Alice Hamilton and I sat down to discuss the attempted takeover of the Capitol in DC.

A note of caution: language is terribly important. Alice and I use the term "coup" as a catchall throughout this episode to refer to the events that occurred in Washington DC on January 6th, 2021. With that said, I don't know how precise it is to refer to this event as a coup. For starters most (operative word!!) of the duck dynasty delegation had absolutely no plan other than to get inside the building. They didn't have a list of demands. They just wanted to break stuff and take selfies. Crimes for sure but that hardly qualifies as an attempted coup.

Obviously there were plenty of malicious actors with boatloads of ammunition, and about a dozen bombs (though only two were placed).

All this to say I have no idea what to call what transpired. I have taken to calling it the Saltine Siege because I saw that somewhere, it's funny, and it kinda fits. On a more serious note, I'm still reading, listening, researching and I'm sure our language will evolve as more of the pieces fall into place.

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Alice Hamilton is back to help Tori break down the mystery of Black conservatives, from the 1800s til today. We tackle all kinds of motivation for Black folks aligning with the right, from the true believers to major grifters, and talk about how white progressives do more harm than good when they try to "collect"  Black folks for having different politics. We wade into the messy politics of surviving white supremacy in America and discuss our childhood experiences growing up as Black kids in white evangelicalism.

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Alice and I decided to tackle something that's become a huge part of the national narrative: why have cops at all? We have pretty clear data that policing does not work. Policing is a net negative for communities, but it's also bad for the officers themselves. 

"Slavery didn't work either. It costs money. It costs lives. We have all this information and all this data, and we don't use it."

"Warrior Mindset" police training.

Police unions in the US.

Police Clearance Rates.

SCOTUS ruling that cops have no obligation to protect or serve.

Prisons syphon blue voters into red counties

Policing isn't the most dangerous job

Police mistreatment of assault victims

Sexual assault complaints again police officers

Police officers are rarely charge with murder.

For context: healthcare workers get assaulted A LOT. They manage to not shoot anyone though.

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton to discuss the reclamation of Black humanity in a country founded on white supremacist values. They discuss the ways that whiteness collides with Black bodies through assumptions, dehumanization, infantilization, lionizing, othering, and more. 

Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton and Hailee Evelyn Greene to discuss the ways that purity culture plays out for Black girls in predominantly white spaces.

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Tori and Alice discuss Trump's executive orders targeting Black women's work.

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Tori and Alice dig into American history and the fact that the United States was never intended to be a democracy and can't operate as a functional democracy because of that. 

The article discussed in the episode

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On this episode, Tori is joined by Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments. Dan Price took a million dollar pay cut in order to pay all of his employees $70,000. His attempt at creative imagination paid off.

Antiracism requires new ways of imagining success in every aspect of life.

You can find Dan's new book, Worth It: How a Million-Dollar Pay Cut and a $70,000 Minimum Wage Revealed a Better Way of Doing Business here.

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Alice joins Tori to talk about the ways the pro-life movement has been fueled by racism. Last week at the RNC, Abby Johnson spoke. She released a video a few months ago where she claimed that police would justified racially profiling her son because, she claimed, Black people commit more violent crimes. This made me realize all the ways in which the pro-life movement have used their single issue as cover for their racism. Content warnings apply.

Abby Johnson's comments on her son

Racist anti-choice ad

Most effective ways to reduce abortion rates 

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Tori is joined by Alice Hamilton to talk about what the heck white privilege really means and how privilege interacts with cancel culture.

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