the consolidation of dictatorship we're seeing the last vestiges of political opposition swept away that means local and provincial councillors of the sea and r.p. . various political activists civil society people are all being swept up in these mass trials the government says the charges on the judgment and that the trial will proceed like any other florence al-jazeera. again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump has become the 1st us president to be twice the house of representatives that charge him with inciting and needs to rexton over his repeated questioning of election results which included a speech she gave to supporters before they overran the capitol building trump call for unity in a video message but made no mention of his impeachment meanwhile washington d.c. has been heavily fortified over

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people certainly were upset about it but also i think a lot of what i thought of the book those were people were that were in the peak about you know i definitely you know if something is not and there are a lot of people who recognize this phenomenon and want to know more about it and how it works and what we can do. you took a moment for you which was quite a custom moment which is the start of you deciding that you wanted to write the book and in what you write each very universal can you take us back to that moment when you thought i need to put this down in a book. so. that talk about this in the beginning of the book you know the inspiration for this. modern. life and the frustration but a killer moment in the moment was trying to be in the rose retreat with other women and this was a concert a lot of focus on that. you know what that was we developed because women so rarely get a chance to focus on their work and all we could really talk about what was the talk

about these men these white man that were impacting our volatile. so heavily and. i think that's. what is behind this you know i kept seeing the story unfold in front of the path that led to where we were and where we are today and i wanted others. so we could start looking at the power it's a look at society as a whole set of treating each individual bad actor. and part of the systemic and so i wanted to really show that story that. we are right now if you'd like to do you absolutely can't jump into the comments section be part of today's discussion question start with edward mckinley who is a b. and of your. inner vs the author wrote that if you are waging war and raised and living in america you are

a racist and we will not be able to reckon with our history of white supremacy our history of racial violence until white people like me are ready to lean into that constructor is a very strong and powerful in our work as far as questions for the author i have a 1000000 but i also think it's important that people like myself start doing the work for themselves instead of putting people of color in the position of having to mentor us teach us and guide us and ultimately make us feel better about everything we need to do this work it's our turn. you know i think that's very true that we did a little of the work and i think it's also important to recognize when people hear . someone say the way in. which there was a society at the very were you are racist what. people get upset because they're like i'm so over for love but the truth this is we're talking about suspects in that and we're talking about overarching story about the lore of populations of

color that we can't know what is in some form and so it is important if you do have that love if you do so when there was nothing but love in my heart with you it will all races and ethnicities that you were one then to investigate their complicity in violence that are part of the populations of color i want to just go back a few days on twitter how lucky here my laptop and then we go to gemas book. and then we have a protester. i finished reading this book yesterday question attic and then. you write a whole book about the violence of white male metta quote mediocrity and then you look at the news coming from d.c. and you say to yourself yeah traffic's you take us back in your book to the wild west when the europeans 2nd this came to united states in the 1st place and that is where you start with your journey and that's

a little bit like that mean this is how it started this is how we're doing if you if this is how we're doing is the capitol building riot how do you how do you do that timeline between those 2 things it's almost like you knew what was going to happen. you know i would say it's interesting because people have been asking how can you know how do you know when to put this book out read this book read a great have and unfortunately i think any time would be the right time i think that if you don't know your history this looks like a surprise to you how it has come from but if you know your history you know the sort of violence was inevitable could have a step on this violent path who've been around since the founding of this country you know was founded on violence and oppression and the power that it has has been that way and any time there's a threat to it and the sponsor is incredibly special to white no power and so if we look at history we see this over and over again you know starting with the founding

of this country through the experience with through the west will genocide of native peoples we see this time and time again whenever we make social progress through the civil rights movement we see this violent backlash and what we're seeing today you know is that same ideology but idea that might makes right and that white people in particular a white man have manifest destiny and have a god given right to the land and the people. we're seeing today that reaffirmation of that entitlement when it feels threatened by social progress. coming from you chip william putting everybody in the same bracket tsunami shaped. a race is not racist a number of people are quite frustrated that they feel as if you are talking to everybody who is a white male. yes i am and i am not necessarily

saying that every white man is you know out protesting and or out trying to have a coup. actively openly supported by whites and but what i'm saying is that we have a problem in white male identity and the white power structure that's what i'm talking about is a power structure and the most predominant and powerful power structure in this country which is you know white supremacist patriarchy and i would say you know even in the u.k. we see this as well and so absolutely this has been built in the image whether you like it or not if you are in white now and that means because you benefit from that you have some responsibility for it and you need to look at it openly if you can't handle hearing about it because it makes you feel implicated without stopping and going wait am i implicated isn't yet so far you're not actually in fasted in making change you value your comfort over the ways in which this violent system is

