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The Charlie Kirk Show
It Used to Be Controversial to Say 'Your Kids Don't Belong to You'
"Now Melissa Harris Perry is not a name that you might know, but Melissa Harris Perry was someone that I knew of, quite well. Because she used to be on MSNBC all the time, she was considered to be the more radical voice on cable television for years. Another Marxist. I even seen her very much recently she was fired from MSNBC. She was joy read before joy Reid. And honestly, a little bit more articulate than joy Reid. Let me tell you. Just kind of the ability to make arguments really quickly. I don't really know what happened to Melissa Harris Perry. Perhaps she was too radical for her own good. She said things out loud that she shouldn't have said I think she has her own political consulting firm. She was fired in 2016, three years after this particular clip, surface. I remember when this clip came out, people used to get fired for saying this. People used to have to retreat for saying this very clip. This used to be considered controversial this used to be considered something that not worth commenting, where she said, remember your kids don't belong to you. Now she's a professor and a political commentator. And now this viewpoint is held by the progressive collectivist status Democrat left it's just that she happened to say it out loud. Play cut 45. We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've always had kind of a private notion of children. Your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven't had a very collective notion of these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize the kids belong to whole communities. Once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the households, then we start making better investments. We have to realize the kids are a community object, not that it's part of your nuclear family, of course not. Now, interestingly enough, she's now an employee of national public radio so your tax dollars are paying for Melissa Harris
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He set up a chemistry lab winnings twelve. Change the very air. We breeze only smokes. Media's crying we're committing leaning rock it's everywhere turns into like thorium then turns into radon and turns into bismuth is accidental. I see it as the majesty of god's hand from radio lab heavy metal. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Melissa harris perry and this is the takeaway on wednesday the us senior special envoy. To haiti daniel foot resigned. He made his resignation letter public in part through social media and it reads in part quote. I will not be associated with the us inhumane. Counterproductive decision to deport thousands of haitian refugees and illegal immigrants to haiti a country where american officials are confined to secure compounds because of the danger posed by armed gangs and control of daily life. Our policy approach to haiti remains deeply flawed and my recommendations have been ignored dismissed when not edited to project a narrative. Different from my own. Foot's resignation comes just days after photos and videos catcher officers of the border patrol mounted on horseback chasing and abusing haitian migrants. Those border agents have been temporarily suspended but the white house continue to stand by their enforcement of title. Forty two worth noting. That policy has in fact been blocked by federal court and ordered to halt by the end of the month. Here's jen psaki. It's also important for people to understand what our process and our immigration process is and what the steps are that are taken. We are still under title forty two because we are in a global pandemic as of thursday according to the department of homeland security. The number of haitians in del rio texas is down from roughly fifteen thousand on september. Eighteenth to about seven thousand as deportations continue some of turned back to mexico and others have been moved to another area for processing. Patrick gaspard is president and ceo of the center for american progress and he traveled to the border this week. He joins me now. Patrick welcome good day melissa. Thank you for having me on this troubling moments. Let's just start with Your experiences what did you see at the border. It's one of the most difficult things that i've ever experienced. Melissa i think you know that i am Haitian american and it was difficult to be there and not appreciate that It's only an accident of birth and accidents of geography that. Put me on one side of the fence while i looked at thousands of Haitians mostly women With young children who were living in squalor who are incredibly vulnerable condition. I saw one woman who was very pregnant. going into contractions while her husband calls for help thousands of others Literally sitting in mud having their meals in march trying to care for their children underneath. This bridge I want to applaud the volunteers who've come down to lend humanitarian relief particularly from the world Central kitchen and It's important to commend the residents of the very small town of del. Rio who have done their level. Best to lend some kind of support as well but given that we live in The wealthiest country in the history of humanity It was very very difficult to see the circumstances under which people who are seeking asylum from natural disaster from political violence and economic dislocation Or being held at our border. Are you surprised to find. Conditions like this at our southern border Fairly well into the biden administration. I was compelled to go for the go to the border because like Most americans i was shocked into stirred by the images of mistreatment and cruelty towards those migrants in a seven secrets that we all saw. We all saw the images. It's important that the department of homeland security in the white house announced yesterday that there are not that they're discontinuing the use of horses In that manner they've suspended the agents that were involved in that of violation. But that's what compelled to to go to the border. We should all be appalled at that. Yes i continue to be disturbed irrespective of the party affiliation of Officeholders that we would up. End our own Norms entreat By glisten asylum seekers in this fashion. I'll be minded. Melissa that this administration is operating right now in violation of an order from a federal judge who told them that they can no longer continue. Use abuse Title forty two as a way of forcefully the expelling asylum-seekers. So i'm thinking here of senator ted cruz. When he heard that you know the the border patrol would no longer be using horses. He kind of you know joked about it in a in a tweet in which he showed you know presumably like a cat on a unicorn saying this is what border patrol would now be like a and i thought to myself you know the the notion that are partisanship our internal domestic politics so affects our ability to to read a humanitarian crisis. I wonder you know again particularly given your your leadership of cap like excuse me of the center for american progress. How do we get to a place where even across partisan lines We can see a humanitarian crisis as humanitarian not an opportunity to score partisan points. You know The senators behavior is on distant. And i'm bored with shoes has been nothing short of irresponsible and he. He has stoked some of the worst instincts. of our fellow americans. I'll tell you Appreciate how difficult all this is. You know that My past life. I was a a senior official in the obama administration. I've served overseas as An on behalf of the united states. And i know that there are complexities. Here and there's been a challenge to work in a multilateral with our partners Latin america to lift up a humane border administration that that being said There was a time when there used to be a more broad. Bipartisan consensus on how we receive Migrants and asylum seekers and it used to be a possible to develop real consensus between democrats. Republicans independents all americans. I still Appreciate in my experiences and again with my experiences with americans at the border in real yesterday there is.