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right in depth analysis of the dates. global headlines inside story on al jazeera, the pi answering ok. you watching the string on today's episode. you're going to be looking at this book, mediocre, dangerous legacy of white male america. the also is a job, a job, right? nice to see you walk into the streams. great to happy for a whole 25 minutes that he's not going to me. now what we're going to do a job with the title of the book. how many people do you think he treated with the title alone? you know, it was hilarious because i think that we've been talking about my vehicle, my man for a very long time. and i felt like it was shocking to me when people are like, wow, which provocative title because i'm like what we call this so. so people certainly

were upset about it, but also i think no matter what i paddled the books, those are people who are not going to pick it up. you know, i definitely by the people who know something is wrong. and there are a lot of people who recognize it's a nominal and want to know more about it and how it works and what we can do about it. you took a moment fee, which is quite a personal moment, which is the start of you deciding that you want to write the book. and then what you write, it's very universal. can you take us back to that moment when you thought i need to put this down in a book? certainly, and they talk about getting of the book, the inspiration for this and left him a frustration. but the teacher moment moment was, you know, time to be in the roads retreat with other women. and this was the time to relax to focus on craft. it was a treat you know, that would be developed because women. so we are, we get a chance to focus on their work and all we could really talk about and what we needed to talk about where these then these white men that were impacting our

lounging years so heavily. and it, as people kept saying, why the wife was happening, what is the homeless, you know, i kept the story unfold in kind of the path that led to where we were killer time and where we are today. and i wanted other people to see it. so that we could start looking at the power and some of the as a whole instead of treating each individual a bad actor like an individual. and so part of the systemic problems. and so i want to really show that story to people, so they can we are an island youtube right now. if you'd like to talk to jona, you, you absolutely can jump into the comment section and be part of today's discussion . questions of edward mckinley and jonah, who is a big fan of your work, he's in the author, wrote that if you are way to warn, 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 silence until white people like me already to lean into that fact and start doing some very strong and powerful inner work. as far as questions for the author, i have a 1000000. but i also think it's important that way people like myself started doing the work for themselves. instead of putting people of color into position of having to mentor as teachers and guide us and all the way make us feel better about everything we need to do this work is our turn. you know, i think that's very true that we do really do the work and i think it's also important to recognize when people hear um someone say away in chrome, even in her western society where you are, you are raises. what happens this, you lose? people get upset because they're like, i'm sold with love, but the truth is, as we're talking about says, looks like it is treated. mm hm. and we're talking about overarching stories about the value of population of color that we can't,

no one is exempt for. and so it is important if you do have that love, if you refer to the wife, nothing but love in my heart with these will all races and ethnicities that you'd be willing then to investigate your complicity in violence systems that are harmed populations of color. i will just go back a few days on twitter. have a look here at my laptop. and there we go to jo, miss book and there we have a protester, perhaps a writer. i finished reading this book yesterday, prophetic. and then a german. you write a whole book about the violence of white mel medical mediocrity. and then you look at the news coming from d. c. and you say to yourself, yeah, 8 tracks. you take us back in your book to the wild west. when the european settlers came to united states in the 1st place, and that is where you start with your journey. when that's

a little bit like that mean, this is how it started. this is how we're doing it. if it, if this is how we're doing is the capital building riot, how do you, how do you draw that timeline between those 2 things? it's almost like you knew what was going to happen. you know, i would say interesting because if it was i'm asking how can you know, how do you know when to put this book out? you write this book, read it right, carmen. unfortunately, i think anytime would be the right time. i think that if you don't know his history, this looks like a surprise to you. like how was it was come from. but if you know your history, you know, that sort of, i was, was inevitable, inevitable step on the violent path we've been on since the founding of this country. this country was founded on violence and oppression. and if the power that it had to maintain that way and any time there's a threat through it, the response is incredibly violent, especially to white mental power. and so if we look at history, we see this over and over again. you know, starting with the founding of this country to the violent expansion to the west and

genocide of native peoples. we see this time and time again whenever we make social progress to the supervisor movement, we susan violent backlash. and what we're seeing today is that same ideology, but idea that might makes right. and that white people in particular, white men have manifest destiny and have a god given right to the land. and the people were seen today, that reaffirmation of that entitlements when it feels threatened by social progress . let me show you some sorts that are coming from you chip. what am i putting everybody in the same brackets? synonymy fit t, verifying a race? is that not race? is there a number of people who are quite frustrated that they feel that you are talking to everybody who is a white male? are you i mean,

i'm not necessarily saying that every white man is, you know, protesting and or trying to have a qu, accident open supporting my life. but what i'm saying is that we have a problem in white, no identity, and the white power structure is what i was talking about is a power structure. and the most predominant and powerful power structure in this country, inches wide premises. patriarchy, and i would say, you know, even in told me, see this as well. and so absolutely, the 2 things from your image, whether you like it or not, if you are a white man. and that means because you benefit from us, you have some responsibility for it. i 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 implicate from? chances are you're not actually invested in making change. you value your comfort over the ways in which the silence system is crushing and killing people of color.

