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It isn't daily you get to speak to the president, and Princeton Prof. Eddie Glaude tells The New Irregular’s Molly Jong-Quick that he wasn’t going to let the profundity of the state of affairs cease him from telling “probably the most highly effective man on this planet” that he had an opportunity to “usher in a brand new America.”
Glaude, an skilled on African American research and host of the Historical past Is USpodcast, mentioned Individuals have to talk up loudly for democracy or threat seeing the nation slide backwards.
“What I’ve witnessed over President Biden’s first time period is that our drawback on this nation cuts a lot deeper than simply merely the illiberalism of the Republican Occasion or the violence of Trumpism. It cuts a lot deeper than that. It goes all the way in which to the Democratic Occasion, to on a regular basis abnormal people who find themselves keen to be complicit of their silence. So we have now a lot extra to do if we’re going to avoid wasting the Republic,” he mentioned.
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“I’ve watched the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act languish in Congress. I’ve watched the assault on Crucial Race Concept. I’ve watched ‘Don’t Say Homosexual’ legal guidelines, watched Roe V Wade about to be overturned, and I noticed that this was actually an all out assault on the revolutions of the mid twentieth century. That we needed to return, that there was this nostalgic longing, and, in fact, on the middle of it was by the Jan. 6 revolt and also you heard ‘Cease the Steal’ and you understand, ‘we’re gonna take again our nation.’”
“[Biden] was the primary vice chairman to the primary African American president, he's the primary president to have the primary African American vice chairman. He might usher in a brand new America, change the middle of gravity of the nation, if he dared to be daring.
“The dimensions of the issues we face requires a response at scale,” he mentioned.
Plus, Beast contributor Francisco Alvarado joins the pod to speak about his reporting on a petition underway in Nebraska to require folks to current IDs when voting in elections. A police investigation has been sparked over claims that petition circulators have fraudulently been accumulating signatures. And who's bankrolling the voter ID marketing campaign? None aside from Marlene Ricketts—the billionaire co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and mom of Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts.
“She donated $376,000 in July of final yr and that’s principally what the [voter ID] committee has been operating and working on this whole time,” Alvarado mentioned.
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