#578 Sweater Vest Man Rises (Elections)
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Edition #578
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Act 1: Sweater Vest Man song – Frank Chow
Act 2: Gays Vilify Rick Santorum, Wife Karen Dated Abortion Doctor – The Young Turks Air Date: 01-17-12
Song 2: Honey – Play & Play: B Sides
Act 3: Santorum’s Hypocrisy on Prenatal Testing – The Progressive Air Date: 2-20-12
Song 3: Moment of Tranquility – Welcome to Earth
Act 4: Tim Wise Interview – How Race Factors into Electoral Politics – Majority Report – Air Date: 1-30-12
Song 4: Sydney (I’ll Come Running) – Sydney (I’ll Come Running) – Single
Act 5: Rick Santorum Don’t Worry About Cost of Medications You Need – David Pakman -Air Date: 02-06-12
Song 5: Twisted Logic – X & Y
Act 6: Megadeath singer sort-of endorses Rick Santorum – Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me Air Date: 2-18-12
Song 6: Peace of Mind – Popular Music That Will Live Forever – EP
Act 7: Obama disrupts the concept of citizenship in the white supremacist mind – Blacking it up Air Date: 2-7-12
Song 7: Back In Time – Huey Lewis & The News: Greatest Hits
Act 8: Take a ride in Rick’s head – Jim Hightower Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 8: Every Sperm Is Sacred – Monty Python Sings
Act 9: Santorum Scandal Cover For John Ensign – Young Turks
Song 9: It Goes On and On – I and Love and You
Act 10: Romney’s non concern for the poor – Jimmy Dore – Air Date 2-3-12
Song 10: Always Mean It – Emilyn Brodsky’s Greatest T**s
Act 11: Looking Good for Obama – The Progressive Air Date: 2-13-12
Song 11: If You Wanna – What Did You Expect from The Vaccines?
Act 12: Rick Santorum Wins THREE Primaries in 1 Day – David Pakman -Air Date: 02-09-12
Voicemails:
Running with righteous indignation – Patrick from Dallas
When can the US government be considered illegitimate? Vote Green – Chris from Middletown, NY
Police accountability activists win a campaign against violent cop – Col. Moses from Portland, OR
Praise for Blacking It Up talking about revisionist history – Colin from Cleveland, OH
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Final comments on training for my Climate Ride
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GOP Introduces New “Mystery Candidate” With Paper Bag Over Head – The Onion
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I don’t know if this comment will be read by many people, but I heard it first on Best of the Left, and I love that podcast, but this segment and commentary really struck me. I am a teacher, I am allowed, by the choice of my profession, to deal with and instruct and mentor young people on various aspects of their lives. I am a social studies teacher, which also allows me the opportunity to learn from and instruct my students on current events related to past events and facts. I understand, as a white man, that I am a part of one side of the race issue by some people’s assumptions and generalizations, and I understand that a person who is subject to generalizations and historical prejudice has a right to be angry and upset. However, as I was listening to this clip, and agreed completely with the premise that Obama as president upsets white racists, and that attacks on him are racist, and that there are evident undertones of racist exemptions to the constitution, amendments, etc. However, what upset me, is that despite the very intelligent points and examples of white racism given in the discussion, the commentators/experts/people speaking consistently used the words “they” and “them.” These terms are not used in this discussion “off-handedly” or absentmindedly, but intentionally and with purpose. The purpose was to present a obvious “us” versus “them” mentality based on race. While discussing the terrible consequences of racial thinking and intent in our past as a country, the people in this clip committed, in my opinion, the exact same sin of creating an “us” and “them” situation. I had a difficult time dealing with the feeling that I was being convicted, despite my own feelings regarding race and disgust with racism and ignorance, of being part of the “them.” I do my best in class and in my own personal life of never giving a person the idea of a “us” and “them” when it comes to race. My students are people. I know intelligent people, not black or white. I love and have as part of my family many beautiful people, not one that is black or white. If we really want to get through this idea of Black, White, Hispanic, Brown, Yellow, etc. then the people who are intelligently speaking about the past “us” and “them” should make sure they are not creating a present “us” and “them” in the dialogue about the issue.