It’s not every day you get to talk to the president, and Princeton Professor Eddie Glaude says New anomaly Molly Jong-Fast that he won’t let the depth of the situation stop him from telling “the most powerful man in the world” that he has an opportunity to “open up a new America”.
Glaude, an expert in African-American studies and presenter History is America podcast, said that Americans must speak out loudly for democracy or risk seeing the country fall back.
“What I have witnessed during President Biden’s first term is that our problems in this country are much deeper than the Republican illiberalism or the violence of Trumpism. . It cuts much deeper than that. It goes to the Democrats, to ordinary everyday people who are willing to be complicit in their silence. So we have a lot of work to do if we want to save the Republic,” he said.
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“I watched the George Floyd Policy Justice Act languish in Congress. I watched the attack on the Critical Race Theory. I watched the ‘Don’t say gay’ law, watched the Roe V Wade being overturned, and I saw that this was really an all-out attack on the mid-20th century revolutions. That we wanted to go back. , that there’s been this nostalgic yearning, and of course, at the heart of it is the January 6 uprising and you’ve heard ‘Stop the Steal’ and you know, “we’re going to take the country back.” ours.'”
“[Biden] was the first vice president of the first African-American president, he was the first president to have the first African-American vice president. He can usher in a new America, changing the country’s focus, if he dares to be bold.
“The scale of the problems we face requires a large-scale response,” he said.
Additionally, Beast contributor Francisco Alvarado joined the group to talk about his report on a petition underway in Nebraska to require people to show ID when voting in elections . A police investigation has been started over claims that petitioners were fraudulently collecting signatures. And who runs the voter ID campaign? None other than Marlene Ricketts – billionaire co-owner of the Chicago Cubs and mother of Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts.
“She donated $376,000 last July and that’s basically what [voter ID] Alvarado said.
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