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And it is a sweeping indictment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis, also author of \u003cem>Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Big Short,\u003c/em> says a public health doctor in California named Charity Dean is one of the people who saw the real danger of the virus before the rest of the country did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13883590']“No one should have to be as brave as Charity Dean was as a local public health officer. To do her job, she had to be brave in a way that brought tears to my eyes,” Lewis tell NPR. “And when I first met her, I realized I had a character because all over her house were like these Post-it notes reminding her to be brave, like … ‘courage is a muscle memory’ or ‘the tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut.’ She had all these kind of inspirational things. And when you get into the story of what Charity Dean … had to do on the ground, your hair stands up on the back of your neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis writes about how Dean tried and tried to get the state officials around her to look at the data and act to make sure the virus didn’t spread. She put it all on the line, her reputation, her job. And across the country, there was another group of doctors led by Carter Mescher trying to do the same thing at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was incredible to me that there was this kind of secret group of seven doctors—they called themselves the Wolverines—who were positioned in interesting places in and around the federal government, who had been together for the better part of 15 years and who had come together whenever there was a threat of a disease outbreak to help organize the country’s response,” Lewis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2020, the Trump administration had disbanded the pandemic response unit and these doctors were forced to go rogue. A mutual acquaintance put Charity Dean in touch with Carter Mescher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And Charity picked up all of Carter Mescher’s analysis. And she said it was like pouring water on a dying plant, that it was the first person she met who was thinking about this threat the way she was thinking about it,” Lewis says. “And so she’s very soon on the private calls. … Think of her as an actual battlefield commander. She’s in the war, in the trenches, as if she’s figured out in the course of her career in public health that there are no generals or the generals don’t understand how the battle’s fought. And she’s going to have to kind of organize the strategy on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13876716']In January and February of 2020, hundreds of Americans in Wuhan, China, were flown back to the U.S. Considering how many people had died of COVID-19 in China at that point, it would have made sense to test those Americans who were coming back. But according to Lewis and his sources, then-CDC Director Robert Redfield refused to test them, saying it would amount to doing research on imprisoned persons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redfield is a particularly egregious example, but he’s an expression of a much bigger problem. And if you just say, ‘Oh, it’s the Trump administration’ or ‘Oh, it’s Robert Redfield,’ you’re missing the bigger picture,” Lewis says. “And the bigger picture is we as a society have allowed institutions like the CDC to become very politicized. And this is a larger pattern in the U.S. government. More and more jobs being politicized, more and more people in these jobs being on shorter, tighter leashes. More the kind of person who ends up in the job being someone who is politically pleasing to whoever happens to be in the White House. And so … the conditions for Robert Redfield being in that job were created long ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87.jpg\" alt=\"'The Premonition: A Pandemic Story' by Michael Lewis.\" width=\"780\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87-768x1167.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Premonition: A Pandemic Story’ by Michael Lewis. \u003ccite>(W. W. Norton & Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lewis says he reached out to the CDC for comment, but the CDC wouldn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what I did was guerilla journalism,” he says. “I interviewed individuals who were willing to talk to me either on background or off the record. And a couple people were on the record. But the CDC itself, I was told would not—didn’t want to talk to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lewis’ reporting, the CDC basically had two positions on the pandemic early on. Early on, it was that there was nothing to see here—that this is not a big deal. It’s being overblown. And then there was this very quick pivot when it started spreading in the U.S. and the position became, ‘It’s too late and there’s nothing we can do.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13879415']“Charity Dean said the great shame of their behavior was they waited so long that we were never in a position to contain it,” Lewis says. “They pretended it wasn’t important until it was too late. That it could have been contained the way it was contained, say, by Australia. There were things we could do [if] they’d been more aggressive right up front. Many, many thousands of Americans would be alive today who are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lewis, the tragedy that became the American coronavirus pandemic was a perfect storm of the reaction of the president at the time, Donald Trump, the long history of politicization of the CDC, and the lack of a public health care system all coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all my characters would say that because of the way we fail to govern ourselves, the way we fail to create a system, this would have been pretty bad under almost any administration and that it would have exposed the holes in the system and the weaknesses in the system—the absence of the system,” Lewis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis followed these doctors inside and outside the federal government for many months as they tried to raise alarm bells and demand the kind of interventions that would have saved lives. But for him, Charity Dean stands apart for what she was willing to risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13874757']“You can’t believe what we are requiring of these people,” Lewis says. “And to me, there was something just unbelievably moving about this woman who had decided that even though she herself was full of fears for all kinds of good reasons, had willed herself to be brave for the sake of other people’s lives. And that had saved all these lives because she’d insisted on this trait in herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a trait that the system not only didn’t reward, it punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the pandemic, you saw this. Charity would tell you—and I think it’s true—that the pandemic has created a kind of selective pressure on our public health officers,” Lewis says. “And it’s removed the brave ones. The brave ones have all got their heads chopped off. 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Norton & Co.","nprStoryId":"991570372","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=991570372&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/991570372/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc?ft=nprml&f=991570372","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 03 May 2021 09:05:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 03 May 2021 05:10:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 03 May 2021 09:05:25 -0400","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2021/05/20210503_me_michael_lewis_the_premonition_is_a_sweeping_indictment_of_the_cdc.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=443&p=3&story=991570372&ft=nprml&f=991570372","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1992993680-417d57.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=443&p=3&story=991570372&ft=nprml&f=991570372","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13896658/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2021/05/20210503_me_michael_lewis_the_premonition_is_a_sweeping_indictment_of_the_cdc.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1033&d=443&p=3&story=991570372&ft=nprml&f=991570372","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Much has been written about how the pandemic came to be, but not so well known are the details about how it was able to spread so quickly in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Author Michael Lewis has written a new book, \u003cem>The Premonition\u003c/em>, that fills in those blanks. And it is a sweeping indictment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis, also author of \u003cem>Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side \u003c/em>and \u003cem>The Big Short,\u003c/em> says a public health doctor in California named Charity Dean is one of the people who saw the real danger of the virus before the rest of the country did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13883590","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“No one should have to be as brave as Charity Dean was as a local public health officer. To do her job, she had to be brave in a way that brought tears to my eyes,” Lewis tell NPR. “And when I first met her, I realized I had a character because all over her house were like these Post-it notes reminding her to be brave, like … ‘courage is a muscle memory’ or ‘the tallest oak in the forest was once just a little nut.’ She had all these kind of inspirational things. And when you get into the story of what Charity Dean … had to do on the ground, your hair stands up on the back of your neck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis writes about how Dean tried and tried to get the state officials around her to look at the data and act to make sure the virus didn’t spread. She put it all on the line, her reputation, her job. And across the country, there was another group of doctors led by Carter Mescher trying to do the same thing at the federal level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was incredible to me that there was this kind of secret group of seven doctors—they called themselves the Wolverines—who were positioned in interesting places in and around the federal government, who had been together for the better part of 15 years and who had come together whenever there was a threat of a disease outbreak to help organize the country’s response,” Lewis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by 2020, the Trump administration had disbanded the pandemic response unit and these doctors were forced to go rogue. A mutual acquaintance put Charity Dean in touch with Carter Mescher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And Charity picked up all of Carter Mescher’s analysis. And she said it was like pouring water on a dying plant, that it was the first person she met who was thinking about this threat the way she was thinking about it,” Lewis says. “And so she’s very soon on the private calls. … Think of her as an actual battlefield commander. She’s in the war, in the trenches, as if she’s figured out in the course of her career in public health that there are no generals or the generals don’t understand how the battle’s fought. And she’s going to have to kind of organize the strategy on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13876716","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In January and February of 2020, hundreds of Americans in Wuhan, China, were flown back to the U.S. Considering how many people had died of COVID-19 in China at that point, it would have made sense to test those Americans who were coming back. But according to Lewis and his sources, then-CDC Director Robert Redfield refused to test them, saying it would amount to doing research on imprisoned persons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Redfield is a particularly egregious example, but he’s an expression of a much bigger problem. And if you just say, ‘Oh, it’s the Trump administration’ or ‘Oh, it’s Robert Redfield,’ you’re missing the bigger picture,” Lewis says. “And the bigger picture is we as a society have allowed institutions like the CDC to become very politicized. And this is a larger pattern in the U.S. government. More and more jobs being politicized, more and more people in these jobs being on shorter, tighter leashes. More the kind of person who ends up in the job being someone who is politically pleasing to whoever happens to be in the White House. And so … the conditions for Robert Redfield being in that job were created long ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13896659\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13896659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87.jpg\" alt=\"'The Premonition: A Pandemic Story' by Michael Lewis.\" width=\"780\" height=\"1185\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87-160x243.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/premonition_custom-433cde87cd8ef03af2d69255f4f21b7409e24d87-768x1167.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘The Premonition: A Pandemic Story’ by Michael Lewis. \u003ccite>(W. W. Norton & Co.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lewis says he reached out to the CDC for comment, but the CDC wouldn’t speak to him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So what I did was guerilla journalism,” he says. “I interviewed individuals who were willing to talk to me either on background or off the record. And a couple people were on the record. But the CDC itself, I was told would not—didn’t want to talk to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lewis’ reporting, the CDC basically had two positions on the pandemic early on. Early on, it was that there was nothing to see here—that this is not a big deal. It’s being overblown. And then there was this very quick pivot when it started spreading in the U.S. and the position became, ‘It’s too late and there’s nothing we can do.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13879415","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Charity Dean said the great shame of their behavior was they waited so long that we were never in a position to contain it,” Lewis says. “They pretended it wasn’t important until it was too late. That it could have been contained the way it was contained, say, by Australia. There were things we could do [if] they’d been more aggressive right up front. Many, many thousands of Americans would be alive today who are not.