little bit here in your book, this is about status by making whiteness and melanin overboard. we distinctly thought descent, divide white men from working to net privilege status. if you are confident you seem to be great, just being white, a male, why would you struggle to make a real contribution to you know, in this class that you have seen that description named 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 in our senate for looking at the president of the country, we're looking at the leaders of many of our sales differences. we spend our white men who did the promise that you could be an everyday jo, of no special talent and you deserve greatness. what you need is staring what you need is the ability to overpower other and then another field of core actually

leads to that. but people want that, you know, i think part of the appeal as people like say donald trump is that he made any kind of fumbling person who was afraid of their own mediocrity and failure. feel like they could look at some distance. i heard, you know, this is not when you go yeah, this like this person is strong, smart choices. what you, what you see is someone who fails upward time and time again. and that is what we've been told. ringback everyone, you know, every white mill should be able to have and so we see this on a grand scale. but i would also say you ever worked in any kind of office setting or even academia you see this time and time again with some of the better and high . and they can actually lead. but because we flip this persona there move ahead of the people who actually creating and what more. but i will also say part of what the speaks to is, is a direct conflict because there are many,

you know exactly what it needs to be great and what it takes. and what they find is, what is asked of an expected of m isn't actually greatness and the rhythm in her internal conflict that creates as well. where white men often feel like failures because perhaps their actions are not bringing the success promise. but it is exactly what our society is telling them to do, to strike out a world compromise, to use aggression and oppression to get ahead. and it, when it doesn't work, when it isn't rewarded to say what it is rewarded for donald trump. what did i do wrong? you know, when it's not bringing happiness or fulfillment or wondering what am i doing wrong? and so we have to recognize this is, this is something that harms everyone including white map. there's a part in the book. you take a moment to talk about some very high profile congress women who, who came in to power in 2018 to alexandra casio, cortez ill, hannah omar,

i anna presley. and she to, to that and how them 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 know what, where does the 4th it gave a press conference and spoke about they were not going to be deterred by the precedent or anybody who was criticizing what they were doing and how they were doing it. have this despite the occupant of the white house, a tips to marginalize us and to silence us. please know that we are more than 4 people. we ran on a man day to advocate for him to represent those ignored left, out and left behind. our squad is big,

our squad includes any persons committed to building a more equitable and just world almost any day united states quality, she can see one of those for women and having struggle with battling with the establishment. what is going on there? i think just old fashioned misfortune it's, it's actually an racism. and i think it's also a threat to our power structures. i think it's really important to recognize that across party lines, people are investigated, making sure that any progress we make doesn't rock the boat from us, even in less political circles. and what these women represent with their new ideas, with their unapologetic focus on the most emotional populations in our society, is a threat to political structures that keep our leadership on the left on top as well. and so absolutely we see this, but also what is the white the thought that someone who doesn't look like them

would represent something completely, not only for him but hostile to that. and so the sweat that they. ringback have in not, you know, trying to emulate why not trying to over focus on the most privileged part of our population over the needs of them under privileged for them makes me feel like this is not their representative. it doesn't matter to them. and therefore, does everything america gives me the allowed united states to be phenomenal with whiteness in this country. and so i do think it is both inside you, me and racism that impacts these for women of color who are really trying to voices for the on her. some questions from you to this is mr. solo. how dangerous is black male america? you know, i think that what we're looking at when we look at patriarchy patricia is dangerous

across racial ethnic spectrum. and i would absolutely say, you know, as a black woman, that many women bucks on, you know, that is a risk to us forever. we see customers here in the black mail. america is incredibly empowered and i would say, you know, the risks to our systems, to the average white american is quite low. and so when we talk about this, what i'm talking about our power structure, when we say, who was supposed to look at representation when we look at even, you know, paid rates. when we look at who is in our management offices and who is in our political and our government, we're not seeing an over abundance of last men making choices. you know, that harm up. and so i would say in fact, what we're seeing is the systemic. and literate disenfranchisement and improvement of black men in this country find white supremacy system. so i would say danger as

a political structure doesn't exist. what people wrestling with right now and i, and it's interesting because you've written another book about race, which is you want to talk about race and how difficult it is for some people to even just talk about the obvious. that's why in front of our faces. but people now in 2021 arrestin, this is my dear, of some white males taking out their frustration and then becoming violent. and this is what jarrett, this is how jarrett framed the i'm really interested to see how you see that journey towards violence. his job, the crisis of why masculinity in america is the crisis of america itself. and is 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 in any number of cultural wars and conflicts. they are becoming more and more radicalized and willing to join shifting movements, anti democratic movements, and are becoming more and more politically, and also physically violent. what was interesting in your book was that design. it started wide at the very beginning from taking away lands from native americans. it didn't seem like it was a new kinds of violence and that's what mike takeaway was from watching and reading your book and you analysis that it was fine. all right, from the beginning of the, the start of america as european americans know it. absolutely, and i think that we have to recognize that the founding of this country was kind of violent in brutal and sick. and for the not only with the genocide,