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"melissa harris perry" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"And p r X good to have you back with us? I'm Melissa Harris Perry Now. Last week, Mexico's Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision that ruled criminalizing abortion is unconstitutional. The decision does not make abortion legal in Mexico, but it means that thousands of people who have faced criminal charges for having the procedure will no longer be subjected to prosecution. The court decision brings into sharp relief the continuing rift in the 81% Catholic nation. Polls indicate that most Mexicans oppose abortion and Mexican medical professionals have the right to refuse treatment to those seeking abortion. Less than a quarter of Americans are Catholic. But Catholicism is an important aspect of the current battle over reproductive rights here in the U. S, as well. President Joe Biden is a devout Catholic and only the second Catholic president in the United States. And In addition, Catholics are overrepresented on the Supreme Court. Seven of the nine justices on the high court or raised Catholic and of those justices, only one Sonia Sotomayor is among the court's liberal contingent. According to Pew polling from 2020. A majority of Catholics in the U. S. Agreed that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, but the church disagrees. In June, The U. S conference of Catholic Bishops voted 1 68 to 55 to issue a new guidance, which could deny Eucharist to elected officials who support abortion rights. So just how does Catholicism informed the politics and policy of the U. S government and our neighbors in Mexico? Let's talk about that with Massimo Fagioli, who is professor of historical theology at Villanova University. And other of Joe Biden and Catholicism in the US Thanks for being here, Massimo. Thank you. Thank you very much. And also with us is Matthew Wilson, associate professor of political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and director of the Center of Faith and Learning. Nice to Have you with us, Matthew. Thank you for having me. So Matthew actually want to start with you just to lay out sort of the broadest possible strokes and acknowledging that there is some diversity across leadership in the U. S church. But how does the U S Catholic Church understand its role in influencing the political lives of its parishioners? Well, the church does not seek to provide direct guidance with regard to specific candidates and parties. That is not its political wolf. However, the church does see a role in strong role in forming the conscience of its members. That is giving them the principles of moral discernment to make moral judgments in the public square and to inform their values on questions ranging from the sanctity of life to human sexuality to justice for the poor, whole, comprehensive range of the church's social doctrine, so the church is really about forming conscience on issues. And then allowing individual Catholics to bring that formed conscience to bear in evaluating candidates and parties. Matthew want to stick with you for just one moment because you did lay out a broad agenda is the wrong word right? That sort of, but that broad moral compass made all of these different issues. And I think in many ways under Pope Francis, we have seen really that very broad agenda of Catholic priorities for grounding issues like immigration, poverty, climate change. And I'm wondering if the U. S. Is welcoming this sort of broad agenda. Or if this is a time of kind of emergent conservativism moving back, maybe towards the more narrow set of social and political questions or maybe social and moral questions that then impact the political sphere. Well, it's a tough balance and different members of the American Church hierarchy have somewhat different priorities. The church's teaching is a constant, that is all of the American Catholic bishops believe that abortion is morally wrong. All of the American Catholic bishops believe in the principle of economic justice and believe in treating immigrants humanely and fairly. Uh um and a whole range of other questions. The issue is how you prioritize those issues. Not every issue is an equal magnitude. And so what The bishops that had to sort through is whether some questions are more morally fundamental than others and whether some questions permit more room for dissent among Catholics in practice than others do. Certainly, Pope Francis has sought to emphasize a very broad range of Catholic social teaching from teaching on immigration teaching on the environment, too, including issues of abortion, including issues of, uh, marriage and sexuality up Some in the American Church. They'll have pushed back and said, we risk creating the illusion. That every moral issue is equal moment and import, And they would disagree and say that abortion is a more fundamental and pressing evil than some of these other concerns. So that's where you get the tension within the Episcopal on what the social and political approach should be. That's really helpful to think of it as sort of that priority ranking or that priority. Emphasis must let me come to you on this and in some ways, sort of draw your attention in the same way that I was trying to understand how the U. S Catholic Church understands its role in influencing the social moral lives of its parishioners, which is then meant to impact their political choices. In a similar way. How how do you read or understand how church leadership sees its role in affecting political leadership in the US, particularly those political leaders who are themselves Catholic? Like President Biden? This is a very complicated question, because on the background, there's one fundamental difference between Catholicism, for example, in Europe and in North America, For example, in Europe, capital leaders accepted the fundamental secular nature of the state. And so this is something that Is still quite controversial for US Catholic leaders. And so that's number one and number two is the so US Catholic bishops have had historically a complicated relationship with the U. S. Catholic politicians running for office, especially the presidency. Beginning with Al Smith in 1928. When back then the major issue was to keep a safe distance for John Kennedy 1960. All these issues abortion, bioethics LGBT issues, they did not exist simply So issues become much more complicated in the early two thousands, with John Kerry running in 2000 and four and with Joe Biden in 2020. Now there's a paradox that we can see that US Catholic bishops were much closer in the majority, but not all of them invest majority of of the U. S. Calvary Bishopsconference. Was much much closer to a born again Christian, like George W. Bush or even to President elect Donald Trump than to a very devout Catholic like like Joe Biden. We're going to take a quick break. Massimo Matthew, Stick with me. Listeners stick with me. We're talking Catholicism in us politics on the take away back in just a moment..
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"melissa harris perry" Discussed on WBEZ Chicago
"This is the takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris Perry All this week. Our guests and you Have shared your recollections of the September 11th terrorist attacks with us. I was a kid in college. I was home for the summer and I remember my father woke me up frantic. And we sat in front of the T V set and watch the second plane go into the second tower. Activist Valery Core, remembers the horror of watching the televised attacks that day. And she recalls her painful realization that this action likely would have personal consequences. My uncle, My father's brother works a few blocks away from the World Trade Center, and so we were, you know, panicked and trying to call him make sure that he was okay. He got out. But within minutes really, I remember. You know, the towers kept falling on this endless loop. And then soon there was this image of Osama bin Laden and I realized that our nation's new enemy looked like my family. Valerie's family of origin. Her community is sick American citizen was founded in the 15th century on the Indian subcontinent, and the faith does not share a common history or geography with Islam. But these realities were irrelevant to those acting out of a rage fueled Islamophobia in the month following 9 11. Within hours, there was news of hate violence erupting on city streets across the country. Against Muslim Americans and also against my community. Sick Americans. Many of our men were turbines as part of our faith. And so we were at the forefront of that violence. The alarming violence soon became even more personal for Valerie. Four days later, on September 15th. I got the phone call from Arizona, that will be your uncle had been killed. He was a family friend. A sick father, who is standing in front of his gas station, planting flowers when a man shot him five times in the back and called himself a patriot. When arrested Barber sing Sodi was the first person to be murdered in a hate crime following September 11th. Valerie has spent the years since his murder advocating for the sick American community and others targeted and impacted by hate. You know, for for many sick and Muslim Americans, we were afraid of the next terrorist attack. And then we were afraid of walking out of our home for fear that we would be killed or beaten or harmed by our own neighbors. And when I think about that kind of fear it is. It is an ancient fear. Um, my grandfather sailed by steam ship from India to America in 1913. So my family has lived and farmed in California for 100 years. And my grandfather and his generation of immigrants. They fought for equal rights alongside black leaders who made sure that we had equal protection under the law. And so we had this Notion of linear progress. You know that our grandparents sacrificed so that we would be more free. And there were waves of hate before 9 11 you know, after the Iran hostage crisis, my grandfather Used to be called Santa Claus, Santa Claus when riding around on his horse and buggy in our small farming town, But after their on highest hostage crisis, he was called the Ayatollah. After the first Persian Gulf War. There was a wave of hate against us. After the Oklahoma City bombing, where the perpetrator was white..
