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a favorite of an. old big enough. to carry through an international perspective to try to carry a ball or did i get it and feel like this is an important part of what i did is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. i actually i k you watch in the street on today's episode you're going to be looking at this book mediocre at a dangerous legacy of white male america is a job or a load right nice to see you walk into the stream is great to have you for a whole 25 minutes that is not going to be enough but we're going to do our best job with the title of the book how many people do you think you treat it was the title alone. you know it was hilarious to me because i think that we've been

talking about the local right man for a very long time and i felt like it was shocking to me when people were ploughs it about the title because i'm like it's almost what we call that it's so some people certainly were upset about it but also i think a lot of what i thought of the book those were people who were that were in the peak about you know i definitely 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 is 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. certainly and then 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 you know trying to be in the right retreat with other women and this was a prince with

a lot to focus on. you know what that was we wouldn't tell it because women so rarely get a chance to focus on their work and all we could really talk about what was the talk about were these men these white man that were impacted. so heavily and. i think. what is behind this 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 that we could start looking at the harder it's a look at. it said 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 like to do it you absolutely can't jump into the commit sex you can be part of today's discussion question start with. who is a b.

and of your. inner versus what the author wrote but if you are way more and raised in 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 live 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 isn't something and so it is important if you do have that love if you do so when there was never about love in my heart with you it will all races and ethnicities that you know where when 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 gemma's 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 that howard 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 is that

way and any time there's a threat to it the sponsor is incredibly violent especially to white not 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 was 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. you know were seen 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 protestingly and or out trying to have a coup. actively openly supported by whites and 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 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 when she had so far 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. little bit in your book this is about status by making politeness and mellowness to. disinter vice white men from working to privileged status if you are constantly saying to be great just to being one to mel 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 when we look at france business for her you know this is not when we go now. 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 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 think you're exactly what it needs to be great and what it takes and what they find what is asked of them expected isn't actually great and there is an internal conflict that as well while i'm often feel like failures because perhaps their actions are not bringing the success promised but it is exactly what our society is telling them to do or to strike out alone never compromise aggression and of caution to get ahead and when it doesn't work when it isn't rewarded the said well you will took over what people do wrong you know and when it's not really happening and so or fulfillment there were a lot of iraq 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 congresswomen you who came into power in 28 he said alexander ok 0. ill 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 their own democratic party so last summer i just want to take a little moment where the furious that 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 to silence please know that we are more than

4 people. we re not a mandate to advocate for him to represent those ignored left out and left behind. it is big. that includes any person committed to building an equitable and just. us any day and night estates collision you can see one of those 4 women and having struggles battling with the establishment money's going on as it is done 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 party line its people are invested in making sure that any progress we make doesn't rock the boat too much even then in the 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. we white america it's the fault that someone who doesn't look like them would represent something completely not only foreign. and so they ringback have not you know trying to emulate the you know white not trying to over focus on the most privileged part of our population over the needs of them or privileged 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 impacts these 4 women of color who are really trying to lead voices for her to questions.

how 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 many. you know that is a risk to us wherever we see cuts masculinity and the. one who is out of. whack male america is incredibly doesn't howard and i would say in a risk to our systems to the average white america is quite low and so let me 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 look 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

the 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 inclusion of black men in this country by white supremacy 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 of. some white males taking out their frustration and then becoming violent and this is what challenge this is how judge 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 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 of movements 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 now. absolutely and i think that we have to recognize that the founding of this country was incredibly violent and brutal 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 a generation a generation of exploitation a 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 our 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 a sort of expire part of the system doesn't just expire and we have to actually

investigate and tear apart the ways. to find lots of tennis. and you cheat again it's did you read spying 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 scenes ever changes it seems america has always had this issue what is the many things that will lead to change you ask this question all the time. i really ringback am and i think it's really important to recognize that part of why we haven't been able to make arrests and so there's a couple of things that happened while it was that we have you know almost exclusively from discussions on race was going on around personal feelings and personal animus. walk around actively hating people of color 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're told to look at you know personal relationships only because people make money off of the system and in power from the systems about well it's looking at work so that when we do well in good systems right when we start make 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 lies 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 search through we have never ending opportunities the systems were built by people they are not to 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 religion and 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 still 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 to music 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're 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 investment system come to you and say 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'm 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 kristie 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 truly strange i'm going to ask if you could. leave it well was at the end of the show how do you have these types of conversations with people who must still in denial how racist america is. you know i would say this is goodbye so 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 that 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. 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 really dig deep this a beautiful stories about history 90 states that you may know what you have how do we get to where we all right now so we're actually digging in team so see what's going to recommend to you one is on my laptop so you want to talk about race that's to those best book that agenda wrote and that was just a few years ago and that will help you have those uncomfortable conversations days rainy and they might get if she's in heaven so many book clubs but really out at the dangerous legacy of white male palla that is by. and that is one way that you can always say catch up with and look out for some of the ferry and many online events where you can see here and talk to a general a new

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