the one population of color that with the force and placement of another. and then this country was built over generation generation exploitation of labor of population 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 a whole goal power structures and to make sure that that power was maintained. and if we don't recognize that and learn our history and then learn how this violence is infected in our institutions, we will not be able to rid ourselves of just fire, you know, an education system built off. the silence doesn't expire. criminal justice system built up, expire hon. we built off the systems, doesn't just expire. we have to actually investigated and tear apart the ways from which because wed like dependency on youtube. again, as you really inspiring a lot of conversations, i know i know you're used to this. this is fly with derrick. how long is it going

to take before things ever changed since it seems america has always had this issue . what is the main things that will lead to change? you ask this question all the time. really, i think it's really important to recognize that part of why we haven't been able to make progress. so there's a couple of things that happen. one is that we have, you know, almost exclusively frame discussions on race, around personal feelings and personal add them as a racist if you walk around actively hating people of color, right? you are sex. and if you walk around with actively hating women, and then if not, you are a good person part of the solution. but what we're actually talking about our system. we're talking about systems built to advantage from populations over other systems built to the labor of members of our population and to give people a sense of comfort with that exploitation and oppression. and we are told to look at, you know, personal relationships only because people make money of the system and being power

. i don't want to looking at it so that when we do india systems, right, when we start to make political change, scott mc change. what we see is the media violence backlash, like we saw this last week. right? because people are so afraid of systemic change. since we have to recognize that if i been dying, that we haven't been addressing and making sort of change in our systems. because we've been told time and time again, it's not possible if that's a problem life or we have been punished viciously for any progress we make in that area. and to model that we look at that and recognize that this is where i work wise and we have to push through. we have never ending up from these systems. ready were built by people, they are not immovable, but we are told that they are and we are led to believe that they are so that we don't do the work. but we are powerful if we come together and actually start engaging in systems to be pushed for change. we can create it and that if we can create it, there wouldn't be such

a violent backlash towards our comforts because people see that change coming. and they are afraid of a journey is a scientist in a community organizer and this is his take about now what to eat in here. yes. 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 like round indigenous and people of color, you know, was primacy. something that threatens our very existence and that is pervasive and his and better within every system or this country. and so i think it will require white people. i'm giving up the, the advantages of the house for the mere fact that their wife and so that will be the challenge that i will always be the challenge driven isn't really wanted to touch on because she speaks so comfortably and confidently about white supremacy of

patriarchy, but when you walk in a book like this, there is a, a toll. when you talk about racism, white supremacy and hate, and people who don't like you talking about that, make it very, very clear. can you shed not potter feel? what do you mind? yeah, you know, i think that anyone who, especially if you are a person of color, honestly if you are a black woman we, when you threaten the system, the system comes back for you and people who are investing system come to you. and absolutely my experience, while it might seem extreme, if you're not doing this work, is not unfamiliar to many black people who have been fighting for liberation and for change in this country. and so, you know, we have been threatened, we've had, you know, officers brought to our home when we were swatted, we have had to move from our home due to regular harassment and that's 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 proposals, you'll see time and time generation after generation, the way in which people are made to take chris speaking around these systems. but i think it's also important to note that this comes for people everyday people who aren't writing about why, who have missy everyday people of color, who do something, anything that inconveniences the power structure of inconveniences. whiteness in this country. you are often madness of violence back. why should we see this in plenty of our new stories where, you know, black people can't have a barbecue, or, you know, so lemonade without someone calling the police on them, right. these violent repercussions are waiting for all of us, no matter what we do. if we ever challenge the system or even inconvenience, no one will come and this is trembling rainy. i'm going to ask if you could answer saturday if, because can you believe it?

we're always at the end of the show. how do you have these types of conversations with people? we're still in denial of how racist america is. you know, i would say this is advice i'm going to give the white people because i believe that this is a conversation to have with each other. i don't believe this is going to be written about it. we've talked about it, we have our books, we have our articles, you know, we 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 when you did it, where you are now and take people with you and take them on and pass me where they can join you in making change and investigate where you have to go and show people the changes your work into making yourself and in your life and in your community right now. joe lewis. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts for unpacking a lot of your book for not everything. so if you want to read a job was work really dig deep decimal,

beautiful stories about history. united states, the you may not know. how do we get to where we are right now? so we're actually digging into so 2 books, i'm gonna recommend t one is on my laptop. so you want to talk about race. that's to the 1st book that a geno wrote and that was just a few years ago. and that will help you have those uncomfortable conversations. liz rainy and then oh my goodness, using what cub heaven said when he booked us, what really? ok, the dangerous legacy. a white male power, that is my job. oh, and that is one way that you can also catch up with her work and look out for some of the ferry and many online events where you can hear and talk to joe marano about her latest book. youtube has thank you for your conversation. really appreciate it, i think. yeah. okay, silent often, the ha stream, how addition studio was me next time i

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