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Lewis, the tragedy that became the American coronavirus pandemic was a perfect storm of the reaction of the president at the time, Donald Trump, the long history of politicization of the CDC, and the lack of a public health care system all coming together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think all my characters would say that because of the way we fail to govern ourselves, the way we fail to create a system, this would have been pretty bad under almost any administration and that it would have exposed the holes in the system and the weaknesses in the system—the absence of the system,” Lewis says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis followed these doctors inside and outside the federal government for many months as they tried to raise alarm bells and demand the kind of interventions that would have saved lives. But for him, Charity Dean stands apart for what she was willing to risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13874757","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You can’t believe what we are requiring of these people,” Lewis says. “And to me, there was something just unbelievably moving about this woman who had decided that even though she herself was full of fears for all kinds of good reasons, had willed herself to be brave for the sake of other people’s lives. And that had saved all these lives because she’d insisted on this trait in herself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a trait that the system not only didn’t reward, it punished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the pandemic, you saw this. Charity would tell you—and I think it’s true—that the pandemic has created a kind of selective pressure on our public health officers,” Lewis says. “And it’s removed the brave ones. The brave ones have all got their heads chopped off. So it’s sort of institutionalized a cowardice that we’re going to need to face up to, so that this business of punishing people who are doing their damnedest to try to save us from ourselves has got to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Michael+Lewis%27+%27The+Premonition%27+Is+A+Sweeping+Indictment+Of+The+CDC&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13896658/michael-lewis-the-premonition-is-a-sweeping-indictment-of-the-cdc","authors":["byline_arts_13896658"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_73"],"tags":["arts_1753","arts_9598"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13896666","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13890905":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13890905","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13890905","score":null,"sort":[1610060828000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-biden-cabinet-secretary-for-arts-advocates-are-hopeful","title":"A Biden Cabinet Secretary For Arts? Advocates Are Hopeful","publishDate":1610060828,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Biden Cabinet Secretary For Arts? Advocates Are Hopeful | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Arts and culture make up a huge, \u003ca href=\"https://www.arts.gov/about/news/2020/during-economic-highs-and-lows-arts-are-key-segment-us-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$877 billion industry that generates more than five million jobs across the country\u003c/a>. But the amount of federal funding for the arts is tiny when compared with smaller industries like agriculture—so what are arts organizations hoping for under the Biden administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Endowment for the Arts gives grants to organizations across the country—from big ones like Lincoln Center and NPR to small ones like the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture. “West Texas Wichita Falls. We’re not in Kansas,” says executive director Margie Reese, who adds that her group used one of their NEA grants to commission regional artists to make murals in economically distressed areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vernon, Texas, 25 year old Selena Mize painted musician and native son, the late Roy Orbison. It was a name Mize didn’t know—until Reese played her one of his songs, “Pretty Woman.” [aside postid='arts_13890625']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first I didn’t know that was Roy Orbison,” Mize laughs. “I thought it was Elvis Presley.” She says growing up she heard both singers while listening to music with her father and grandparents. Her mural shows Orbison with his trademark dark sunglasses, playing his guitar. She says the attention she got for the work was life-changing. “The community was very excited and open about it, and it’s just something I would never forget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bright, sunshiny mural is bringing pride back to Vernon, Texas,” Reese says. “The power of visual arts to bring a community back to life—this is what our attempt was with that mural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to government support of the arts, Reese is a veteran, having worked in the cultural affairs departments in Dallas and Los Angeles. She’s seen presidents and NEA chairs come and go. “When you have a change in administration and a shift in philosophy about arts funding,” she says, “the entire field begins to worry about what’s going to happen, how is this change going to affect us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Steady” is the word Reese uses to describe federal arts funding under President Trump. Even though each of his budgets proposed eliminating the arts and humanities endowments—as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Services—Congress rejected the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of love for libraries and for museums inside the Beltway,” says Crosby Kemper, who was the Trump administration’s pick to head the IMLS. Like the endowments, the Institute distributes grants, conducts research and helps shape policies that affect museums and libraries. Even though Republicans often talk about cutting funding for the arts, Kemper points out that all three budgets have increased slightly over the last three years: “I think you have to look at what actually happens, and what actually happens for the IMLS, the NEA and the NEH is they have a lot of support in the political world—and including inside the administration.” [aside postid='arts_13890207']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for actor Kal Penn, Trump’s rhetoric has been damaging to the arts. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102859368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penn was appointed by President Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities\u003c/a>, an advisory group founded in 1982. He had planned to stay on, but after Trump’s handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, \u003ca href=\"https://news.artnet.com/art-world/resignation-arts-committee-trump-1056158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he and everyone else on the committee resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities was then never relaunched under the Trump administration, just to show you that it really wasn’t a priority at all,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penn says he wants to see the Biden administration give the Endowments an “astronomical increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important now more than ever to be bold,” he says, noting that the arts benefit education, innovation, mental and emotional health. Plus, he says, it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you say, okay, well, why did you spend all this money to save this theater—yes, you’re saving the theater, and maybe you’re saving the 500 jobs that the theater provides for the local community, but you’re also then saving the restaurants that people go to the night of the show,” he says. “You’re saving the hotels that the visiting artists stay at. You’re saving, you know, the parking facility. And it may sound like very little, but when you start to multiply that by the numbers of businesses like this that exist around the country, you can see why investing in the arts really makes economic sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts released a report that said the arts contributed 4.5 percent to the country’s GDP in 2017. That’s more than agriculture and transportation. Arts advocate Charles Segars, head of the Ovation TV network, says it’s time for the arts to be taken just as seriously by the White House, by creating a cabinet level Secretary of Arts and Culture. [aside postid='arts_13888399']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It centralizes, in the positive sense of the word, all of the leverage of the United States government. Remember, you have arts pockets throughout the Department of State, Department of Defense. Even Transportation and Agriculture has a taste of that, of arts programs that they help support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segars says the Cabinet-level position would also handle intellectual property rights and exports. Years ago, music producer Quincy Jones tried to get Obama to create a Secretary of Arts; it never happened, but Segars says he thinks it’s a realistic goal. “I think it’s going to take time,” he says, “but we all have to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby Kemper of the IMLS says he can’t predict what the next administration will do, but he thinks Biden’s personality points in that direction. “I’d say the first and most important thing is that he’s a great lover of Irish poetry and therefore clearly a civilized man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden transition team did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Rose Friedman, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+Biden+Cabinet+Secretary+For+Arts%3F+Advocates+Are+Hopeful&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The arts employ nearly five million people in America. After Trump's mixed record of support, will anything change under Biden?","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019680,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":1108},"headData":{"title":"A Biden Cabinet Secretary For Arts? Advocates Are Hopeful | KQED","description":"The arts employ nearly five million people in America. 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But the amount of federal funding for the arts is tiny when compared with smaller industries like agriculture—so what are arts organizations hoping for under the Biden administration?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Endowment for the Arts gives grants to organizations across the country—from big ones like Lincoln Center and NPR to small ones like the Wichita Falls Alliance for Arts and Culture. “West Texas Wichita Falls. We’re not in Kansas,” says executive director Margie Reese, who adds that her group used one of their NEA grants to commission regional artists to make murals in economically distressed areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Vernon, Texas, 25 year old Selena Mize painted musician and native son, the late Roy Orbison. It was a name Mize didn’t know—until Reese played her one of his songs, “Pretty Woman.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13890625","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first I didn’t know that was Roy Orbison,” Mize laughs. “I thought it was Elvis Presley.” She says growing up she heard both singers while listening to music with her father and grandparents. Her mural shows Orbison with his trademark dark sunglasses, playing his guitar. She says the attention she got for the work was life-changing. “The community was very excited and open about it, and it’s just something I would never forget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bright, sunshiny mural is bringing pride back to Vernon, Texas,” Reese says. “The power of visual arts to bring a community back to life—this is what our attempt was with that mural.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to government support of the arts, Reese is a veteran, having worked in the cultural affairs departments in Dallas and Los Angeles. She’s seen presidents and NEA chairs come and go. “When you have a change in administration and a shift in philosophy about arts funding,” she says, “the entire field begins to worry about what’s going to happen, how is this change going to affect us?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Steady” is the word Reese uses to describe federal arts funding under President Trump. Even though each of his budgets proposed eliminating the arts and humanities endowments—as well as the Institute of Museum and Library Services—Congress rejected the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of love for libraries and for museums inside the Beltway,” says Crosby Kemper, who was the Trump administration’s pick to head the IMLS. Like the endowments, the Institute distributes grants, conducts research and helps shape policies that affect museums and libraries. Even though Republicans often talk about cutting funding for the arts, Kemper points out that all three budgets have increased slightly over the last three years: “I think you have to look at what actually happens, and what actually happens for the IMLS, the NEA and the NEH is they have a lot of support in the political world—and including inside the administration.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13890207","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for actor Kal Penn, Trump’s rhetoric has been damaging to the arts. \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102859368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Penn was appointed by President Obama to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities\u003c/a>, an advisory group founded in 1982. He had planned to stay on, but after Trump’s handling of the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, \u003ca href=\"https://news.artnet.com/art-world/resignation-arts-committee-trump-1056158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he and everyone else on the committee resigned\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities was then never relaunched under the Trump administration, just to show you that it really wasn’t a priority at all,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Penn says he wants to see the Biden administration give the Endowments an “astronomical increase.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important now more than ever to be bold,” he says, noting that the arts benefit education, innovation, mental and emotional health. Plus, he says, it’s a good investment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you say, okay, well, why did you spend all this money to save this theater—yes, you’re saving the theater, and maybe you’re saving the 500 jobs that the theater provides for the local community, but you’re also then saving the restaurants that people go to the night of the show,” he says. “You’re saving the hotels that the visiting artists stay at. You’re saving, you know, the parking facility. And it may sound like very little, but when you start to multiply that by the numbers of businesses like this that exist around the country, you can see why investing in the arts really makes economic sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts released a report that said the arts contributed 4.5 percent to the country’s GDP in 2017. That’s more than agriculture and transportation. Arts advocate Charles Segars, head of the Ovation TV network, says it’s time for the arts to be taken just as seriously by the White House, by creating a cabinet level Secretary of Arts and Culture. