THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 90: Who Speaks for Black People w/ Pascal Robert

I met Pascal Robert through professor and author, Tourè Reed.  Tourè warned me he's got some great takes on a lot of the things we like to discuss, like the Black misleadership class, and (as Pascal calls them) "Negroliberals", a pundit class of black neoliberals who are hoisted into the position of "The voice of the Black community" by the ruling class.  If you didn't catch Pascal and Toure on the weekly Tuesday Night Livestream, you can peep that here:

https://youtu.be/hSUfBIW0fak

 

So after that show, we of course stayed in contact and Pascal sent over this real interesting piece on the radio show shock jock turned alleged keeper of the Black vote, Charlamagne tha God. Here's a clip of Rachelle Hampton's piece:

Charlamagne is not the first radio personality that the Democratic political establishment has viewed as its main conduit to Black voters. Many politicians including Bill Clinton and Barack Obama visited the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. (“To some, you’re considered the voice of Black America,” one newspaper reporter said to Joyner in a 1999 interview.) Then came Tavis Smiley, who started out as a guest on Joyner’s show, before hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR and Public Radio International. (He also had a PBS talk show until he was dismissed for alleged sexual misconduct.) Smiley interviewed political figures including Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Obama, but his relationship to the Democratic establishment cooled after the president declined to appear at an event Smiley was hosting and Smiley became a vocal public critic of the administration.

You can read the entire piece here:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/charlamagne-tha-god-white-political-establishment-breakfast-club.html

 

Pascal Robert is a lawyer by trade that has written for Huffington Post, and he now writes for Black Agenda Report.  You can read his work here:

https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/Pascal%20Robert

 

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