KQED Radio
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"This is the takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris Perry All this week. Our guests and you Have shared your recollections of the September 11th terrorist attacks with us. I was a kid in college. I was home for the summer and I remember my father woke me up frantic and we sat in front of the T V set and watch the second plane go into the second tower. Activist Valery Core, remembers the horror of watching the televised attacks that day. And she recalls her painful realization that this action likely would have personal consequences. My uncle, My father's brother works a few blocks away from the World Trade Center, and so we were, you know, panicked and trying to call him make sure that he was okay. He got out. But within minutes really, I remember. You know, the towers kept falling on this endless loop. And then soon there was this image of Osama bin Laden and I realized that our nation's new enemy looked like my family. Valerie's family of origin. Her community is sick American citizen was founded in the 15th century on the Indian subcontinent, and the faith does not share a common history or geography with Islam. But these realities were irrelevant to those acting out of a rage fueled Islamophobia in the month following 9 11. Within hours, there was news of hate violence erupting on city streets across the country. Against Muslim Americans and also against my community. Sick Americans. Many of our men were turbines as part of our faith. And so we were at the forefront of that violence. The alarming violence soon became even more personal for Valerie. Four days later, on September 15th. I got the phone call from Arizona, that will be your uncle had been killed. He was a family friend, a sick father, who is standing in front of his gas station planting flowers when a man shot him five times in the back and called himself a patriot. When arrested, harassing Saudi was the first person to be murdered in a hate crime. Following September. 11th. Valerie has spent the years since his murder advocating for the sick American community and others targeted impacted by hate. You know, for.
The Takeaway
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"Resilience in these moments. When i see neighbors helping neighbors when i get stories from people saying hey cindy i'm cooking. You know enough food service. A hundred people. Where where can i go. You know and i see that over and over melissa and is so beautiful to see into watch how you know. Residents taking charge of their neighborhood. I'm honor and happy to play a very small part part disconnect people together and collaborate with them when they have issues and really give them the power of of taking charge right because as citizens we need to take charge about neighborhood and as i see little kids are sucker for children melissa six. I have six children. I'm expecting to grandbabies. Have one coming in three weeks. One coming six months Seeing kids being strong is smiling and just helping their parents that also bring joy to me but yeah just seen everybody working together and moving out community forward councilwoman cindy win council member for district e in the city of new orleans. Thank you so much for joining the takeaway. Thank you so much for having me melissa. Alright y'all that's all we have for you today and as always we appreciate you tuning in if you missed anything or you wanna listen back. Check out our podcast. You can find us wherever you get your audio or head on over to the takeaway dot. Org and as we approach the twenty year. Mark of nine eleven. We want to hear from you. How are you feeling about this. Painful moment in our national history. How will you be thinking about and marking the day this year. Give us a call at eight. Seven seven eight might take. That's eight seven. Seven eight six nine eight two five three or recorded voice memo on your phone and then send it to us at takeaway collars at g mail dot com. Thanks so much for listening. I'm melissa harris perry this is the takeaway and we're going to be back with you tomorrow..
KQED Radio
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"The world and unflinching look at the future of artificial intelligence. Kaifu Lee has been at the cutting edge of a I for two decades and was president of Google, China, the conversation and much more ahead too. On the world on KQED Public radio in 30 minutes. This is the takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris Perry. Now, if you've seen the show superstore that ran on NBC, you know that most of the story line revolves around the many labor issues affecting its characters. Most of the time the workers are trying to unionize. While management tries to prevent those efforts. Studies show that employees at a nonunion facility are more engaged and happier. Yeah, don't try to come between me and Cloud nine. That's my bad well, said recent reporting from the American Prospect tells the inside story of real life anti union action in a plant based meat substitute company in North Carolina. Known as and I swear this is true. No evil foods. Workers at no evil food started a union drive in early 2019 and before the vote scheduled in February of 2020. Management hired a consulting firm that specializes in union avoidance. And then they held mandatory meeting for employees. Here's one no evil foods manager talking to workers in one of those meetings. So why am I making all these points about the importance of investment dollars? Well, Because it's a very.
The Takeaway
"melissa harris perry" Discussed on The Takeaway
"Welcome to the takeaway. Melissa harris perry. I'm in here grew into the riots and thinking about my kids. I had my first daughter when i was twenty. It was easy from conception through full-term delivery unassisted by pain. Medication at basically felt like a pregnancy superhero then came a decade of fibroids anemia aging and surgery. And when my second daughter was born i was forty and it was not easy. It took two families three states for doctors five attorneys dozens of shots a multitude of tears and prayers to get my second daughter. Here tell the story. Because i want you to know just how deeply i understand the fear. Agony and expense of infertility. Anyone who has walked through the shadow of the valley of ivf has encountered dozens of home remedies. Meth lies and superstitions. Right now one particularly vicious inaccuracy has taken root in the public consciousness. There are people who want to stop others from getting kobe. Vaccines by lying putting out misinformation or distorting known as a result fertility specialists across the world have been planning questions from women who have cloven vaccines may make them permanently sterile. My patients are afraid of their fertility. Their future pregnancy their children one question is come up is. Is it possible that these vaccines could affect my ability to get pregnant. The insurance no to be clear. There is zero science to support this claim. Sip zilch zero. In fact the clearly recommends that pregnant women should be vaccinated in order to protect both themselves and the pregnancies from the corona virus yet despite public health officials using multi-layered public information campaigns to spread the truth about the safety of covered. Vaccines the vicious inaccuracy linking the vaccines to infertility has proven difficult to shape. Why is this false claim so intractable and what can we do to combat misinformation like this to answer those questions and more rejoin now by ana north senior correspondent at. Vox anna always great to have you with us. Thanks so much for having me. So let's just start. What is the source of this infertility. Myth yes so. I think there have been a few things that have sort of sort of combined to form this this strand misinformation One thing is that We've seen reports that You know when people go and get the vaccine that might affect their menstrual cycle. A little bit now. This isn't necessarily surprising. Scientists say that the menstrual cycle is linked to the immune system and since the vaccine acts on them system. It's not strange. If for example. Maybe someone experiences a heavier period one month or maybe they're a tiny bit early or late to be clear. This doesn't impact fertility. And it doesn't mean you are infertile when you get the vaccine by any stretch of the imagination however i think that the The effect on the menstrual cycle has sort of had sort of fed into misinformation. People have said while if the vaccine can affect my period than perhaps it affects my fertility. It's even linked in with this idea of quote unquote vaccine shedding Which is another sort of stranded misinformation The the covert nineteen vaccines. They don't actually include any virus. There's nothing to shed cova. Vaccines do not. Shed the only way that your vaccine can affect someone else is by making you less likely to infect them with kobe But i think the sort of meam has developed