Congresswoman Karen Bass Talks about How Her Background in Social Work Shapes Her, Her Plan for Los Angeles, and the Importance of the Rap Endorsement

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 4 July 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Los Angeles Mayoral candidate Karen Bass joins Talib Kweli for a deep discussion about race and politics, as well as how Bass’ upbringing, social work, and experiences play into her politics. Aside from the concerns of Los Angeles, and her plans for the city if she were to become mayor, Kweli and Bass also discuss the George Floyd Policing Act, her relationship with BLM and the importance of the rap endorsement.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO. You are about to hear an
0:04.8	excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up
0:09.7	Jasmine? What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes with stars from the game
0:14.8	to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish, subscribe to the Luminary channel on
0:20.4	Apple Podcasts. What's your position on reparations in HR 40 and if it's if if you're in favor of
0:29.2	reparations, what needs to be done to push this idea forward? We need to get rid of some of the
0:37.2	Republicans that are there so we can push the idea forward. I mean, you know, California, I think
0:42.4	is going to set a model. California had an HR 40 version and they now have a a committee on
0:50.3	reparations. And then I think Bruce Beach is a perfect example. Bruce Beach, you know, land that
0:55.3	was stolen from a black family here. And so that was land that was stolen. And so, you know, it's
1:01.0	now being given back to that family. I actually think that there's a bunch of examples of reparations
1:06.6	going on around the country. Yeah, Illinois has an example, right? Yeah. And several of the colleges,
1:11.4	the Ivy League colleges that made their money off of enslaved folks are now looking for ways,
1:18.8	you know, to give back. So unfortunately, yes, I support HR 40, but unfortunately, HR 40,
1:25.2	is not going to get to the president's desk because it will never get through through the Senate.
1:31.5	But, you know, right now, I mean, two years ago, we were talking about systemic racism with
1:36.8	George Floyd and people were beginning to look at institutional racism for people like me who
1:42.6	fought for these issues for a long time. It was thrilling to see now this become a part of
1:47.4	popular vocabulary. Right. But the minute we started talking about it, the minute people started
1:53.0	questioning US history and like the monuments and things like that, then they created, you know,
1:57.9	critical race theory and invented that, which is basically a way of saying that we do not want to
2:03.2	tell the truth about US history. We're worried about white children being injured emotionally.
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