crushing willing people of color. look in your book this is about status by making politeness and mellowness to. disinter vice white men from working to privileged status if you're constantly saying to be great just a being why would you struggle to make a real contribution who do you know in this felt that you have seen who everybody construct description name names oh i mean. i would say you know right now 6 what we're looking at in this country is textbook for this if we're looking at. you know many of the people of arsenic we're looking at the president of this country who are looking at the leaders of many of those who. are white men who give the promise that you could be an everyday joe no special talent and you deserve greatness not

what you need daring what you need is the ability to overpower other and the new and none of these will of course actually need that but people want that you know i think part of the appeal of people like say donald trump is that he made any kind of bumbling person who was afraid of their own we are pretty unfairly or feel like they can to lose or we'll look at trends business for her you know this is not when you go. the slick the special extra smart choices what you think you see is sort of who fills up more time and time again and that is what we've been told everyone you know every white male should be able to have and so we see them scored a grand scale but i would also say if people ever worked in any kind of office setting or even academia you see this time and time again resummon looks better and then they can actually lead but because they think this person. they are moving ahead of the people who are actually creating and want more but i will also say

part of what the speaks to is is a direct conflict because there are many white. i don't think you know exactly what it needs to be great and what it takes what they find what is asked of them expected isn't actually greatness and there is an internal conflict that koontz as well while i'm often feel like their leaders perhaps their actions are bringing the success of promise but it is exactly what our society is telling them to do or to strike out never compromise aggression and of caution to get ahead and when it doesn't work when it isn't rewarded the said well for the program we'll talk about what people do wrong you know and when it's not really have the answer or fulfillment there were a lot of my who are wrong and so we have to recognize this is this is something that harms everyone including what. is a part of the book when you take a moment to talk about some very high profile congresswoman you who came into power in 2080 to alexandra who tests will hand i am

a christian and she determined and how then just being in a traditionally male space was irritating the president of the united states and also a lot of people around them including the democratic party so last summer i just want to take a little moment where. gave a press conference and spoke about they were not going to be deterred by the president or anybody who was criticizing what they were doing and how they were doing it have a listen. despite the occupant of the white house a chance to marginalize us and just silence please know that we are more than 4 people. we re not a mandate to advocate for and to represent those ignored left out and left behind.

any person committed to building a more equitable and just. listen he jane states policy you can see one of those 4 women and having struggles battling the establishment what he's going on as he just on such and such an e. it's inside. and i think it's also a threat to our power structures i think it's really important to recognize that the cross party line people are invested in making sure that any progress we make doesn't rock the boat too much even then last political circles and what these women represent with their new ideas with their all apologetic focus on the most marginalized populations in our society is a threat to grow the structures that you know that keep our leadership on the left as well and so absolutely we see this but also in. white

america it's the fault that someone who doesn't look like them would represent something completely not only foreign hostile to that and so they have not you know trying to emulate the you know white not trying to over focus on the most privileged parts of our population over the needs of the underprivileged for them makes them feel like this is not their representative it doesn't represent them and therefore doesn't represent america because we have allowed the united states to be synonymous with whiteness in this country and so i do think it is both inside and racism that income tax for women of color who are really trying to leave voices for her to question. this is mr. dangerous black male america. you know i think that

what we're looking at when we look at patriarchy. is dangerous across racial and ethnic spectrums and i would absolutely say you know as a black woman that we need. you know that is a risk to us wherever we see cuts masculinity and. one who is. black male america is incredibly doesn't howard and i would say in a risk to our systems to leverage what america is quite low and talk about this what i'm talking about our power structure when we say who is a power structure look at representation when we look at even you know a great story we're at who is in our marriage offices and who is in our you know cortical in our government we're not seeing an overabundance of black men to make choices you know that harm us and so i would say in fact what we're seeing is the systemic of liberal disenfranchisement and you know inclusiveness of black men in

this country by a white supremacist system so i would say the danger as a political structure doesn't exist. what people are wrestling with right now and it's interesting because you've written another book about race which is so you want to talk about race and how difficult it is for some people to even just talk about the obvious that's right in front of. people and now in 2021 arresting this is an idea of. some white males taking out their frustration and then becoming violent and this is what challenge this is how janet friends and leaders to see how you see that journey to silence. the crisis of white masculinity in america is the crisis of america itself and here's why men feel that they are the victims of perceived

persecution or the belief that they are being left behind in the global economy or any number of cultural wars and conflicts they are becoming more and more radicalized and willing to join a specialist to group anti democratic movements and are becoming more and more politically and also physically violent what was interesting in your book gemma was that design it started right at the very beginning from taking away lands from native americans it didn't seem like it was a new kind of violence and that's what my takeaway was from watching and reading your book and your analysis that it was fine and like the beginning of the start of america as european americans know. absolutely and i think that we have to recognize that the founding of this country was in front of you while it and