that. If you get the vaccine you can shed pieces of it to other people that could even affect their periods their menstrual cycles that could affect their fertility this has been amplified by a number of prominent people and so this is sort of how misinformation starts to spread so actually helpful and it feels like that helps to understand impart why it might be a stickier myth one that is maybe even more pervasive than say the five g. link that if people are experiencing something physiological that they might think would be related to it right then then i could see how that would feed that that misinformation absolutely. It's it's not surprising that people might have concerns. You know it can be surprising when your menstrual cycle is different. Particularly if you're trying to conceive so i really understand sort of you know some some of the worries and some of the very primal fears that this that this comes from at the same time. It's important for us to acknowledge that as you've said there's no evidence whatsoever that the vaccines impact for chilean anyway but you talked about the amplification of this myth bright so maybe it's rooted in some experiences but those experiences are actually not not necessarily people think they are right. Know having a heavier flow doesn't mean that you're infertile but who are or where are some of these high profile amplifiers yes so. Npr actually degrade investigation of this and traced some of us back to a tweet from naomi wolf in april. I'm so she someone. A writer of the prominent book the beauty myth but now someone who's known for anti vaccine sentiments She tweeted this. Lincoln april to a facebook group that had some anti vaccine activists in it and she wrote that quote hundreds of on this page. Say that they are having bleeding. Slash clotting after vaccination or they bleed oddly around vaccinated women. Then she says unconfirmed need needs more investigation but lots of reports. So you know. There's this way that she backs away from an says. Maybe this isn't true at the same time you know. Here's all this stuff going look at it. That tweet was very popular other sort of started to pick it up. And so this idea came that You know all these people are experiencing this problem. Maybe it's maybe it's a big problem. Maybe it isn't. Let's let's look at this. Let's maybe worry about it without a lot of science behind it or any kind of evidence so there's not a lot of science but it strikes me that there is a lot of history which is to say it again. When i think about myth that might stick and might stick with people who i don't typically think of as anti vaxxers or you know anti science or something thinking that there are powerful sources trying to affect fertility boy. That one has a little history here in the us right absolutely so. There's lots of reasons why this would you know unfortunately really resonate with people from four sterilization of black women to Just discrimination that women of all races defaced in healthcare settings. I thank you know. There's there's all these reasons. I think we've seen throughout this pandemic that people have to be skeptical of the medical system and unfortunately a lot of those have combined into anti vaccine sentiment recently. And you really can't understand where it comes from even if there's not actually scientific evidence tobacco and in this case yeah right. I mean if we think about the Sterilization of people with disabilities civilization of black women zero station sometimes of indigenous women. But in this case we are talking about something very different. Can you help us a little bit with the science acknowledging that that history is absolutely real and present. You understand people's fears. Why should folks trust now. That that's not what's happening.
Marsha's Plate: Black Trans Podcast
"melissa harris perry" Discussed on Marsha's Plate: Black Trans Podcast
"Transforming who was still who didn't tell the world are the dealt with man who who seen her as a woman and we all just like. There's a cognitive dissonance. I don't know if that's really appropriate to say but it bears a way that we tried to There's a book called sisters citizen by By by Melissa harris perry and in in her presentation of the book she talks about this experiment of the crooked room is called the crooked room experiment and is it. The experiment is. There's a chair that is put in the middle of this room but the ca- but the chair is to is built to be off to be crooked and how and what they learn from people when they bring them into the room and try to get them to sit in the chair their brain. They put their body in a position. Even though it's uncomfortable on the chair they try to put themselves in a position to where they are aligned with the room. Okay and so. I say that because i think that we are trying to align ourselves with what we want to be in the world olive us and so sometimes how that manifests in people strange. And we're and same strange and weird. Let's just say different. Different is going to be more extreme than yours. But but you gotta understand. That's how says people look at us to. We are literally changing our bodies changing our chemical makeup to make to to to to play you come to present ourselves to the world the way we want to see it. This person is just doing it in a way that you don't understand what i'm saying. This is it doesn't make sense to you but it's never a problem just like there's some people who never going to get that what we're doing as trans people we're saying we're buying transpeople so we you know we you know we're just trying to do how we like. You're supposed to be done but there are some people that otherwise at aloke The non binary kind of one of the most popular ones. The one does i think. Isn't they south asian. I don't know but a low carb look at low. There's certain there you know that's i'm. They are teaching me so much. I don't know sometimes. I don't know how to take some of the stuff they say. Some of the stuff is be like. Ooh that's a little. Do i wanna say to. I understand it. But i'm not there non binary. I'll get her. You know. I'm not to the point. Where i'm i'm i'm cracking. I know it's important to crack the knob. The binary open. But because i'm comfortable with my little crooked seat. Because i'm comfortable in where i have twisted myself in how i present to the world. I'm comfortable where i i literally. I don't feel any incongruency with my body. I don't feel like what. I felt in my teens. I have gotten to the point at forty years ago to where. I am very comfortable with myself. I'm in a state of gender euphoria. I don't i don't have bouts of very very. I can't even remember a time arms so have gotten to the point with all the things that i've done with my body all the mental things that i've done. We getting myself confidence together when it comes to me. I am comfortable with where i'm at. Everybody is not dare and so some of the things that if you're trying to dismantle the binary in my personal life i'm understand why it's important for you and i want you to be free that an but there's certain things i'm not going to buck up against here undestand to an extent of essays. You saying 'cause like there's some things like some things as far as sexualize a lots of this natural things in there some mental things where you resist act mentally. That all like for instance. I couldn't see myself dating a lesbian in. Also i mentioned like i prefer d. Not prefer by or straight straight Nasty presenting mendes used to deal with women in vaginas stuff like that. So i mean. I get in on people that not understand that just being bisexual general Man all.
The Takeaway
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"Welcome back to the takeaway. I'm melissa harris perry in for ten a- and today we're having a virtual field trip to the farm and because we're doing this takeaway style we want you to expand your idea of what counts as a farm. For example i live in north carolina and my backyard is something of a farm complete with five. Am chores it's actually my favorite time of day. When i get up usually check the raise beds. I got touted tomatoes on the vine. But they're all green need a little more sun to get get them read that some flowers back here. Eggplant medo plants back here. Lavender got some cucumber right. So that's me getting out. The chick feed we got babies and they need a slightly different kind of him out here. We'll cut some lettuce or work morning like this. That might be about it and the best part of my backyard. Farm are my girls few leases kale here to take all of that over for the chickens. Almost time girls up. oh yes. I adore these chickens. And if you've never heard of chicken math well let me tell you it's real. I fell under the spell and in just a few short years. My backyard flock has grown from just three hens to twenty four ladies and one feisty rooster name rock. Kim let up cameras girls. Dorothy more ladies. Nobody's up to dark. Okay here we go and it turns out..
