Dream Votes: W. Kamau Bell

Okay, so I put out a Threads post a couple days ago asking if anyone wants to come on this podcast and talk about how everything is racism.

I posted it because I don't feel like that's a controversial opinion.

Like, I don't...

I grew up in a small town in the middle of Michigan.

Mostly white town.

But even I knew, like, slavery actually happened.

That, like, our economy as, like, the American dream was built on...

Uh, let's see, you wouldn't have clothing, cigarettes, uh, food.

Railroads.

There's a lot of things that made prosperity the brand of America, right, that were built on slave labor.

And the reason that they look really good from the outside, like everybody's rich, it's like because they don't pay labor.

They don't pay for labor.

Like there's no labor costs in anything.

So – Anyway, that seems like common sense to me.

And then the fact that I was born a mere 13 years after the Civil Rights Act.

13! Like, children were still children, you know, when I was a child who had been alive for that

Had police stopping them from going into their schools.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And been murdered and all kinds of horrible things.

And then and then someone signs a new piece of paper.

And there was one, you know, 100 years prior to that.

The fact that that happened once, then it happened with Jim Crow.

Then then we said, OK, we're just going to keep changing things on paper.

But like, we're not actually ever going to address the real problem.