Episode Summary
In this episode of The Tight Rope, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore joins Dr. Cornel West and Professor Tricia Rose to shine light on the current state of crisis in America, white privilege, white fear, and citizen filmmakers. They emphatically connect the catastrophe of the criminal justice system to larger issues and discuss ways to move into a “new normal” that challenges bystander sensibility and police accountability taken out of the larger context of democratic accountability and multiracial solidarity. This is an episode of The Tight Rope that you do not want to miss.
Cornel West
Dr. Cornel West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. A prominent democratic intellectual, social critic, and political activist, West also serves as Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. West has authored 20 books and edited 13. Most known for Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, West appears frequently on the Bill Maher Show, CNN, C-Span, and Democracy Now. West has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films, including Examined Life, and is the creator of three spoken word albums, including Never Forget. West brings his focus on the role of race, gender, and class in American society to The Tight Rope podcast.
Tricia Rose
Professor Tricia Rose is Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. She also holds the Chancellor’s Professorship of Africana Studies and serves as the Associate Dean of the Faculty for Special Initiatives. A graduate of Yale (BA) and Brown University (Ph.D), Rose authored Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (1994), Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy (2003), and The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters (2008). She also sits on the Boards of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Color of Change, and Black Girls Rock, Inc. Focusing on issues relating to race in America, mass media, structural inequality, popular culture, gender and sexuality, and art and social justice, Rose engages widely in scholarly and popular audience settings, and now also on The Tight Rope podcast.
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, one of America’s best-known documentary filmmakers and political provocateurs, has for over 30 years produced controversial and award-winning films and TV series that tackle critically important political and social issues in American society, including big business, corrupt governments and politicians, capitalism, and health care.
Moore, from Flint, Michigan, won the Academy Award for best documentary for his 2002 Bowling for Columbine. He continues to produce successful and controversial films, most recently Planet of the Humans (2019), an eco-documentary and “full-frontal assault” of the failures of the environmental movement, directed by Jeff Gibbs. Moore examines and jokes about current issues on his own podcast Rumble with Michael Moore.
Insight from this episode:
Quotes from the show:
Documentaries from Michael Moore:
Planet of the Humans (2019)
Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018)
Trumpland (2016)
Where to Invade Next (2015)
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009; on Netflix)
Sicko (2009; on Netflix)
Slacker Uprising (2007; on Netflix)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004; on Netflix)
Bowling for Columbine (2002; on Netflix)
The Big One (1997; on Netflix)
Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (1992)
Roger & Me (1989; on Netflix)
Stay Connected:
Cornel West
Website: http://www.cornelwest.com
Twitter: @CornelWest
Facebook: Dr. Cornel West - Home
Instagram: @BrotherCornelWest
Linktree: Cornel West
Tricia Rose
Website: http://www.triciarose.com/
LinkedIn: Tricia Rose
Twitter: @ProfTriciaRose
Facebook: Tricia Rose
Instagram: @ProfTriciaRose
Youtube: Professor Tricia Rose
Michael Moore
Website: https://michaelmoore.com/
Twitter: @MMFlint
Facebook: Michael Moore
Instagram: @MichaelFMoore
Youtube: Michael Moore
Podcast: https://rumble.media/
The Tight Rope
Website: www.thetightropepodcast.com
Instagram: @thetightropepod
Twitter: @thetightropepod
Facebook: The Tight Rope Pod
This episode was produced and managed by Spkerbox Media in collaboration with Podcast Laundry.
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free