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"I'm disappointed in the people who brought this misguided lawsuit as well These borrowers were scheduled to receive the assistance. So decision's gonna delay the recovery what these farmers than and they suffered and they continue to suffer and We you know we just need to stay on top of this so if you had opportunity to talk with with these places with these white farmers with the conservative groups who are defending the court. What might you say to them about. This set aside relief formers of color. Well first of all we. I i would talk to them about all of the past discrimination the fact that You know these are farmers who are who are working to make sure that they provide for their families to make sure that they're able to To to stay in business. And you know i think i will try to appeal to sensitivity. They have but. I think it's important that we recap the history For people who don't seem to want to recognize it and just kind of put it up in their faces it. The discrimination is something that i think We try to ignore. I and we've seen it Not just with the situation but with the distribution of funds for historically black colleges and so forth. And you know we've got we've got what nineteen eighteen nineties that that actually deal with with agriculture in terms of the program. So yeah i think we we have to make make it very clear that we have not gotten not even our fair share. We just had not been These farmers of having treated fairly and that they should we should be able to appeal to some sensitivity of these white farmers so representative adams. I wanna go back for just one moment to a point that you made and you talked about the eighteen nineties institutions those historically black land grant colleges and north carolina a and t is among them. That's in your district talk about the history of agriculture associated also with black education. Well thank you melissa. You know An enemy just say north carolina. Ent is is my alma mater twice I have been very involved with Doing work For shortly black colleges and universities we have nineteen eighteen nineties and just as We started Us many years ago because as students look like made you good. Goodnight attend the major majority culture. Schools so in in north carolina We have a north carolina which is an eighteen ninety land grant as an eighteen sixty two north carolina state in the. We've seen discrimination throughout this process of of funding for the schools They are very much involved with not only doing research But we have worked through the to the egg t to the agriculture committee To try to Get Increased support as a matter of fact just recently we did have a hearing on eighteen nine black farmers and they talked a lot about not only the schools and so forth. But i think that We're going to have to continue right now. What we see. Is that the state. is required to match the funding from the federal government to our schools. And that has not been done. Historically that has not been done. I served twenty years in the north carolina. House seems that we just couldn't find the funding for our for north carolina. A and t that was a one match but yet we're able to match money to not plan state five and six times so that means to me. It's not a lack of funding lack of where we put our priorities. And so we've not put the priorities times of state government into Supporting our eighteen ninety s but these schools are valuable. They were important. We are losing our black farmers day by day. The the number is diminishing. And so we want to keep a young people interested in in agribusiness and agriculture overall and that that one of the ways to do it is to make sure that we have the funding there to provide scholarships. You can't just give them money today and say let's produce tomorrow. We've got to be realistic about it and make sure that the the ample time provided to do all those things that they need to do. I so appreciate you making that connection and also that Those inequities not only what we think of as payments directly to farmers but to that whole system of a college education also associated with those land grants how many years of in inequalities there are. I'm wondering we also heard from mr right talking about them. The possibility of restructuring aspects of of the usda given that you are sitting there in a leadership role on the ag committee within congress. Is that something that you all any capacity or power to do. Oh yes we do We provide oversight to a usda. I've always believed in in making sure that we bring stakeholders the table because Folks like mr right there out here Where the rubber meets the road there working day by day. And they're the ones who i think realistically can provide information to us. That's helpful So you know we. it is clear. that We do handle the oversight And including north carolina anti and we've got to make sure that We take the advice of people who actually know this business and yes. Restructuring can't keep things as they are just because they've been it's been these particular things have been in existence for for many many years and just because you know you always have to go back and revisit revise and especially if things aren't working and certainly they've not been working for our black farmers. So yeah i would support that. We did the many things. I think that we can do. In terms of holding folks accountable putting pressure with pressure needs to be good congressman alma. Atoms were presents north carolina's twelfth congressional district. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you melissa. You keep up the good work. I'm melissa harris perry and this is the takeaway all this hour. We're talking about farming agriculture sustainability and climate change and. This is particularly important to me. Because i am talking to you from my home in north carolina complete with my backyard. Barnyard turns out not only do. I have hens. The other day. I came out to the coup and low and behold i found babies now during the pandemic many of us looked for home improvement or life improvement projects to pass the time to give our minds and our handsome meaning and we spent that time waiting for the pandemic to end sometimes isolated from friends and family. So we turn to nature gardening and even raising livestock for some. This was a way to keep our hands and minds. Busy amid so much uncertainty and for others adventures in agriculture were inspired by the holes in our supply chains and exacerbated by the pandemic itself. Here's what you told us about. How the pandemic led you to experiment with backyard. Farming and gardening. Hi this is corrine from coatesville. My daughter and i started a garden last year and it was such a success that we're doing our second one this year and we've doubled the amount of space and we're also going to be. Canning are tomatoes this year. Hi this is elizabeth from oakland last year our planet to of pepper seven kinds of nato to claim to squash green beans strawberries cucumbers and a regular. I have pomegranate lemon figs asian pear apple but my fence flew down in people. Raise my garden so it was big loss. Well i will things. Roy my name is jane and i am calling from port townsend and during the pandemic we got really involved in the garden and even expanded it to include three families so we have a little community garden and my chickens are happy. Because i'm paying much more attention to them right. This is neil. Thanks balmy washington. We started growing all sorts of fresh vegetables and fruits right before the pandemic and ended up learning about all the wonderful fauna. That would come into our favorite for the bees. Hi this is pat from the boston area. And at the start of covid we did get a little nervous that there could be some food shortages. We planted nine fruit trees and expanded our vegetable garden. We got two full-size goat could eventually be milked on. We already had twelve chickens in our neighbors. Concern actually need daas for eggs during some of the egg shortages. Hi my name is william from scottsdale and during pandemic actually was living in la. I lost a treat to drought seven death and had my tree cut down into log small enough for me to move around and created ten. Who will culture beds which is a method of creating layered garden bed. Swiss logs and tree limbs and tree wastes layered in with things. Like rotted stran- rotted. Hey organics german. You're on chicken manure covered over with topsoil and mulch and the result is a low water demand garden bed the highly productive and over time will break down and continue to provide nutrient and moisture very happy with the results of those garden and look forward to repeating and adding layers each. We always want to hear from you. Leave us a message and tell us how the pandemic led you to experiment with backyard farming or gardening. The number is eight. Seven seven six eight nine eight two five three again. That's eight seven seven eight six nine eight to five three stick with us. We'll be right back with more. The takeaway supported by progressive insurance offering snapshot a program that adjusts assurance rates based on safe driving habits. Now that's progressive learn more at progresive dot com or wanting hundred progressive. Wnyc studios is supported by car. Care to go. 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Their doctors create highly personalized easy to understand. Plans aimed at improving your long term health. Move your health forward today at go. Forward dot com. That's go forward dot com. I'm abor mix candy the host of be anti-racist. A new action podcast. I'm launching on june ninth from iheartmedia and pushkin industries. Each week. i'll be joined by special guests to discuss how different policies and platforms can dismantle racism to build a just equitable world. Listen to be antiracist on iheartradio app apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the takeaway. I'm melissa harris perry in for ten a- and today we're having a virtual field trip to the farm and because we're doing this takeaway style we want you to expand your idea of what counts as a farm. For example i live in north carolina and my backyard is something of a farm complete with five. Am chores. it's actually my favorite time of day. When i get up usually check. 