I've also read a book by the historian Thomas Ricks, Waging a Good War, about the civil rights movement.

And, you know, one of the things I've taken away from this kind of somewhat immersion in all of this is just how extraordinary that struggle was, the people involved in that struggle.

And how I do think that in addition to how our—

National mythologizing of the movement and its participants kind of sands away the radicalism.

I think it also sands away the really extraordinary heroism at great cost to health and lives.