Friday, May 8, 2020

This guy. The Funky Academic speaks!


He takes awhile to get to the point, but man, the points he makes along the way, and his quick recall of deep American history, is off the charts (Though The Wife said, Oh my, he sounds like you, Mitchell!). Yeah, he does, but I love his phrasing about what rights really mean, which is securing the social conditions to truly be free. And his inside information about what the Biden camp said to the Congressional Black Caucus is classic neo-liberal virtue signaling over real reform.  He makes one or two errors in his fast speaking, calling Trump Obama's predecessor, and says blacks have "superior" savings to whites, when he goes on in detail to show he meant "inferior."  He is asked at one point what he wants, and he gets it, federal jobs guarantee, as he knows how private sector employers don't often hire African-Americans, and the federal government is the employer of last resort, and often first resort for African-Americans, just as it was for Irish immigrants in northeast America in the late 19th Century.