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"This is the takeaway. I'm Melissa Harris Perry in for Tanzania, Vega Now, what does the social scene that you are most missing over the past year. For me? It is house parties, kickback and familiar spaces with familiar faces, music, laughter and very loud. We'll call him discussions. I can't wait for it to be safe for us to all gather again like that. But while we're waiting, we can engage the intimacy, hilarity and spirit of the House Party and a brand new late night show hosted by comedian Sam J. Show that doesn't really look or sound like anything else on television right now. I thought Uncle Ben was a rice tycoon. I didn't think that was a butler. I was like this in a suit just runs rice. I was probably by that race. I didn't. No, no, I didn't even know the narrative. Y'all just do it. Oh, this was a butler slate. This was a rice god to me. That's what I thought. Okay. So pause with Sam J had its premiere last Friday on HBO, and J told me she isn't trying to reach an advertiser friendly demographic through her show. Just trying to talk to people that I guess I can feel what I'm talking about. I don't know if it's like, you know, ages 35. I don't think that's specific for me. You know what I mean? I just felt like these are things that me and my friends talk about. This is stuff. These are conversations that around a lot and are being had and I wanted to bring some like rawness and honesty to the screen. And it is raw Look in her stand up. J makes bold jokes that often touch on big ideas. Go to the British Museum is huge. I was overwhelmed. I walked in. I was a holy because it was wing after wing after wing of stuff and it blew my mind. I was like, Well, white people stole all this. Stole.
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"Read being said eight is basically eilon myself straight. People hang out with a lot of gay people. I can't ask for honesty from others and honesty from the guest and the people in the room. If i'm not giving that. And so i mean really. That's what it stems from for me is just being true to myself and true two things that i want to discuss it. I think are important in many ways. These conversations j. Having on her late night show are an extension of her stand up but her comedic voice has also been sharpened by years as a writer for. Snl we writing for like a show like you're right infested now. You're writing for the people to you know. Try to get your voice into kate. Mckinnon mouth embody in some ways. And so in that regard you you have to think more about the whole where and stand up you just got to think about yourself but when you're writing and casting yet thing what is good at what his eighty good at. What was a good wolf for keenan. What does keenan do. Well how how are they gonna score in this. And how are they going to be successful in this as much as how to get the jokes. I wanna get out and across. I have no doubt that in the coming years you're going to hear and see a lot more of sanjay as she continues to rise in the comedy world but for now she's feeling good about what she was able to achieve through her late night show. I already feel like it's a success. Because ton and i like made it did it. And i'm like why that's do something that was uniquely me authentically me and i got to share it with the world really so i it's happened already. I think anything else that comes of it is like a bonus one place. You won't be seeing her anytime soon. Isn't a comedy version of versus something. Jay says she just cannot wrap her head around. No no i. Can't the people wanna see something like that. I've noticed people wanna see comics battle. But i don't really know what like comedy is so like individual. And like hyper nuanced. You know what i mean. So it's like what is a comedy battle. How do you judge that. And i'm not sure how you judge it but i still got to say i wanna see it pause with sam. J airs fridays at nine pm on. Hbo you can also watch it on hbo. Max okay folks. that's all we have for you today. Really appreciate you being here with us. Remember if you have any suggestions or ideas call us at eight. Seven seven eight might take. That's eight seven. Seven eight six nine eight two five three or four send us a tweet at takeaway you can also record a voice memo on your phone and email it to the takeaway callers g. Thanks so much for listening. Melissa harris perry in pretend vega and this is the.
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"I'm Melissa Harris Perry and we've been talking with Dorian Warren, Co president of Community Change about the childcare tax credit. Okay, So you articulated why it matters to families with Children. Why should I care about this? If I don't have kids? Yes, but let me just say its 39 million households. Melissa, covering 88% of Children who benefit Well, we do know is that half of people surveyed don't even know about this. So, But your question is, why should you care that That is the question because it's really you have to move toe. Why is this a public good that benefits me even if I don't have kids, and here's what we know from research. Investing an ending child poverty means everybody benefits and in this way it improves maternal health. It is. We have some evidence of this from Canada's Chad allowance for they've been studying the effects of this for years when they did something similar because you know they're a little ahead of us on this, But it also means like, Think of it this way. Melissa Child Poverty in America costs US somewhere between $800 billion.2 trillion dollars a year and lost economic output. So we are actually not. We're making the wrong kinds of investments by investing in child poverty. We're making that choice to say we're cool with child poverty in the richest country in the history of the world. But when you say I'm gonna invest to make sure there is an income floor for Children, no matter their race, no matter income that actually benefits us in the long term, because there's something like an 8 to 1 return on societal benefits, so $100 million investment Produces $800 billion for the country further down the road, whether it's frankly like better employment outcomes or better mental health or better physical health, this is all we have the social science of mess and those There's no reason why we can't garner the political will to say this should be the new social contract in this country. So as you're talking about, sort of these big issues of how it improves the economy. Overall, there's one specific sector, right connected that, and that is child care workers themselves. Who are often folks who are working full time but still living below or very close to the poverty line while trying to provide this profoundly necessary care. Is there anything in the pipeline or in this current legislation that assists on that side of the childcare question? We have relegated child care to an individualized issue for most Americans for too long. It is a public good, and so there was a little bit of a down payment. Melissa on providing high quality access to child care for everybody in the American rescue plan is about $40 billion, but but but but There is $700 billion on the table in pending legislation that would actually reconstitute so to speak, reconstruct our entire child care system in America, so that particularly low income parents, black and brown parents have access to child care. And as you pointed out childcare providers and especially the teachers Can get a living wage. It makes no sense. It just makes no sense. If you work full time caring for other people's Children so that they could go toe work or they could live their lives. Why should you have to live in poverty? This is The most important work we can do as a country is investing in the care of our Children and our families. And so there this is exciting that there is potentially almost a trillion dollars on the table that would invest in child care for the first time in this country. We almost did it in the early seventies under Nixon. He killed it. This is our next opportunity to do it. You have actually made me feel excited about public policy this morning like something could actually happen. That would make a big difference as always a pleasure to talk with Dorian Warren, Co president of Community Change and co founder of the Economic Security Project, and again, just to be completely honest, Dorian and I also co creator and co host. The system. Check podcast. Dr Jenn Gunter's mission is to help people feel less shame about their basic bodily functions. Everybody poops. This is one of those things people never talk about. Like, why is your poop? Any more shameful than your runny nose. That's what I want to know the truth about how our bodies work and what's best for our health. That's next time on the TED Radio Hour from NPR today, it two on 93.9 FM W N. Y C Mm hmm. This is the takeaway with tansy. No Vega from W. N. Y C. NPR Rex in collaboration with WGBH Radio in Boston. Melissa Harris Perry in for Tensing a Vega On May 31st 1921 of violent white mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, enacted a deadly and destructive massacre that nearly destroyed the thriving black community of green wood. On May 31st in 21. I went to bed in my family's home, and Greenwood, neighbors of Kelso, the neighborhood. I felt the sleeping that night. With rich. Not just in terms of will, but in culture, humanity heritage in my family had a beautiful home. We had great neighbors and I had friends to play with felt safe. Had everything a child could need. I had a bright future ahead of me. That's 107 year old Violet Fletcher, one of the few living survivors of the Tulsa Race massacre, testifying before Congress on May 19th in an effort to secure reparations for survivors and descendants of the massacre. According to the 2001 race. Riot commission report. White mobs killed as many as 300 people and destroyed more than 1200 homes and businesses. The night of the massacre. I was awakened by my family. My parents and five civil. It's were there I was sold. We had to leave, and that was it. I will never forget the violence of little white Mom. When we left for her home. I still see black men sin being shocked black bodies line in the street. Steals will smoke and see Farmer I still see black businesses being burned. I still hear her planes flying overhead. I hear the screams have lived through the massacre every day, Mrs Thought you testified alongside.
