Earn Your Leisure

EP 302 🏁🔂

I was aghast to see they gave Senator Tim Scott, who basically legislated the murder of Breonna Taylor, a multi-episodic opportunity to talk about economics. Seriously, out of all of the black experts out there who know this topic well, you chose him and brought him on for 3 part discussion? The podcast seems to have strayed from its original intention (creators have the right to evolve) but they seem to forgo recognition of people and factors that harm black people’s safety and economic access in exchange for clout, and mainstream acceptance.

I wanna get into this podcast but where should i start

I agree that they are politically biased and unable to see past the tips of their noses and back of their heels. They’ve bought into capitalistic white supremacy suggesting that if Black people as a community just played the game (that is not broken but designed with anti-Blackness through every law, policy and procedure) we will all simply achieve and gain access. They’re two brothas whose commentary is very surface level, doesn’t account for historical actions to destroy Black-held wealth, or deeply ingrained belief systems that continue to sustain white supremacy. Inviting that coon Don Peebles onto valorize Trump is an effort to gaslight their audience about their own love for 45. Peebles is the prototypical “if I marry a white woman, live next door to a white man and take on the white man’s mannerisms then I am powerful because I’ve achieved adjacency to whiteness!”