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In his Daily Show debut, Trevor Noah admits to Host Jon Stewart that with rampant racial inequality and Ebola outbreaks, Trevor hesitated to visit a country as troubled as the U.S. Trevor and Jon also examine the international tensions underlying the Chess Olympiad. And, Jon Stewart surprises Trevor in the studio.

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In today's episode, Andy & DJ discuss Fox having to pay nearly $800M to settle the Dominion defamation suit, China's development of the Covid-19 vaccine beginning before the official outbreak started, and Robert Kennedy Jr. launching his Presidential campaign in Boston.

Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw and producer CJ Hunt join Roy Wood Jr. to break down what critical race theory actually is and discuss the threat posed by the blowback against it.

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“What if instead of a feelings advocacy we had an outcome advocacy that put equitable outcomes before our guilt and anguish?” wrote Ibram X. Kendi in his 2019 book “How to Be an Antiracist.” “What if we focused our human and fiscal resources on changing power and policy to actually make society, not just our feelings, better?”

When I first read “How to Be an Antiracist” in the fall of 2019, I was struck by Kendi’s relentless focus on outcomes. For him, racism wasn’t about what you intended, or what you felt. If a given policy or action reduced racial inequality, it was antiracist; if it increased racial inequality, it was racist. If you support policies that reduce racial inequality you are being antiracist; if you aren’t, you’re being racist. That’s it.

These days, Kendi needs little introduction. “How to Be an Antiracist” has become one of the signature texts of the post-George Floyd moment. And Kendi himself has become a central figure of the antiracist movement, having launched a vast array of projects, from his new podcast, “Be Antiracist,” to his children’s book “Antiracist Baby” to his Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University.

But I’ve often wondered about the genuine radicalism of Kendi’s work as it has phased from book to phenomenon. There are certainly some people who are doing the real, hard analytical and empirical work that Kendi actually calls for. But a lot of what occurs under the banner of “antiracism” is putting up yard signs, publicly acknowledging privilege and issuing statements of solidarity without the consequentialist analysis he demands.

So I wanted to have a conversation that really took Kendi’s approach to antiracism seriously. Spoiler alert: It’s hard. We discuss policy issues ranging from police defunding to open borders and interest rates, the research on corporate diversity and inclusion trainings, the political tradeoffs of Barack Obama’s presidency, the cases where a policy might reduce racial inequality but the backlash to it might increase it, the right-wing assault on critical race theory, visions of a positive-sum racial future and much more.

References:

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Book recommendations: 

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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On the one-year commemoration of George Floyd’s death, more black people are dying…and not at the hands of the cops; the broader “racial reckoning” continues with propagandistic efforts to tear down America’s institutions; and the New York Times notices that Democrats aren’t very loud about the border anymore.

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Derek Chauvin is convicted on all charges; President Biden and Co-President Harris celebrate, while Nancy Pelosi thanks George Floyd for being killed; and the Democrats call for tearing down America’s supposedly racist systems.

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The Daily Wire responds to the Derek Chauvin trial verdict. 

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“The American landscape was once graced with resplendent public swimming pools, some big enough to hold thousands of swimmers at a time,” writes Heather McGhee in her new book, “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.” These pools were the pride of their communities, monuments to what public investment could do. But they were, in many places, whites-only. Then came the desegregation orders. The pools would need to be open to everyone. But these communities found a loophole. They could close them for everyone. Drain them. Fill them with concrete. Shutter their parks departments entirely. And so they did.

It’s a shocking tale. But it’s too easily dismissed as yet one more story of America’s racist past. McGhee shows otherwise. Drained-pool politics are still with us today and shaping issues of far more consequence than pool access. Drained-pool politics — if “they” can also have it, then no one can — helps explain why America still doesn’t have a truly universal health care system, a child care system, a decent social safety net. McGhee, the former president of the think tank Demos, offers a devastating tour of American public policy, and she shows how drained-pool politics have led to less for everyone, not just their intended targets.

I asked McGhee to join me for a discussion about drained-pool politics, the zero-sum stories at the heart of American policymaking, how people define and understand their political interests, and the path forward. This is, in my view, a hopeful book, and a hopeful conversation. There are so many issues where the trade-offs are real, and binding. But in this space, there are vast “solidarity dividends” just waiting for us, if we are willing to stand with, rather than against, each other.

Recommendations: 

"Parable of the Sower" by Octavia E. Butler

"The Color of Law" by Richard Rothstein

“Good Times” (TV series)

"The Word Collector" by Peter H. Reynolds

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show we are going to discuss the horrific murder of a young mother in Chicago. The crime was caught on tape and the footage is perhaps the worst thing you’ll ever see. Yet the case was ignored by BLM and Antifa. Also Five Headlines including the claim from an ACLU lawyer that JK Rowling is contributing to “genocide” by defending biological reality. And Joe Biden is the subject of today’s Daily Cancellation.

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Most Americans agree that police brutality and rioting are wrong – so why are our political class indicting Americans for the death of George Floyd? Plus, there’s some good news: apparently protesting racism grants us all immunity to covid-19!

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As protests spread over the death of George Floyd, the former officer at the center of the case has been charged with murder. We listen in on the demonstrations, and examine why this tragedy — though too familiar — may be a turning point. Guest: Audra D. S. Burch, a national enterprise correspondent for The Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

Background reading:

• Derek Chauvin, a former police officer, was charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for kneeling on the neck of Mr. Floyd for nearly nine minutes as he repeatedly pleaded “I can’t breathe.”
• In the year before their fatal encounter, Mr. Floyd and Mr. Chauvin worked at the same nightclub.
• Protests over racism and police violence have erupted across the U.S. Follow the latest updates.