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"I sit down at the piano with jazz composer James Moran to reflect on the remarkable story of the Harlem Hell fighters in World War one and their world changing family. I like him as the Big Bang of jazz because there's so much that he outputs in his short lifetime that then become the strands that everybody can pick up. Join me for a special Memorial Day weekend edition of United States of Anxiety Tonight at six or 93.9 FM AM a 20 W N. Y. C. Mm hmm. This'll take away. I'm Melissa Harris Perry in pretending to Vega $6 Trillion. That's the bottom line of the 2022 federal budget that the Biden administration proposed on Friday. Included in it are the two infrastructure proposals. The president Biden has already begun to outline for the public and his American jobs planned and American families plan. Speaking in Cleveland on Thursday, the president once again detailed what he's hoping to accomplish through these spending measures. This is already clear. Have the right track. American rescue plan laid a strong foundation for a new economy that brings everybody along. It is just the first step. We're gonna build on the incentive and incredible progress that we've made. He said America on a sustainable path to faster, more inclusive economic growth. We have to start investing in ourselves again and the American people again. But for Republican lawmakers, there's another number included in this budget proposal that is likely to draw widespread condemnation. $1.8 trillion. That's the projected size of the federal deficit in 2022 under this plan, and according to The New York Times debt as.
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"I'm Melissa Harris Perry in for 10, Xena Vega and this is the takeaway. Last week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas SB eight into law. The law prohibits abortion says earliest six weeks into pregnancy if a fetal heartbeat is detected a stage when many people are unaware they're pregnant and are therefore unable to make a choice. Law also institute and innovated new enforcement strategy. Ah, LA telling anyone to sue abortion providers and to recover up to $10,000. Republican state lawmakers in Texas made abortion restrictions a top priority item for their legislative session. And governor, Abbott framed his support for these actions as rooted in a fundamental concern about protecting life. Last week, Governor Abbott also issued an executive order. Prohibiting all government entities in the state from mandating masks with me Now to discuss this law is Dr Godzilla, Mulyadi and obeyed. You buy an abortion provider in Texas and a board member with Physicians for Reproductive Health. Dr Moretti. Welcome back to the takeaway. Thank you so much for having me Melissa. It's an honor. Oh, I feel very much the same way honored to have you particularly given this new context in which you're attempting to do your work. So before we get into the details, can you just describe for us a bit? What you've seen happen over time over the past few years, maybe the past 10 as a doctor and an abortion provider in Texas. Yes. So I have been providing abortion care whether it's as a physician or as a clinic worker since 2004 here in Texas, and I've seen AH lot of changes over the past decade, and the trend has been every legislative session to introduce new extreme laws that attempt to chip away at the right to access a portion. And this has been the strategy for over a decade. Each session to introduce some new way of putting a barrier up, making the time take longer, making it be a certain type of physician certain type of procedure, so really nit picking at each detail. Oven abortion visit to try and block every step and is that kind of legislative action about each aspect of a medical procedure common in other medical procedures, for example, saying kidney dialysis Of course not. And I, as an O B g Y N couldn't speak to the regulations around kidney dialysis. But I can tell you the regulations of ground all other aspects of gynecology and obstetrics, and I don't see this anywhere else. We don't see this kind of attention paid to the health and wellness and outcomes of Urging people in our state for sure. We don't see this kind of attention to health and outcomes for people diagnosed with gynecologic cancers in this state, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, So the legislator does not spend each session worrying about the health of reproductive Lee capable people of other stages in life. Certainly So as an O b g Y N. Can you talk to me a little bit about what the dangers of pregnancy are, especially for some particular populations of people. We know that, of course, Pregnancy is a normal process. I don't I don't wanna focus so much on pathologize ng it. People have normal, healthy pregnancies all the time. But as an OBE Joanne I'm also there with folks when things go terribly wrong, and we can see death and harm from pregnancy happening at all stages of pregnancy, First trimester, second trimester, third trimester. And certainly we see many the majority of deaths happening after birth in Texas specifically, but around the country. This disproportionately impacts black communities, brown communities, other people of color queer communities and so people that are disproportionately already marginalized in our state. Disenfranchised from so many other aspects of our government and our electoral process are also being impacted by health outcomes throughout pregnancy. Dr Maya, do we have to take a quick break? Stay with us. Takeaway, supported by indeed with tools like Skills test designed to help quality candidates show hiring managers what they can do learn more and indeed dot com slash credit. And we're back with more of my conversation with Texas based O. B. G. Y N abortion provider and board member with Physicians for Reproductive Health Doctor Mulyadi. So let's talk a little bit more about the bill itself. It has been described as the heart beat Bill. What do you think about? Why are what is the purpose And is it an accurate description? Thank you so much for asking that question the purpose of naming it. The heartbeat bill is to really sensationalize what's happening to evoke an emotion and people. But you're exactly right. It is not a medically accurate term. What we're talking about is very clearly a complete ban on abortion. That is what this bill is. And it is being called a heartbeat Bill so that legislatures the governor can correlate it with saving life, However, this stage of pregnancy that we're talking about if we really want to get into the weeds of it. We're not talking about when the heart has been developed. We're talking about very early embryonic human development when the cardiac cells are there, and they're beating and they're forming a heart. They're starting to form a tube and two fold and to make chambers But that hasn't happened yet. We're talking about before. Even a heart has formed and I really want to name something very real. As I get into those weeds of what Heartbeat even means it doesn't matter when the heart beats starts, it doesn't matter when the organs develop. It doesn't matter what the overwhelming scientific evidence proves, as far as abortion care, being exceedingly safe or around abortion restrictions actually causing harm to public health. We know that this isn't about human development. It's not about Safety. It's not about efficacy. It's not about health care, and it's certainly not about saving the lives of babies in Texas. I'll say that we recently have a study published out of University of California showing that exposure to fatal police violence during pregnancy increases the likelihood of preterm birth and that's real fax. So if Texas lawmakers actually cared about the health and wellness of embryos in Texas, they should