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"arts_13888399","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It centralizes, in the positive sense of the word, all of the leverage of the United States government. Remember, you have arts pockets throughout the Department of State, Department of Defense. Even Transportation and Agriculture has a taste of that, of arts programs that they help support.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segars says the Cabinet-level position would also handle intellectual property rights and exports. Years ago, music producer Quincy Jones tried to get Obama to create a Secretary of Arts; it never happened, but Segars says he thinks it’s a realistic goal. “I think it’s going to take time,” he says, “but we all have to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crosby Kemper of the IMLS says he can’t predict what the next administration will do, but he thinks Biden’s personality points in that direction. “I’d say the first and most important thing is that he’s a great lover of Irish poetry and therefore clearly a civilized man.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden transition team did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited for radio by Rose Friedman, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=A+Biden+Cabinet+Secretary+For+Arts%3F+Advocates+Are+Hopeful&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13890905/a-biden-cabinet-secretary-for-arts-advocates-are-hopeful","authors":["byline_arts_13890905"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1753","arts_7072","arts_1730"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13890906","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13888755":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13888755","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13888755","score":null,"sort":[1604357592000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"karens-saving-democracy-and-other-surprises-from-the-nyt-election-polls","title":"‘Karens Saving Democracy’ and Other Surprises From the ‘NYT’ Election Polls","publishDate":1604357592,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Karens Saving Democracy’ and Other Surprises From the ‘NYT’ Election Polls | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any more dramatic for women named Karen… On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/briefing/the-2020-vote-preferences-of-102-common-first-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> released\u003c/a> the results from polls it’s been conducting in 18 battleground states, alongside New York’s Siena College. 17,000 voters with 102 common names were polled, and the results draw parallels between voter trends and their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right! Your first name, it turns out, might dictate who you vote for. In one big reveal, the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em> made this handy graph showing who the 20 most popular names (10 male, 10 female) say they are most likely to vote for in the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-800x633.png\" alt=\"A chart tallying presidential choice, based on the first name of the voter, according to polls conducted by 'The New York Times' and Siena College. \" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-800x633.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-160x127.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-768x608.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM.png 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential choice by first name, according to polls conducted by ‘The New York Times’ and Siena College.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the internet’s first thought was related to those Karen results—60% voting for Biden, 40% for Trump. It also upended the idea that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13882681/we-all-know-a-karen-when-we-see-one-now-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">male Karens should probably be called Kevin\u003c/a>. (Looks like we’re switching to Richard now.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/MattDoyle76/status/1323273466662047745\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stgrump/status/1323283260294623234\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/franklinleonard/status/1323276806691131393\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karen and Richard silliness aside, some other results from the polls were genuinely fascinating. Here are the major takeaways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women are overwhelmingly voting for Biden\u003c/strong>, while men are evenly split between the presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>74% of Sarahs are voting for Biden, while 67% of Janets are voting for Trump.\u003c/strong> Age is likely the reason—the name Sarah is most common for women under 45, while Janets tend to be seniors. Biden is, according to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>, “winning by a landslide among younger voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>74% of Jasons and 67% of Brians are voting for Trump\u003c/strong>—and the reason is surprising. According to the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em>: “Two-syllable boys’ names ending with N were especially popular among younger parents during the 1970s and 1980s. Young parents are more likely to be working class, and an important part of Trump’s base has been white working-class voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>63% of Anthonys and Marias are voting for Biden.\u003c/strong> This is related to two main factors. The first is that a majority of Latinx voters are supporting Biden over Trump. The second is Biden’s popularity with Catholics—51% back him according to Pew Research. (This is also why he has the support of a whopping 76% of Patricks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Debras support Trump and Deborahs like Biden.\u003c/strong> Class is a factor here too. Debra tends to be the more popular spelling for younger parents, while Deborah is more commonly favored by “older parents with bachelor’s degrees, especially in the Northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>78% of Donalds plan to vote for Trump\u003c/strong>. This is partly because the age of most Donalds skews older—the name peaked in popularity in 1934. But remarkably, it’s also, according to the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em>, because “research has shown that people are drawn to their own names.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josephs are evenly split between the two candidates.\u003c/strong> Meaning Biden’s first name is not influencing voters the way Trump’s is. No one seems to have a definitive answer for why this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>’ has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/briefing/the-2020-vote-preferences-of-102-common-first-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searchable table\u003c/a> with all 102 names, so you can check and see if your political leanings line up with your namesakes. \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> has requested that readers “not make too much of small differences between any two names, given the sample sizes.” If nothing else, it’s a fun way to pass the time until this hellish week is over?\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What do our first names have to do with our voting habits? A lot, according to new research by the Times and Siena College.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019897,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":611},"headData":{"title":"‘Karens Saving Democracy’ and Other Surprises From the ‘NYT’ Election Polls | KQED","description":"What do our first names have to do with our voting habits? A lot, according to new research by the Times and Siena College.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13888755/karens-saving-democracy-and-other-surprises-from-the-nyt-election-polls","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any more dramatic for women named Karen… On Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/briefing/the-2020-vote-preferences-of-102-common-first-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> released\u003c/a> the results from polls it’s been conducting in 18 battleground states, alongside New York’s Siena College. 17,000 voters with 102 common names were polled, and the results draw parallels between voter trends and their first names.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right! Your first name, it turns out, might dictate who you vote for. In one big reveal, the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em> made this handy graph showing who the 20 most popular names (10 male, 10 female) say they are most likely to vote for in the 2020 election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888787\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888787\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-800x633.png\" alt=\"A chart tallying presidential choice, based on the first name of the voter, according to polls conducted by 'The New York Times' and Siena College. \" width=\"800\" height=\"633\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-800x633.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-160x127.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM-768x608.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-02-at-12.59.16-PM.png 863w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presidential choice by first name, according to polls conducted by ‘The New York Times’ and Siena College.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Naturally, the internet’s first thought was related to those Karen results—60% voting for Biden, 40% for Trump. It also upended the idea that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13882681/we-all-know-a-karen-when-we-see-one-now-we-need-to-talk-about-kevin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">male Karens should probably be called Kevin\u003c/a>. (Looks like we’re switching to Richard now.)\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1323273466662047745"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1323283260294623234"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1323276806691131393"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Karen and Richard silliness aside, some other results from the polls were genuinely fascinating. Here are the major takeaways:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Women are overwhelmingly voting for Biden\u003c/strong>, while men are evenly split between the presidential candidates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>74% of Sarahs are voting for Biden, while 67% of Janets are voting for Trump.\u003c/strong> Age is likely the reason—the name Sarah is most common for women under 45, while Janets tend to be seniors. Biden is, according to the \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>, “winning by a landslide among younger voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>74% of Jasons and 67% of Brians are voting for Trump\u003c/strong>—and the reason is surprising. According to the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em>: “Two-syllable boys’ names ending with N were especially popular among younger parents during the 1970s and 1980s. Young parents are more likely to be working class, and an important part of Trump’s base has been white working-class voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>63% of Anthonys and Marias are voting for Biden.\u003c/strong> This is related to two main factors. The first is that a majority of Latinx voters are supporting Biden over Trump. The second is Biden’s popularity with Catholics—51% back him according to Pew Research. (This is also why he has the support of a whopping 76% of Patricks.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Debras support Trump and Deborahs like Biden.\u003c/strong> Class is a factor here too. Debra tends to be the more popular spelling for younger parents, while Deborah is more commonly favored by “older parents with bachelor’s degrees, especially in the Northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>78% of Donalds plan to vote for Trump\u003c/strong>. This is partly because the age of most Donalds skews older—the name peaked in popularity in 1934. But remarkably, it’s also, according to the \u003cem>NYT\u003c/em>, because “research has shown that people are drawn to their own names.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Josephs are evenly split between the two candidates.\u003c/strong> Meaning Biden’s first name is not influencing voters the way Trump’s is. No one seems to have a definitive answer for why this is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>’ has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/briefing/the-2020-vote-preferences-of-102-common-first-names.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">searchable table\u003c/a> with all 102 names, so you can check and see if your political leanings line up with your namesakes. \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> has requested that readers “not make too much of small differences between any two names, given the sample sizes.” If nothing else, it’s a fun way to pass the time until this hellish week is over?\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13888755/karens-saving-democracy-and-other-surprises-from-the-nyt-election-polls","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_235"],"tags":["arts_1753","arts_10112","arts_7072","arts_11510","arts_6125"],"featImg":"arts_13888798","label":"arts"},"arts_13888768":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13888768","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13888768","score":null,"sort":[1604348607000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-sees-chilling-parallels-between-1968-and-today","title":"In 'Chicago 7,' Aaron Sorkin Sees Chilling Parallels Between 1968 and Today","publishDate":1604348607,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In ‘Chicago 7,’ Aaron Sorkin Sees Chilling Parallels Between 1968 and Today | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>Nineteen sixty eight was a year of upheaval in America. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and the country was embroiled in protests over the war in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer, several prominent anti-war activists, including Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden, were accused of crossing state lines and conspiring to start a riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial that followed transfixed the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Wing\u003c/em> creator Aaron Sorkin recreates the activists’ trial in his new Netflix film, \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81043755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Trial of the Chicago 7\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> He says this story is “shockingly, chillingly relevant”—and points to parallels between the unrest in Chicago in 1968 and the political divisions of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a photograph [of counter-protesters] from 1969, when the trial was starting,” Sorkin says. “Three of the signs that I saw said: ‘America, Love It or Leave It,’ ‘What About White Civil Rights?’ and ‘Lock Them Up.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorkin notes that those signs—and the broader demonization of the protesters—recalls President Trump’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought the film was plenty relevant last winter when we were making it. We didn’t need it to get more relevant, but it did,” Sorkin says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAaZIfeQzT0\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what made him want to tell the story of the Chicago Seven\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years ago, [\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/456833620/steven-spielberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Spielberg\u003c/a> told me] he wanted to make a movie about the Chicago Seven. And I said, “That’s a great idea. That would make a great movie. Count me in and sign me up!”And I walked out of his house, called my father, and asked him who the Chicago Seven were. I didn’t have any idea what Steven was talking about. I was just saying yes to working with Steven Spielberg the way literally any writer would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So then I had research to do, obviously. I read about a dozen good books on the subject, a number of them written by members of the Chicago Seven. And there’s a 21,000 page trial transcript. But the most critical part of the research was the time I got to spend with Tom Hayden, who was still alive at the time. … And he gave me an insight that I would not have been able to get from those books or from the transcript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why the film feels particularly relevant now \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When suddenly Donald Trump was at rallies, when a protester in the back would shout something and he’d be getting dragged out and Trump would start reminiscing about the good old days when we’d carry that guy out of here on a stretcher, and I’d like to punch him right in the face and beat the crap out of him. When protest was being demonized. Whether it was an athlete\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/05/871290906/nfl-on-kneeling-players-protests-we-were-wrong-commissioner-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> kneeling\u003c/a> during the national anthem, that’s what was going on that made Steven finally say, “Okay, the time to make this movie is now.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914512526/whats-next-for-breonna-taylor-s-family-and-the-movement-that-followed-her-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breonna Taylor \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/24/883050615/three-men-indicted-in-murder-of-ahmaud-arbery-killed-while-he-jogged-in-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a> and [the death of] \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/891516654/police-bodycam-video-provides-fuller-picture-of-george-floyds-fatal-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd\u003c/a>, the protests and protesters being met by, again, tear gas and nightsticks and calls from the government that they’re anti-American, that they’re anarchists, that they’re communists—when in fact, they’re patriots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On portraying Judge Julius Hoffman, who demonstrates disdain for the defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was awful—more awful than I made him just because I couldn’t show you five and a half months of trial. He was either in the tank for the prosecution or experiencing early senility or some combination of both. But most likely what it was, and you see this again today … was he felt that he was the guardian of the America of the ’50s or at least the America in his imagination, that the ’50s were a quieter, whiter time without all this crazy psychedelic music, and these kids and their long hair and the clothes protesting things that he thought he was the last line of defense against these guys, and he was going to put them away and teach them a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On a common criticism that his writing style is too idealistic \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honest to God, the thing that I think about the most is that I get to earn a living doing exactly what I love doing and what you’re talking about, those are pretty glamorous problems, that critics talk about me in a certain way. When I was writing my first play, \u003cem>A Few Good Men \u003c/em>on cocktail napkins at the bar I was working at, and you had told me that my problem was going to be the way critics talked about my writing, I would have hugged you and said, “Really? There’s going to be a day when I’m reviewed by somebody?” I know exactly what you’re talking about, but it’s been going on for a while, so I’m used to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether 2020 has made him less of an idealistic writer and thinker \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do like writing idealistically and optimistically. As an audience member I like cynical things, gritty things. I’m fine with things that don’t have a happy ending. But as a writer, I like writing the kinds of movies that made me want to write movies, and those were usually movies that put a lump in my throat, gave me a goosebump experience, just made me feel two inches taller after I had watched it. I like doing that. There have been a couple of exceptions along the way and there’ll probably be a couple of exceptions in my future. I like it when the orchestra comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about Trump-era politics for the screen \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve just, in the last week, passed on two different things that would involve the character of Donald Trump. … Believe me, screenwriters, playwrights, television writers, we’re going to be writing a lot about these last four years. But I predict that—\u003ca href=\"https://www.sho.com/the-comey-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Comey Rule\u003c/em>\u003c/a> notwithstanding—that you will seldom see [a fictionalized version of] Donald Trump as anything but an off-screen character. … Having him as a character in a story with real people is very difficult, because it’s implausible. It’s very hard to not make him like Alec Baldwin on \u003cem>SNL \u003c/em>because, as I say, he is implausible. Also, you can write about heroes and villains or anti-heroes like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/745949428/did-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-intend-to-deceive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Zuckerberg\u003c/a>, but there’s no such thing as an interesting character who doesn’t have a conscience. If you take Richard III’s conscience away from him, we’re not interested in that play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ann Marie Baldonado and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Chicago+7%2C%27+Aaron+Sorkin+Sees+Chilling+Parallels+Between+%2768+Summer+And+Today&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Sorkin's film captures the 1969 trial of anti-war activists who attended Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019898,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1222},"headData":{"title":"In 'Chicago 7,' Aaron Sorkin Sees Chilling Parallels Between 1968 and Today | KQED","description":"Sorkin's film captures the 1969 trial of anti-war activists who attended Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprImageCredit":"Niko Tavernise","nprByline":"Sam Sanders","nprImageAgency":"Netflix","nprStoryId":"930266991","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=930266991&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/2020/11/02/930266991/in-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-sees-chilling-parallels-between-68-summer-and-today?ft=nprml&f=930266991","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 02 Nov 2020 14:01:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:13:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 02 Nov 2020 13:40:19 -0500","nprAudio":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/11/20201102_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1137&d=2156&p=13&story=930266991&ft=nprml&f=930266991","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1930410390-fe16e4.m3u?orgId=427869011&topicId=1137&d=2156&p=13&story=930266991&ft=nprml&f=930266991","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13888768/in-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-sees-chilling-parallels-between-1968-and-today","audioUrl":"https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2020/11/20201102_fa_01.mp3?orgId=427869011&topicId=1137&d=2156&p=13&story=930266991&ft=nprml&f=930266991","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Nineteen sixty eight was a year of upheaval in America. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and the country was embroiled in protests over the war in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That summer, several prominent anti-war activists, including Abbie Hoffman and Tom Hayden, were accused of crossing state lines and conspiring to start a riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The trial that followed transfixed the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>West Wing\u003c/em> creator Aaron Sorkin recreates the activists’ trial in his new Netflix film, \u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/81043755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Trial of the Chicago 7\u003c/em>.\u003c/a> He says this story is “shockingly, chillingly relevant”—and points to parallels between the unrest in Chicago in 1968 and the political divisions of today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I saw a photograph [of counter-protesters] from 1969, when the trial was starting,” Sorkin says. “Three of the signs that I saw said: ‘America, Love It or Leave It,’ ‘What About White Civil Rights?’ and ‘Lock Them Up.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorkin notes that those signs—and the broader demonization of the protesters—recalls President Trump’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought the film was plenty relevant last winter when we were making it. We didn’t need it to get more relevant, but it did,” Sorkin says.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/OAaZIfeQzT0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/OAaZIfeQzT0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>Interview Highlights\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On what made him want to tell the story of the Chicago Seven\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fourteen years ago, [\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/tags/456833620/steven-spielberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steven Spielberg\u003c/a> told me] he wanted to make a movie about the Chicago Seven. And I said, “That’s a great idea. That would make a great movie. Count me in and sign me up!”And I walked out of his house, called my father, and asked him who the Chicago Seven were. I didn’t have any idea what Steven was talking about. I was just saying yes to working with Steven Spielberg the way literally any writer would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So then I had research to do, obviously. I read about a dozen good books on the subject, a number of them written by members of the Chicago Seven. And there’s a 21,000 page trial transcript. But the most critical part of the research was the time I got to spend with Tom Hayden, who was still alive at the time. … And he gave me an insight that I would not have been able to get from those books or from the transcript.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On why the film feels particularly relevant now \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When suddenly Donald Trump was at rallies, when a protester in the back would shout something and he’d be getting dragged out and Trump would start reminiscing about the good old days when we’d carry that guy out of here on a stretcher, and I’d like to punch him right in the face and beat the crap out of him. When protest was being demonized. Whether it was an athlete\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/05/871290906/nfl-on-kneeling-players-protests-we-were-wrong-commissioner-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> kneeling\u003c/a> during the national anthem, that’s what was going on that made Steven finally say, “Okay, the time to make this movie is now.” …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the shootings of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914512526/whats-next-for-breonna-taylor-s-family-and-the-movement-that-followed-her-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breonna Taylor \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/24/883050615/three-men-indicted-in-murder-of-ahmaud-arbery-killed-while-he-jogged-in-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a> and [the death of] \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/15/891516654/police-bodycam-video-provides-fuller-picture-of-george-floyds-fatal-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd\u003c/a>, the protests and protesters being met by, again, tear gas and nightsticks and calls from the government that they’re anti-American, that they’re anarchists, that they’re communists—when in fact, they’re patriots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On portraying Judge Julius Hoffman, who demonstrates disdain for the defendants\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was awful—more awful than I made him just because I couldn’t show you five and a half months of trial. He was either in the tank for the prosecution or experiencing early senility or some combination of both. But most likely what it was, and you see this again today … was he felt that he was the guardian of the America of the ’50s or at least the America in his imagination, that the ’50s were a quieter, whiter time without all this crazy psychedelic music, and these kids and their long hair and the clothes protesting things that he thought he was the last line of defense against these guys, and he was going to put them away and teach them a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On a common criticism that his writing style is too idealistic \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honest to God, the thing that I think about the most is that I get to earn a living doing exactly what I love doing and what you’re talking about, those are pretty glamorous