TRUMP HAS LOST IT (Ft. Don Lemon, Charles F. Coleman Jr., and MORE)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hassan is right, and I've been saying it for a while. The energy on the Democratic Party, the energy is on the progressive side. So I am joined by some esteemed guests I'm so happy to have. Hassan Piker is here. He's a political commentator, a content creator who live streams daily on Twitch and on YouTube. And I am a huge fan, and I can only learn from his greatness here in the streaming world. Also joining us is Akilah Hughes.
Who are the guests featured in this discussion?
She's a writer, a comedian, and the host of the Rebel Spirit podcast. And then a little bit later on, Godfrey is going to join us, a comedian, an actor, a dear friend of the Don Lemon Show. After that, Katie Fang is going to join us. She's an attorney, a legal analyst, and the host of the Katie Fang Show right here on YouTube. Charles Coleman is an MSNBC legal analyst, former prosecutor, and a civil rights attorney will join us in a bit. Anna Navarro is a host of The View. She's going to be on. Sunny Hostin, a host of The View, will be on as well. So thank you for joining. You have been sitting patiently, Akilah. Hassan, you have been sitting here patiently.
I've had a lot of technical issues. Sorry.
That's okay. Akilah, there's no debating what this is.
Yeah, this is explicit racism. I don't think that it's even a new form of racism. It's actually kind of the oldest American racism is comparing Black people to apes and monkeys. So I really appreciate you saying we're not going to split hairs on whether it's racist or not, because it's a waste of everyone's time. It's racist. Somebody said hello in the comments. Hi. But I think what really struck me was how lazy Caroline Levitt's lie was today, like saying it's a frame from The Lion King when The Lion King for a very long time, most of my life was the highest grossing animated film. I don't know a single soul who hasn't seen it. We all know that there aren't gorillas in it and there certainly aren't palm trees that look like that.
It's just so stupid. And she, you know, really boasts about being a young mother and being pregnant and having a kid on the way. And I'm like, well, do you watch the movies your kids are watching? Because this is the most popular animated film, you know, before Frozen and I guess most recently Zootopia 2. So I think it's like actually damning to come up with a very lazy lie, which also like to your point, makes it easy for the president to undermine her and say well he's just another person who works here without naming that person without calling for them to be fired without a real apology um just more of the same and so i think especially in black history month it's like a real slap in the face to black people in this country um but you know it's just more of the same from this racist administration hassan what do you say
I mean, I think as the as the white guy on the panel, it's probably not my place to say this, but I have this theory of permissible racism that the broad majorities of white people who might share racialized animus might consider to be like somewhat permissible because anti-blackness is baked into every orifice of American society. And there are a couple of things that you can't you can't touch. Right. There's a couple of things that when you do it, even other racist white people will go, oh, that's a little bit too much for me. And I feel like obviously the most the classic example of this is is perhaps best demonstrated by Lee Atwater, famous Republican strategist Lee Atwater, that said you can't say the N-word anymore after the after the civil rights movement.
So you'd like find different ways of analogizing the N-word by N-word. attacking black people from the point of welfare, claiming that black people are welfare queens, things like that, that Ronald Reagan did. We all know that Donald Trump is racist. We all know that he is deeply invested in anti-blackness as a primary part of his politics. I mean, this is the same person that took out a full-page ad in the New York Times to demand the execution of the Central Park Five. This is a person whose family was prosecuted by the federal government for refusing to rent out their properties to black people.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:24
2
Who are the guests featured in this discussion?
0:24–5:57
3
What examples of racism are highlighted in Trump's actions?
5:57–7:23
4
How do the guests react to Trump's racist meme?
7:23–11:24
5
What is the significance of the 'permissible racism' concept?
11:24–28:03
6
How are Trump's actions impacting the Democratic Party's strategy?
28:03–45:20