Kamala Harris and Me
with Destiny and Kyla Turner
Last month, I flew down to Miami Beach to record an episode of Bridges, a podcast dedicated to fostering dialogue between its liberal hosts—the streamers Kyla Turner and Destiny—and conservative guests. Destiny is a fierce debater, so I was ready to duke it out. But it seems he and Kyla invited me in the spirit of curiosity, and they asked me questions about economics, politics, and my life that really allowed me to stretch out and fully explain myself. In this clip, they ask me how my own racial self-understanding has shaped my attitude toward Kamala Harris and the larger issue of racial representation in politics. And you can watch the full episode here.
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I started watching and listening to Glenn Loury a few decades ago. I wanted to understand why blacks were ostensibly failing in the USA. I was born and raised as a Rhodesian but escaped Zimbabwe to live in Australia. Weirdly, our love and affection for indigenus blacks with whom we were raised, was made out to be racist. I searched to find a black man in America, one I could trust, to inform me. I found the brilliant economist Glenn Loury. I admit I often fumed at what I considerede to be vacillations; obfuscations; excuses and lack of accountability by the most privileged "black' people in the world. I read Glenn Loury's auto-biography 'Late Admissions' and was satiated. We are the same age, we are both educated and pheno-typical of our times. I think the moniker 'African' should be dropped in the USA. I am now an Australian but with a far deeper understanding of 'black' Africa than most black Americans. It is hard not to like Americans, but Americans with a chip on their shoulder, make me sick.
I despise destiny-cannot support anything he is in -he was happy a msn was shot and killed at a Trump rally-he’s not a fierce debater he just screams and name calls! Glenn you are better than getting wrapped up with the likes of him ! Cannot-will not watch