Episode 419 - Tavis Smiley Speaks Out on Democratic Party Influence Attempt

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🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Renowned talk show host Tavis Smiley, formerly of BET Tonight & NPR's The Tavis Smiley Show, joins Bad Faith to give a firsthand account of the Democratic Party's attempt to bias his recent interview with Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein. Smiley provides new details as to the nature of the email from a Democratic Party affiliate who attempted to feed Smiley opposition research on Dr. Stein and provides context for how unprecedented this activity is. Smiley also assesses the Harris campaign's approach to Black American voters via his new book Covenant with Black America - 20 Years Later, which assesses the progress (or lack thereof) Black Americans have made under Democratic leadership.

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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0:00.0	With all due respect to our president, Barack Obama,
0:02.7	Black folk don't need lectures on Black Entertainment Television.
0:06.7	You go to Black Entertainment Television,
0:08.0	Mr President, respectfully,
0:09.6	to lecture Black folk, and then you're wrong respectfully
0:12.4	when you tell them that these
0:13.7	things take time. Dr King who you have a bust of in the Oval Office wrote a book
0:18.1	called Why We Can't Wait. Stop telling black folk they got to wait and that these things take time.
0:23.8	We can't wait. Number one, number two, Mr. President, respectfully.
0:27.2	When you say we can't compare what's happening now to what happened 50 years ago, tell that to the
0:31.6	parents of these kids who are being gunned down in America streets.
0:35.2	It is open season on Blackbins and it is in many ways as bad as it was 50 years ago and finally,
0:40.7	here's my point, why go to B.E.T. and give a black folk a lecture, but go to Stephen
0:46.2	Colbert and tell jokes. I don't get that. So, All right I have a real treat for the audience today. I have a real treat for the audience today. I have Tavis Smiley in the house.
1:24.2	Tavis, you are one of the most prolific and renowned
1:27.5	radio commentators, especially in the black community,
1:30.5	and you were also an author back with a new book a covenant with Black America 20 years later
1:38.2	revisiting the original from 20 years ago a book about the land on kind of a pathway, a chart of policies that could
1:45.8	lead to the betterment of black folks in the United States of America.
1:49.4	Welcome to Bad Faith Podcast.
1:51.8	It's an honor to be on the bad faith podcast.
1:55.0	As you know, I'm a huge fan of yours.
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