Go Where the People Are (with Brittany Young)

Pod Save the People

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This week DeRay, Brittany, Clint, and Sam discuss facial recognition technology, the link between guns and racism, Johns Hopkins ending legacy admissions, and the public perception of Martin Luther King, Jr. Then, DeRay sits down with Brittany Young, who uses the Baltimore dirt bike community to inspire interest in STEM. SHOW NOTES More about Brittany and her program The New York TImes - The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It The Guardian - 'Dying of whiteness': why racism is at the heart of America's gun inaction Smithsonian - Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed The Atlantic - Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey and welcome to the People In this episode we have the news that's
0:05.6	me, Brittany Clinton and Sam as usual.
0:08.4	Then I sit down with Brittany Young, a Baltimore hero who works in the dirt by community and
0:12.0	Baltimore to get young people excited about STEM.
0:15.3	I learned so much from Brittany and she's such a reminder that you take the work where
0:18.7	the people are.
0:20.0	And that is my message for the week and you'll hear this in the conversation Brittany.
0:24.4	But there's one model that says, the people come to you that you have a good idea and
0:28.5	we have built a whole host of models where to access the resource or the knowledge I feel
0:33.7	up to come to you.
0:34.7	There's another way to organize it says we go where people already are.
0:38.5	And Brittany Young saw a dirt by community that was own community and she went to that space
0:45.1	and said, let me help.
0:46.4	Can I help?
0:47.4	And here's what I think we can do.
0:49.2	And that should be all of our work.
0:50.7	You know, you hear people say meet people where they are.
0:53.6	And it's also like can we build skills and capacity where people already are organizing.
0:59.5	People are organizing the basement of the church, let them organize there.
1:02.2	They're doing it on stupes.
1:03.5	Let's talk to people in their stupes.
1:04.7	If the place where more people are getting their information about politics is at the
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