horrific and started not only with the genocide of one population of color but with the force incitement of another and then this country was built over generation after generation of exploitation of labor of color we have to recognize that that history didn't go away that in fact you know our founding institutions in this country were built to uphold those power structures and to make sure that that wasn't polling and if we don't recognize that we learned our history a little learn how to do this is violence in the bible in our institutions we will not we have the mid ourselves of. a higher you know education siskel the office violence doesn't expire criminal justice system built this sort of expire. off the system doesn't just expire and we have to actually investigate and tear apart the ways. to find lots of tennis. oh new she began a new really inspiring a lot of conversations i know i know you're used to this this is fine with derek

how long is it going to take the full things ever change since it seems america has always had this issue what are the main things that will lead to change you ask this question all the time. i really am and i think it's really important to recognize that part of why we haven't been able to make it so there's a couple of things that happened while it was that we have you know almost exclusively framed discussions on race was going on around personal feelings and personal animus. if you walk around actively hating people of color you are sexist if you walk around actively hating women and if you're not who you are a good person part of the solution but what we're actually talking about are systems we're talking about systems built to advantage some populations over other systems built to exploit the labor of members of our population and to give people a sense of what for with that explanation and oppression and we are told to look at

you know personal relationships only because people make money off of the system and gain power from the system about what is looking at it so that when we do well in good systems revolution ethnic political change systemic change what we see is an immediate violent backlash like we saw this past week. because people are so afraid of systemic change and so we have to recognize it's by design that we have a better addressing making the sort of change in our systems because we've been told time and time again it's not possible and that's where the problem lines or we have been punished. for adult progress we make in that area and so it is vital that we look at that and recognize that this is where our work lies and you have to click through we have never ending up on the systems were built by people they are not they move but we are told that they are and we are led to believe that they are so that we will do the work but we are powerful if we come together and actually start gauging our systems to push for change we can create it and that if we could

create it there wouldn't be such a violent backlash towards our conflicts because people see that change coming and they are afraid of. a.g.n. is a society so a community organizer and misses his take about now what to eat. i think there are a lot of people in the united states that are ready to reckon with racism and white supremacy and the majority of those people are by around indigenous and people of color. you know why supremacy is something that our very existence and that is pervasive and there are within every system of this country and so i think it was require white people are. giving up. the advantages that they have more than your heart otherwise and so that will be the challenge and i will always be the challenge generalising i really wanted to touch on because you speak so

comfortably and confidently about white supremacy patriarchy but when you work on a book like this there is a a toll when you talk about racism and white supremacy and hate and people who don't like you talking about that make it very very clear can you show that part of your work do you mind. yeah you know i think that anyone who especially if you are a person of color or so if you're a black woman. when you threaten the system the system comes back for you and people who are invested in system come for you and absolutely my experience while it might seem extreme if you're not doing this work is not unfamiliar to many back of all who have been fighting for liberation and for change in this country and so you know we have been threatened we have had you know officers brought to our home when we were slighted we have had to move from our home due to regular harassment

and threats in our home they says a regular occurrence and it's i am not alone and if you look at history and even if you look at the book you'll see time and time again generation after generation the way in which people are made to pay christie he grew up around these systems but i think it's also important to note that this comes from people every day people who are writing about whites who haven't see every day people of color who do something anything that inconveniences the power structure into meaning says whiteness in this country we are often met with a violent backlash and we see this in one of our news stories where you know black people can't have a barbecue or you know sell lemonade without someone calling the police on them. violent rapper cautions who are waiting for all of us who matter what we do if we ever challenge the system or even. look and this is really strange i'm going to

ask if you could. leave it where i was at the end of the show how do you have these types of conversations with people who must ily denial how racist america is. you know i would say this is good advice i'm going to give to white people because i believe that this is a conversation that we're going to have with each other i don't believe this is the do the people who have written about it because we have our books we have our articles you know we've said what needs to happen i would say to tell your own journey with other white people share how you came from believing this wasn't a problem because there was a time we need to get to where you are now and take people with you and take them on a path where they can join you in making change and also investigate where you still have to go and show people the changes you're working to make in yourself and in your life and in your community right now. joe a thank you so much for sharing your thoughts for unpacking a lot of your book to know what everything so if you want to read

a john was work really dig deep this is a beautiful stories about history united states that you may not know how did we get to where we are right now so we're actually digging in team so he works i'm going to recommend to you one is on my laptop so you want to talk about race that's the those 1st look at a german wrote and that was just a few years ago and that will help you have those uncomfortable conversations in israeli and then like in issues in heaven so many book clubs were really out at the dangerous legacy of white male power that is by a joke. and that is one way that you can also catch up with work and look out for some of the ferry and many online events where you can see here and talk to a general a new about her latest book you choose this thank you for your conversation really appreciate it i think one can sign off and the a.j. strain of additions to the allison next on capital.

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