Janai Nelson
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50 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 Feb
Janai Nelson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We cannot come to accept the fact that there is a person occupying the White House who is abusing government property and abusing this system to denigrate Black people and many others.
We cannot stand for that and act as if it's business as usual.
As much as we know it is frequent from him, it is his want to do this, we just cannot normalize it.
At the same time, we cannot be distracted by so many other atrocities that are happening at his behest.
Yeah, well, the first thing I think we need to be thinking about is the 77 million people who voted for him.
Where are they right now in their journey in this country in the 250th anniversary since the Declaration of Independence?
Is this the future America that they want to inhabit?
And there's a real question, because while they may want, as my brother Eddie says, they may want the whiteness without the responsibility to
They, with that, are also getting a grifter in the White House.
They're also getting fleeced in front of our very eyes.
We're also subject to ICE occupation and, in some cases, National Guard occupation in our cities.
So the trampling of state and local rights.
You're seeing the killing, kidnapping, and wanton assault of innocent Americans and residents at the behest of
Trump's henchmen and women.
So these are the things that come along with betting on and investing in a white supremacist grifter who has no morality.
So what organizations like LDF are doing is we are defending civil rights.
We are in the courts suing this administration.
We are disrupting much of their
unconstitutional and illiberal actions at the same time that we are planting seeds for the future on the other side of this administration, because there will be a future.
And the question is, are those 77 million who voted for him ready to occupy it in a very different way?
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