problems, that critics talk about me in a certain way. When I was writing my first play, \u003cem>A Few Good Men \u003c/em>on cocktail napkins at the bar I was working at, and you had told me that my problem was going to be the way critics talked about my writing, I would have hugged you and said, “Really? There’s going to be a day when I’m reviewed by somebody?” I know exactly what you’re talking about, but it’s been going on for a while, so I’m used to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On whether 2020 has made him less of an idealistic writer and thinker \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do like writing idealistically and optimistically. As an audience member I like cynical things, gritty things. I’m fine with things that don’t have a happy ending. But as a writer, I like writing the kinds of movies that made me want to write movies, and those were usually movies that put a lump in my throat, gave me a goosebump experience, just made me feel two inches taller after I had watched it. I like doing that. There have been a couple of exceptions along the way and there’ll probably be a couple of exceptions in my future. I like it when the orchestra comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On writing about Trump-era politics for the screen \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve just, in the last week, passed on two different things that would involve the character of Donald Trump. … Believe me, screenwriters, playwrights, television writers, we’re going to be writing a lot about these last four years. But I predict that—\u003ca href=\"https://www.sho.com/the-comey-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Comey Rule\u003c/em>\u003c/a> notwithstanding—that you will seldom see [a fictionalized version of] Donald Trump as anything but an off-screen character. … Having him as a character in a story with real people is very difficult, because it’s implausible. It’s very hard to not make him like Alec Baldwin on \u003cem>SNL \u003c/em>because, as I say, he is implausible. Also, you can write about heroes and villains or anti-heroes like \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/28/745949428/did-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-intend-to-deceive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Zuckerberg\u003c/a>, but there’s no such thing as an interesting character who doesn’t have a conscience. If you take Richard III’s conscience away from him, we’re not interested in that play.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ann Marie Baldonado and Seth Kelley produced and edited this interview for broadcast. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=In+%27Chicago+7%2C%27+Aaron+Sorkin+Sees+Chilling+Parallels+Between+%2768+Summer+And+Today&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13888768/in-chicago-7-aaron-sorkin-sees-chilling-parallels-between-1968-and-today","authors":["byline_arts_13888768"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_9535","arts_11272","arts_1753","arts_977"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13888769","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13888677":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13888677","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13888677","score":null,"sort":[1604168108000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"as-famous-rappers-get-used-as-pawns-meet-the-black-men-doing-the-real-work","title":"As Famous Rappers Get Used as Pawns, Meet the Black Men Doing the Real Work","publishDate":1604168108,"format":"standard","headTitle":"As Famous Rappers Get Used as Pawns, Meet the Black Men Doing the Real Work | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>an, there sure are a number of Black men in the political arena looking like clowns these days. And as much as I enjoy a good laugh, I don’t think it’s really the time to be entertained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty big election happening right now in the United States. There are also international conversations and actions pushing changes in the way we’re policed, and there’s an ongoing global pandemic that has killed over one million people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do we need a breakdown of the meetings between \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/ice-cube-trump-partnership-429713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ice Cube\u003c/a> and President Trump’s camps? Why do we care about \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-fk-donald-trump-after-support-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 Cent’s flip-flopping political views\u003c/a>? Did we really need \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/diddy-starts-political-party-empower-194913724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diddy\u003c/a> to hop on the airwaves and announce he’s starting a new political party? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/arts/music/lil-wayne-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Wayne’s\u003c/a> support of Trump noteworthy? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/09/jeezy-joe-biden-kanye-west-1234578676/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Jeezy’s\u003c/a> support of Joe Biden a story? Why… \u003cem>is \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/03/kanye-west-california-ballot-vice-president-candidate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanye West\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella questions. At the top of my list: when it comes to creating change in our community, in this election cycle and beyond, what is the role of Black men? ‘Cause judging from these popular stories I’m seeing… it’s questionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13888699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth. \u003ccite>(Via \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ksj.events/\">Kola Shobo\u003c/a>/IG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast week I turned to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1318220298383028225?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media\u003c/a> in search of answers. I needed stories of Black men taking action to make this world a bit better, both through electoral politics and outside of the political structure. No, you don’t hear me: I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was refreshing to learn about Maryland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nealcarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Carter\u003c/a> and his Nu View Consulting organization, which focuses on getting African Americans living with disabilities politically engaged. Or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CameronWhitten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Whitten\u003c/a>, a Black man in Portland, Oregon who’s politically active; I’ve been following Black Lives Matter protests up there since the summer and he’s the first African American man involved that I’ve heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to be introduced to the education work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michaelsorrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sorrell\u003c/a> is doing in Texas, the organizing work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LamontLilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamont Lilly\u003c/a> is doing out of Durham, NC, and the work of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/codyrenard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Renard Richard,\u003c/a> who in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7KumWIxyTk&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview\u003c/a> from earlier this year explains how he’s fighting for equal rights in the world of Broadway theatre in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/3HtaCBegNWg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, people suggested I check out the work of Tur-Ha Ak, whose work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> I’ve mentioned in my writing before. The Oakland group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtaCBegNWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black London\u003c/a> put out an admonition to vote and claim representation for the people in their video for “Power.” And I was asked to look at the work of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellablackpod.com/pbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a>, which I’ve also noted in past columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partially inspired by People’s Breakfast Oakland, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/coach_jmcgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan McGowan\u003c/a> told me about co-founding the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sacneighbor916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sacramento Neighbor Project\u003c/a>, which focuses on community-based responses to police violence and using mutual aid to get resources to those in need. Without talking to McGowan, I might not have known about \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/father-found-hanged-sacramento-park-120000333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie Brown\u003c/a>, an African American man who has been on life support after being found hanging from a basketball hoop in a Sacramento park last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might a bit more important than what \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2020/09/ti-interview-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.I\u003c/a>. has to say about politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it’s not \u003ci>sexy\u003c/i> enough? I’m not a media strategist or anything, but I’m starting to think big publications are more concerned with generating revenue from click-based advertising than actually informing the masses about critical issues during a time when so much is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZEHNSC2Q0\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>K, here’s a story that might be more enticing: the former drug kingpin-turned-author, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2m3nTMjVZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Reed\u003c/a>, who was granted clemency by President Obama, is voting for the first time and politically organizing in his community of East Oakland. Where’s the news on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed is supporting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Black Men of The Bay Area\u003c/a> to engage people in voter education, registration and voting. Neale Clunie, a representative for the organization, tells me they’re part of the “\u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/event/we-ride-we-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Ride, We Vote\u003c/a>” biking and voting event on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 pm in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clunie also tells me that his organization is teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"https://ncbw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Coalition of 100 Black Women\u003c/a>. “Black women are the cornerstone of the Democratic party; they generally have a better turnout,” says Clunie. He’s right: according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/18/men-and-women-in-the-u-s-continue-to-differ-in-voter-turnout-rate-party-identification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research\u003c/a>, eligible Black women voters have shown up more readily than Black men for decades. (To be fair, women vote in larger numbers than men in general.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the power of Black women voters, and Pastor Michael McBride, of \u003ca href=\"https://thewayberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Way Christian Center in Berkeley,\u003c/a> says that doesn’t have to negatively impact Black men when it comes to voting or community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men don’t have to shrink or cower or disappear for women to be strong,” Pastor McBride tells me. “We just have to be willing and humble. Coordination with all of our community is happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(McBride, who was on the move when we talked, mistakenly thought I said my name was “Twin” when I introduced myself as Pen. He explained that Twin is someone he’s working with in order to quell a festering beef after a recent shooting—evidence of Pastor McBride’s community involvement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride then said he’s on the verge of embarking on a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_dCXUBmYo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black bus tour\u003c/a>” through the United States’ southeast region. He and a team of folks aim to hit 14 cities—Orlando, Atlanta and Raleigh, to name a few—over a span of 10 days to assist people in getting to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride says the role of Black men right now is “to be what we’ve always been when we’ve been at our best.” Black men are freedom fighters, truth tellers and protectors of our community, he says. “We need to lead with a healthy sense of strength and humility to understand the complexity of the issues that have impacted all of the members of the community,” says McBride. “Leadership doesn’t always require to be out in front. It’s about discerning the moment. The plight of Black people requires a lot more coordination in order to beat white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael McBride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>long with the prevalence of Black male entertainers’ tone-deaf participation in politics, the popular stories of actual Black male politicians have been disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Kentucky’s\u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2020/10/21/something-fishy-about-daniel-cameron-breonna-taylor-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Attorney General Daniel Cameron \u003c/a>blocking the process of holding the cops who killed Breonna Taylor accountable is disgusting. The highly publicized extramarital affair of former Florida Governor Candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/andrew-gillum-bisexual/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Gillium\u003c/a> makes me ask what the media’s aim is. And here in the Bay Area, I’ve been following the unearthing of details around front-running Vallejo mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/10/13/domestic-violence-bordering-on-torture-records-reveal-years-of-allegations-against-vallejo-councilmember/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakeem Brown\u003c/a> and his history of domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, again, I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these benevolent stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not giving anyone a pass as a “good guy.” I’m not naive enough to think that in this society any man has clean hands—or any human, for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there should be more appreciation for someone like Colin Kaepernick, who is using his popularity to back \u003ca href=\"https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abolition For The People\u003c/a>, a publication rooted in challenging America’s prison-industrial complex. Or acclaimed poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-05/45-lies-trump-poetry-project-rappers-broadway-daveed-diggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bamuthi Joseph\u003c/a>, who’s using his platform to let other lyricists express themselves about the lies our current president has told in a project he calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/45lies2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 Lies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hell, even \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Oq56pAdXqi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Tyson\u003c/a>, who recently had a conversation with Lil Boosie about his derogatory comments on the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black male celebrities can do so much by simply not playing into the media’s need to feed off of clickbait. I’m not saying don’t get involved in politics, this isn’t a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHuaOIvRLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut up and dribble\u003c/a>” situation. (Or even a shut up and “riddle” situation, for the rappers in the room.