Earn Your Leisure

EP 302 🏁🔂

Some platforms or movements that start with meaningful intentions often lose their original focus and turn into profit-driven entities. It’s frustrating when a space that was once focused on empowerment and growth shifts into superficiality or even harmful ideologies, especially when the complexities of race, history, and systemic injustice are reduced to oversimplified narratives like “it’s all about money.” The historical reality is that marginalized communities have often been systematically oppressed, even when they successfully integrated into society. The argument that it’s “not about race” is a deliberate erasure of the socio-economic and racial context that underpins many of these issues. It’s a stark reminder that ignoring or minimizing the intersections of race, class, and power doesn’t just erase history—it perpetuates ongoing harm. EYL is doing the community a grave disservice by idolizing a misogynist, racist, felon. I hope it’s worth it.

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