have spent this session preventing those murders preventing murders like bottom, John Tatyana Jefferson and Sandra Bland here in our state from happening. That's how they really could have used science to help our communities. But instead they're wasting our time talking about heartbeats. State violence is a reproductive justice issue. I so appreciate the way that you connected that for us when you are talking to your patients as a provider at this point How are you going to be talking to them about what their options are? You know it's gonna be hard and unfortunately, it's not something we're new to here in Texas. About a year ago. Now the governor shut down abortion Karen, our state under the guise of a public health emergency. That day. When are our services were shut down was at that point the worst day of my career. He spent time every night calling patients telling them we weren't open yet trying to connect them with services across the country. Have colleagues in Alabama in Chicago in D. C that we're seeing patients that I had cared for, but I couldn't complete their procedures because of the law. And so that's really what I fear is going to be happening, but People show up and I'll tell you a story. Last session, A bill was introduced here that really we thought was the most extreme. But as I said, every session, they surprise us. That Bill called for essentially the death penalty for people seeking abortion and for physicians providing that care. Now that Bill didn't make it very far. Some Republicans said it was just way too extreme. They didn't want to punish pregnant people. That week. They were discussing the bill. I still had patients show up. And I remember a patient with me, Doc. They're going to give me the death penalty for this And I don't care. I have to have to get this abortion that really hooked me in the gut. Yeah, absolutely Thank you for that story, and for the ways that it clarifies just how urgent this question is. Dr Ghazala More Yeti is an OBE you an abortion provider in Texas and a board member with physicians for Reproductive Health..
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"Radio in Boston on We're back. I'm Melissa Harris Perry in for 10, Xena Vega. We continue our conversation on the one year anniversary of George Floyd's murder by White police officer Derrick Show, Vin. I'm back with Andrea Jenkins, vice president of the Minneapolis City Council, and Aaron Morrison from The Associated Press. So Aaron. Let's talk about how this wave of movement for black lives really pushed out new ideas around how we can address policing and racial justice. Instead of hearing about body cams or implicit bias training, the language was defund and abolish. And you talk about what defund means. And what abolish might look like Well, I think pretty early on as as that language emerged in the protest last year. It. You know it was seized upon Is this very scary notion of when you defund the police that somehow that means, um you're saying absolutely no police whatsoever? Absolutely no public safety And that is actually far from what Activists were calling for last year and what they continue to call for today what they're asking for us to take some of the money some of the massive, really massive amounts of money that is that it goes to police budgets and put some of that towards Services that provide care to people so that they don't end up in these interactions with police officers that are often just, you know the consequences of poverty. The consequences of homelessness. The consequences of, you know, not having enough income not being employed. So Andrea as a elected member of a City council. That's exactly the kind of work that you all might have to do. Right. Take that city budget. Look at it and move resource is from the police pot to to another bucket. What does that look like for you in practice? What would that mean on Mm hmm. So we have, um, absolutely done that. And to be real clear. Melissa, we started sort of reallocating funds. Before the death of George Floyd. We have Ah, very Engaged and activist community on DSA. So my first year in office, we shipped it a million dollars from the police department. To create, um, the Office of Violence Prevention and then subsequently injustice passed budget cycle. We shipped it over $8 million to, um Who's up that office of violence? Prevention? Um To work with community face groups toe To do what we call, interrupt certain and interrupt doors, toe really engage with young people to prevent crime before it happens. Particularly violent crime. And so we started that process. I have to admit it is a very challenging place to be as a Azzan elected of issue because you know a big part of our responsibility is public safety, however, that public safety cannot be at the expense of Black lives that seemingly are Expendable. Too many police departments all around the country, you know, And I think that reallocation of funding is going to continue. We have Ah. Our police budget last year was about $187 million. And that's a significant Chunk to change and in our overall budget, and we have to really Um, As as Aaron noted, Look at affordable housing. Look at job training opportunities. Look at universal basic income as ways to help families overcome some of these Systemic and historic challenges that have been a part of black life in America. So Aaron, both you and Andrea have pointed to some critical issues around economics, poverty, income inequality. But also to this kind of core question about the valuing of black life. The idea that when we say public safety, black folk ought to be not only part of that public, but maybe even central to it. Have. We made progress on that part? You know, it's hard to say to be quite honest with you because, um, it's e think a lot of times and we when we've gone through these inflection, you know, period or did the moment's flash points. Andare history in the history of racial justice in America. There's often this push for fast solutions and fast results. So sometimes people are like, OK, so it's a year later. What has happened? Um, do have we solved it yet, and quite honestly, this type of change, sister ending systemic racism. Addressing systemic racism is not something that you're going to solve overnight is that obviously it's not something that you're going to solve, even in a year, so you can barely even begin to measure whether or not some of these changes are actually having the impact the intended impact s. So I think it's still to be seen if we're going to get to a place where these programs that shift in funding is actually making a difference. And I so appreciate that point. I I often remind young activists who I meet with or or teaching my class is that you know, we're probably not smarter, better, you know, cooler, more strategic than Ida Wells or Frederick Douglass or energy, Luke Cooper. And if it was easily solved, they would have already solved it right. We are in a long set of struggles here. I love the one thing in particular one of zoom in on and that is the question of measuring it. Where we on data collection around these questions. So the George boy, justice and policing It also calls for the creation of not only better measures for tracking discriminate, discriminatory policing. Um it's also calling for a database of misconduct of officers s so that we can actually measure how, um how often officers are being brought up on these types of investigations on Dwight happens to them. Do they get to just jump around to different police depart? Is when you get fired from one of those air. Those are things that need to happen in order for us to really understand and measure the problem. Aaron Morrison is a national race and ethnicity writer for The Associated Press, and Andrew Jenkins is the vice president of the Minneapolis City Council. Andrea.