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbershop-style discussions with former President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-stopping-lebron-james-175511212.html\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> are cool and all, but the best approach is using your platform to push the ideas of lesser-known people who, though not always “newsworthy,” have been steeped in the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/LMJvApfx_Ik\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>ith the reintroduction of the term “super predator” into the popular lexicon, this week’s research proved to be the reminder I needed, just a note that we’re much more than what popular media depicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a Black man, who is also a member of “the media,” it’s my job to do all that I can to make sure we push for more of what\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-apology-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> attempted to do a few weeks ago with its public apology for its decades worth of misrepresenting Black and brown urban communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, there is a lot going on in the world: I haven’t even mentioned global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this had to be written, if not then we’d risk falling back down a path that could lead to the type of storytelling that supported the incarceration of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/\">Central Park Five\u003c/a> and the passing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1994 Crime Bill\u003c/a>—a bill that adversely impacted a generation of Black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> generation. There were some entertainers who made so-called “gangsta rap” music and leveraged the concept of being a “super predator” for their own financial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of them are now being postured as “political leaders.” Go figure.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"This election, I wanted to learn who's engaged in true service instead of political posturing. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705019904,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1721},"headData":{"title":"As Famous Rappers Get Used as Pawns, Meet the Black Men Doing the Real Work | KQED","description":"This election, I wanted to learn who's engaged in true service instead of political posturing. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Commentary","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/artscommentary","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","path":"/arts/13888677/as-famous-rappers-get-used-as-pawns-meet-the-black-men-doing-the-real-work","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>an, there sure are a number of Black men in the political arena looking like clowns these days. And as much as I enjoy a good laugh, I don’t think it’s really the time to be entertained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a pretty big election happening right now in the United States. There are also international conversations and actions pushing changes in the way we’re policed, and there’s an ongoing global pandemic that has killed over one million people worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why do we need a breakdown of the meetings between \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/15/ice-cube-trump-partnership-429713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ice Cube\u003c/a> and President Trump’s camps? Why do we care about \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-fk-donald-trump-after-support-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">50 Cent’s flip-flopping political views\u003c/a>? Did we really need \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/diddy-starts-political-party-empower-194913724.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diddy\u003c/a> to hop on the airwaves and announce he’s starting a new political party? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/arts/music/lil-wayne-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Wayne’s\u003c/a> support of Trump noteworthy? Why is \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/09/jeezy-joe-biden-kanye-west-1234578676/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Jeezy’s\u003c/a> support of Joe Biden a story? Why… \u003cem>is \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tmz.com/2020/10/03/kanye-west-california-ballot-vice-president-candidate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kanye West\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hella questions. At the top of my list: when it comes to creating change in our community, in this election cycle and beyond, what is the role of Black men? ‘Cause judging from these popular stories I’m seeing… it’s questionable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 499px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13888699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n.jpg 499w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/123024745_134014161795446_9026917441314080281_n-160x160.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth. \u003ccite>(Via \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ksj.events/\">Kola Shobo\u003c/a>/IG)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ast week I turned to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1318220298383028225?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media\u003c/a> in search of answers. I needed stories of Black men taking action to make this world a bit better, both through electoral politics and outside of the political structure. No, you don’t hear me: I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it was refreshing to learn about Maryland’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/nealcarter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neal Carter\u003c/a> and his Nu View Consulting organization, which focuses on getting African Americans living with disabilities politically engaged. Or \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CameronWhitten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cameron Whitten\u003c/a>, a Black man in Portland, Oregon who’s politically active; I’ve been following Black Lives Matter protests up there since the summer and he’s the first African American man involved that I’ve heard of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I needed to be introduced to the education work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/michaelsorrell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sorrell\u003c/a> is doing in Texas, the organizing work \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/LamontLilly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lamont Lilly\u003c/a> is doing out of Durham, NC, and the work of \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/codyrenard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cody Renard Richard,\u003c/a> who in \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7KumWIxyTk&feature=emb_title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this interview\u003c/a> from earlier this year explains how he’s fighting for equal rights in the world of Broadway theatre in New York.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/3HtaCBegNWg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/3HtaCBegNWg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Locally, people suggested I check out the work of Tur-Ha Ak, whose work with \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Anti Police-Terror Project\u003c/a> I’ve mentioned in my writing before. The Oakland group \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HtaCBegNWg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black London\u003c/a> put out an admonition to vote and claim representation for the people in their video for “Power.” And I was asked to look at the work of \u003ca href=\"https://www.hellablackpod.com/pbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">People’s Breakfast Oakland\u003c/a>, which I’ve also noted in past columns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Partially inspired by People’s Breakfast Oakland, Sacramento’s \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/coach_jmcgowan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordan McGowan\u003c/a> told me about co-founding the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sacneighbor916\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sacramento Neighbor Project\u003c/a>, which focuses on community-based responses to police violence and using mutual aid to get resources to those in need. Without talking to McGowan, I might not have known about \u003ca href=\"https://news.yahoo.com/father-found-hanged-sacramento-park-120000333.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willie Brown\u003c/a>, an African American man who has been on life support after being found hanging from a basketball hoop in a Sacramento park last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That might a bit more important than what \u003ca href=\"https://www.complex.com/music/2020/09/ti-interview-ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T.I\u003c/a>. has to say about politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it’s not \u003ci>sexy\u003c/i> enough? I’m not a media strategist or anything, but I’m starting to think big publications are more concerned with generating revenue from click-based advertising than actually informing the masses about critical issues during a time when so much is at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, why are we listening to entertainers?\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/1NZEHNSC2Q0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/1NZEHNSC2Q0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>K, here’s a story that might be more enticing: the former drug kingpin-turned-author, Oakland’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG2m3nTMjVZ/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Reed\u003c/a>, who was granted clemency by President Obama, is voting for the first time and politically organizing in his community of East Oakland. Where’s the news on that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reed is supporting the organization \u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 Black Men of The Bay Area\u003c/a> to engage people in voter education, registration and voting. Neale Clunie, a representative for the organization, tells me they’re part of the “\u003ca href=\"https://100blackmenba.org/event/we-ride-we-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">We Ride, We Vote\u003c/a>” biking and voting event on Sunday, Nov. 1, from 1-5 pm in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clunie also tells me that his organization is teaming up with the \u003ca href=\"https://ncbw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Coalition of 100 Black Women\u003c/a>. “Black women are the cornerstone of the Democratic party; they generally have a better turnout,” says Clunie. He’s right: according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/18/men-and-women-in-the-u-s-continue-to-differ-in-voter-turnout-rate-party-identification/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research\u003c/a>, eligible Black women voters have shown up more readily than Black men for decades. (To be fair, women vote in larger numbers than men in general.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written about the power of Black women voters, and Pastor Michael McBride, of \u003ca href=\"https://thewayberkeley.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Way Christian Center in Berkeley,\u003c/a> says that doesn’t have to negatively impact Black men when it comes to voting or community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Men don’t have to shrink or cower or disappear for women to be strong,” Pastor McBride tells me. “We just have to be willing and humble. Coordination with all of our community is happening at the same time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(McBride, who was on the move when we talked, mistakenly thought I said my name was “Twin” when I introduced myself as Pen. He explained that Twin is someone he’s working with in order to quell a festering beef after a recent shooting—evidence of Pastor McBride’s community involvement.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride then said he’s on the verge of embarking on a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CG_dCXUBmYo/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black bus tour\u003c/a>” through the United States’ southeast region. He and a team of folks aim to hit 14 cities—Orlando, Atlanta and Raleigh, to name a few—over a span of 10 days to assist people in getting to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McBride says the role of Black men right now is “to be what we’ve always been when we’ve been at our best.” Black men are freedom fighters, truth tellers and protectors of our community, he says. “We need to lead with a healthy sense of strength and humility to understand the complexity of the issues that have impacted all of the members of the community,” says McBride. “Leadership doesn’t always require to be out in front. It’s about discerning the moment. The plight of Black people requires a lot more coordination in order to beat white supremacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13888697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13888697\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/image-asset.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Michael McBride, center, leads a 2017 march in Berkeley to protest white supremacists. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Michael McBride)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>long with the prevalence of Black male entertainers’ tone-deaf participation in politics, the popular stories of actual Black male politicians have been disheartening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story of Kentucky’s\u003ca href=\"https://thegrio.com/2020/10/21/something-fishy-about-daniel-cameron-breonna-taylor-case/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Attorney General Daniel Cameron \u003c/a>blocking the process of holding the cops who killed Breonna Taylor accountable is disgusting. The highly publicized extramarital affair of former Florida Governor Candidate \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/politics/andrew-gillum-bisexual/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Gillium\u003c/a> makes me ask what the media’s aim is. And here in the Bay Area, I’ve been following the unearthing of details around front-running Vallejo mayoral candidate \u003ca href=\"https://openvallejo.org/2020/10/13/domestic-violence-bordering-on-torture-records-reveal-years-of-allegations-against-vallejo-councilmember/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakeem Brown\u003c/a> and his history of domestic abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, again, I \u003ci>needed\u003c/i> these benevolent stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not giving anyone a pass as a “good guy.” I’m not naive enough to think that in this society any man has clean hands—or any human, for that matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there should be more appreciation for someone like Colin Kaepernick, who is using his popularity to back \u003ca href=\"https://level.medium.com/abolition-for-the-people-397ef29e3ca5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abolition For The People\u003c/a>, a publication rooted in challenging America’s prison-industrial complex. Or acclaimed poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-10-05/45-lies-trump-poetry-project-rappers-broadway-daveed-diggs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bamuthi Joseph\u003c/a>, who’s using his platform to let other lyricists express themselves about the lies our current president has told in a project he calls \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/45lies2020/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 Lies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hell, even \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/Oq56pAdXqi8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Tyson\u003c/a>, who recently had a conversation with Lil Boosie about his derogatory comments on the LGBTQ community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black male celebrities can do so much by simply not playing into the media’s need to feed off of clickbait. I’m not saying don’t get involved in politics, this isn’t a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHuaOIvRLY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut up and dribble\u003c/a>” situation. (Or even a shut up and “riddle” situation, for the rappers in the room.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barbershop-style discussions with former President \u003ca href=\"https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/barack-obama-stopping-lebron-james-175511212.html\">Barack Obama\u003c/a> are cool and all, but the best approach is using your platform to push the ideas of lesser-known people who, though not always “newsworthy,” have been steeped in the work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/LMJvApfx_Ik'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/LMJvApfx_Ik'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>ith the reintroduction of the term “super predator” into the popular lexicon, this week’s research proved to be the reminder I needed, just a note that we’re much more than what popular media depicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as a Black man, who is also a member of “the media,” it’s my job to do all that I can to make sure we push for more of what\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-27/los-angeles-times-apology-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> The Los Angeles Times\u003c/a> attempted to do a few weeks ago with its public apology for its decades worth of misrepresenting Black and brown urban communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Again, there is a lot going on in the world: I haven’t even mentioned global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this had to be written, if not then we’d risk falling back down a path that could lead to the type of storytelling that supported the incarceration of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/19/what-trump-has-said-central-park-five/1501321001/\">Central Park Five\u003c/a> and the passing of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/20/18677998/joe-biden-1994-crime-bill-law-mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1994 Crime Bill\u003c/a>—a bill that adversely impacted a generation of Black men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, not the \u003cem>entire\u003c/em> generation. There were some entertainers who made so-called “gangsta rap” music and leveraged the concept of being a “super predator” for their own financial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few of them are now being postured as “political leaders.” Go figure.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13888677/as-famous-rappers-get-used-as-pawns-meet-the-black-men-doing-the-real-work","authors":["11491"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835","arts_69"],"tags":["arts_1331","arts_2767","arts_1753","arts_10342","arts_4949","arts_10278","arts_831","arts_7072","arts_2291","arts_1143"],"featImg":"arts_13888695","label":"source_arts_13888677"},"arts_13887706":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887706","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887706","score":null,"sort":[1602270070000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"totally-under-control-and-time-are-two-very-2020-documentaries","title":"'Totally Under Control' and 'Time' are Two Very 2020 Documentaries","publishDate":1602270070,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Totally Under Control’ and ‘Time’ are Two Very 2020 Documentaries | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":137,"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>I doubt I’m alone when I say that this year has been a blur: Sometimes it feels like only yesterday that I was going to the office or heading outside without a mask, and sometimes it feels as though an eternity has passed. This past week I watched two absorbing new documentaries that both seem to bend and distort our sense of the passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, which is actually called \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, spans more than two decades. The other one, titled \u003cem>Totally Under Control,\u003c/em> focuses on the very moment we’re living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Totally Under Control\u003c/em> is the latest documentary from the prolific Alex Gibney, who directed it with Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan. It’s a cool but damning account of our government’s response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 outbreak \u003c/a>that crams several months’ worth of increasingly grim headlines into two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTzgf9i4vw\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s as persuasive and well researched as you’d expect from Gibney, the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395579453/church-of-scientology-calls-new-hbo-documentary-bigoted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Going Clear \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room\u003c/em>, it might feel redundant to anyone who’s been glued to the news lately. But it’s still bracing to see the details laid out as forcefully and with such measured anger as they are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using socially distanced camera setups to ensure everyone’s safety, the filmmakers sat down with journalists, doctors, health experts and government officials. Nearly all of them agree that a deadly airborne virus capable of asymptomatic transmission would always have posed a formidable threat in the U.S. But they also agree it was the president’s relentless downplaying of that threat and his disdain for science that led us to where we are now, with a devastated economy and more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/22/911934489/enormous-and-tragic-u-s-has-lost-more-than-200-000-people-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000 Americans dead.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie focuses on several key areas where efforts to fight the virus broke down, starting with the technical flaws and bureaucratic logjams, involving the CDC and the FDA, that frustrated early attempts at mass testing. This was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820795727/can-the-u-s-crowdsource-its-way-out-of-a-mask-shortage-no-but-it-still-helps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortages of protective equipment\u003c/a> for frontline healthcare workers, not helped by the Trump administration’s refusal to intervene on the states’ behalf. And then of course there’s the ongoing nationwide debate over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">face coverings\u003c/a>; a medical supply executive who says he voted for Trump in 2016 expresses shock that wearing a mask in a pandemic could have become so intensely politicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut of information presented here is dizzying but lucid. We hear about the sidelining of knowledgeable scientists like the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier and federal vaccine expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/06/920985099/government-scientist-tops-up-whistle-blower-complaint-and-quits-nih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rick Bright \u003c/a>when they tried to sound the alarm. And then there’s the irony that Trump himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/03/919898777/timeline-what-we-know-of-president-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus just a day after this movie was completed. That’s how fast the news is these days: Even a documentary this urgent, and this obviously timed for the upcoming election, can’t help but feel already out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its occasional repetitions and oversights, \u003cem>Totally Under Control \u003c/em>gripped me from moment to moment. In a very different way, so did \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, the first documentary feature directed by Garrett Bradley. It’s a co-production between \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Amazon Studios, and it’s one of the most sublime and beautiful documentaries I’ve seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of \u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is a Black woman named Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich. In 1997 she planned to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La., with her husband, Rob. When an investor backed out, the desperate couple tried to rob a bank. No one was hurt and no money was stolen. Rich, who drove the getaway car, got a plea bargain and served three and a half years. Rob was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 60 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq6Hh07oLvs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rich began shooting videos of herself and of their sons so Rob could catch up with all the little moments he’d missed: birthdays and graduations, amusement park trips and pool parties. It added up to a treasure trove of home-movie footage that Rich handed over to Bradley several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Bradley began filming new footage of Rich, now a successful businesswoman; her now-grown children; and her tireless efforts to secure her husband’s release. The result is this sprawling yet intensely intimate chronicle, shot in black-and-white, of a couple’s enduring love and a family’s 21-year pursuit of justice. In one moving scene, Rich speaks about her thwarted hopes that Rob would be released in time to see his sons grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is about the cruelty of growing up without a father and growing older without a husband. It’s also about the injustice of a prison system that Rich has spent much of the past two decades speaking out against—by filing appeals and making phone calls on her husband’s behalf, and by giving speeches for the benefit of other people in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without revealing the outcome of the story, I’ll say that I found it emotionally overwhelming both times I watched the movie—at Sundance earlier this year, where it won a directing prize, and again at home this past week. It runs a short 81 minutes, but by the end, you feel so acutely connected to this family’s joy and pain that years really do seem to have passed. I cherished every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for so many others that have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. 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This past week I watched two absorbing new documentaries that both seem to bend and distort our sense of the passage of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them, which is actually called \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, spans more than two decades. The other one, titled \u003cem>Totally Under Control,\u003c/em> focuses on the very moment we’re living in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Totally Under Control\u003c/em> is the latest documentary from the prolific Alex Gibney, who directed it with Suzanne Hillinger and Ophelia Harutyunyan. It’s a cool but damning account of our government’s response to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/09/01/816707182/map-tracking-the-spread-of-the-coronavirus-in-the-u-s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 outbreak \u003c/a>that crams several months’ worth of increasingly grim headlines into two hours.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/YzTzgf9i4vw'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/YzTzgf9i4vw'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>While it’s as persuasive and well researched as you’d expect from Gibney, the director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395579453/church-of-scientology-calls-new-hbo-documentary-bigoted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Going Clear \u003c/em>\u003c/a>and \u003cem>Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room\u003c/em>, it might feel redundant to anyone who’s been glued to the news lately. But it’s still bracing to see the details laid out as forcefully and with such measured anger as they are here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using socially distanced camera setups to ensure everyone’s safety, the filmmakers sat down with journalists, doctors, health experts and government officials. Nearly all of them agree that a deadly airborne virus capable of asymptomatic transmission would always have posed a formidable threat in the U.S. But they also agree it was the president’s relentless downplaying of that threat and his disdain for science that led us to where we are now, with a devastated economy and more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/22/911934489/enormous-and-tragic-u-s-has-lost-more-than-200-000-people-to-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">200,000 Americans dead.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The movie focuses on several key areas where efforts to fight the virus broke down, starting with the technical flaws and bureaucratic logjams, involving the CDC and the FDA, that frustrated early attempts at mass testing. This was followed by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/03/25/820795727/can-the-u-s-crowdsource-its-way-out-of-a-mask-shortage-no-but-it-still-helps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shortages of protective equipment\u003c/a> for frontline healthcare workers, not helped by the Trump administration’s refusal to intervene on the states’ behalf. And then of course there’s the ongoing nationwide debate over \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">face coverings\u003c/a>; a medical supply executive who says he voted for Trump in 2016 expresses shock that wearing a mask in a pandemic could have become so intensely politicized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut of information presented here is dizzying but lucid. We hear about the sidelining of knowledgeable scientists like the CDC’s Dr. Nancy Messonnier and federal vaccine expert \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/10/06/920985099/government-scientist-tops-up-whistle-blower-complaint-and-quits-nih\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Rick Bright \u003c/a>when they tried to sound the alarm. And then there’s the irony that Trump himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/latest-updates-trump-covid-19-results/2020/10/03/919898777/timeline-what-we-know-of-president-trumps-covid-19-diagnosis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tested positive\u003c/a> for the virus just a day after this movie was completed. That’s how fast the news is these days: Even a documentary this urgent, and this obviously timed for the upcoming election, can’t help but feel already out of date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with its occasional repetitions and oversights, \u003cem>Totally Under Control \u003c/em>gripped me from moment to moment. In a very different way, so did \u003cem>Time\u003c/em>, the first documentary feature directed by Garrett Bradley. It’s a co-production between \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> and Amazon Studios, and it’s one of the most sublime and beautiful documentaries I’ve seen this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the heart of \u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is a Black woman named Sibil Fox Richardson, who goes by Fox Rich. In 1997 she planned to open a hip-hop clothing store in Shreveport, La., with her husband, Rob. When an investor backed out, the desperate couple tried to rob a bank. No one was hurt and no money was stolen. Rich, who drove the getaway car, got a plea bargain and served three and a half years. Rob was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to 60 years.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/kq6Hh07oLvs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/kq6Hh07oLvs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Rich began shooting videos of herself and of their sons so Rob could catch up with all the little moments he’d missed: birthdays and graduations, amusement park trips and pool parties. It added up to a treasure trove of home-movie footage that Rich handed over to Bradley several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Bradley began filming new footage of Rich, now a successful businesswoman; her now-grown children; and her tireless efforts to secure her husband’s release. The result is this sprawling yet intensely intimate chronicle, shot in black-and-white, of a couple’s enduring love and a family’s 21-year pursuit of justice. In one moving scene, Rich speaks about her thwarted hopes that Rob would be released in time to see his sons grow up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Time \u003c/em>is about the cruelty of growing up without a father and growing older without a husband. It’s also about the injustice of a prison system that Rich has spent much of the past two decades speaking out against—by filing appeals and making phone calls on her husband’s behalf, and by giving speeches for the benefit of other people in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without revealing the outcome of the story, I’ll say that I found it emotionally overwhelming both times I watched the movie—at Sundance earlier this year, where it won a directing prize, and again at home this past week. It runs a short 81 minutes, but by the end, you feel so acutely connected to this family’s joy and pain that years really do seem to have passed. I cherished every moment of this movie, because each one stands in for so many others that have been lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Totally+Under+Control%27+And+%27Time%27+Are+Two+Very+2020+Documentaries&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887706/totally-under-control-and-time-are-two-very-2020-documentaries","authors":["byline_arts_13887706"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_74"],"tags":["arts_10126","arts_10127","arts_13672","arts_1753","arts_3311"],"affiliates":["arts_137"],"featImg":"arts_13887714","label":"arts_137"},"arts_13887219":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887219","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887219","score":null,"sort":[1602079287000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"deaf-voters-deserve-asl-interpretation-at-all-presidential-debates","title":"Deaf Voters Deserve ASL Interpretation at All Presidential Debates","publishDate":1602079287,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Deaf Voters Deserve ASL Interpretation at All Presidential Debates | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>After the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, there was one thing upon which the entire nation could agree. The event was, in the words of the \u003cem>New York Times,\u003c/em> an “incoherent spectacle.” Non-stop interrupting and randomly hurled insults made it incredibly hard to follow and resulted in social media users asking, en masse, for future microphone muting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ValinChris/status/1311124384455643138\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So imagine for a moment the difficult task of following something this chaotic without the ability to hear. That’s a challenge that 11 million deaf and hearing-impaired Americans face every time they try to watch a live event that’s assisted only by delayed closed captions. One of them, a first-time voter named Erin, hit TikTok the night of the debate to express her frustration. “There’s not an ASL interpreter. There’s nothing,” she said. “It’s not equal access and it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ChelseaCirruzzo/status/1311304694401323009\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given the importance of the event, not accommodating the one million Americans who use ASL as their primary means of communication is obviously a major and wholly unacceptable oversight. It’s made all the worse by the fact that just five days before the debate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-white-house-provide-sign-language-interpreter-covid-briefings-n1240954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a judge ordered\u003c/a> the White House to start providing sign language interpreters at public and televised coronavirus briefings. As such, the need for ASL interpretation during all important political broadcasts should have been fresh in everyone’s minds. It wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the impossible task of trying to keep up via closed captions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgesfordeafandhh.org/\">Bridges For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing\u003c/a> asked the nation for more equitable treatment on Oct. 1. The nonprofit organization uploaded a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwxnaPxe_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> to YouTube asking Democrats, Republicans and the Federal Election Commission to include ASL interpreters at the next presidential debate. “We are willing to provide the interpreters at no cost,” a representative said. “For the deaf community, American Sign Language—a language of the United States of America—is our first language and necessary for equal access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that this week’s Vice Presidential debate has no plans to incorporate ASL, that request appears to have gone unheeded, at least for now. Which isn’t terribly surprising given that deaf voters in America have never before been granted interpreters at a presidential debate. The unruliness that occurred on Sept. 29 simply shone a light on just how badly it’s needed. [aside postid='pop_104339']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where can deaf voters turn for live interpretation of the debates, including Wednesday’s Vice Presidential one? \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DPANTV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DPAN.tv\u003c/a>. The sign language channel livestreamed the Trump and Biden debate, with full ASL interpretation, via its Facebook page. Three interpreters appeared in a vertical stack on the right side of the screen, each individually translating for Trump, Biden and moderator Christopher Wallace, respectively. It was DPAN’s second time interpreting debates in a live setting, having done the same in 2016 when \u003ca href=\"https://dpan.tv/programs/2016-presidential-debate-e2a5f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump and Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> went head-to-head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13887515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-800x446.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-800x446.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-768x429.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM.png 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps DPAN’s example of how to successfully incorporate ASL into a live broadcast might one day inspire one of the major television networks to follow suit. Regan Thibodeau, who interpreted for Biden at the first debate, is hopeful. “This is history in the making,” she told the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressherald.com/2020/10/06/presidential-debate-raises-profile-of-asl-interpreter-in-maine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press Herald\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> “I am so excited to help advocate for this to become the norm for standardized access in the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://signvote.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign Vote\u003c/a>—a coalition of 18 organizations for the deaf—has also been pushing for progress. It offers \u003ca href=\"https://signvote.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a space\u003c/a> for the deaf community to catch up on election news, share opinions, and watch analysis of important campaign events. (Its 9-minute summary of the first debate, provided by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmY7Wgy92A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Daily Moth\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, packed a surprising amount of information into one short YouTube video.) Sign Vote’s end goal is to encourage greater participation by the deaf community in elections at every level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Republicans and Democrats opening up debate stages to ASL interpreters isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the smart choice. Especially given that the 2016 election was decided by just \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-2016-election-votes-supreme-court-liberal-justice-1b4bc4fc-9fad-44b4-ab54-9ef86aa9c1f1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">80,000 votes\u003c/a> in three states. The representative from Bridges For the Deaf said it best in his campaign video last week. “Our community,” he said, “is perhaps more significant than has ever been realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow DPAN.tv’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DPANTV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page\u003c/a> for updates about the upcoming debate livestreams, including Oct. 7’s Vice Presidential debate. You can also view Sept. 29’s presidential debate in full there, as well as on \u003ca href=\"https://dpan.tv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the DPAN website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"ASL interpretation has never been provided at a presidential debate before. Now, one channel is single-handedly fixing that.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020026,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":804},"headData":{"title":"Deaf Voters Deserve ASL Interpretation at All Presidential Debates | KQED","description":"ASL interpretation has never been provided at a presidential debate before. Now, one channel is single-handedly fixing that.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13887219/deaf-voters-deserve-asl-interpretation-at-all-presidential-debates","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After the first presidential debate on Sept. 29, there was one thing upon which the entire nation could agree. The event was, in the words of the \u003cem>New York Times,\u003c/em> an “incoherent spectacle.” Non-stop interrupting and randomly hurled insults made it incredibly hard to follow and resulted in social media users asking, en masse, for future microphone muting.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1311124384455643138"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So imagine for a moment the difficult task of following something this chaotic without the ability to hear. That’s a challenge that 11 million deaf and hearing-impaired Americans face every time they try to watch a live event that’s assisted only by delayed closed captions. One of them, a first-time voter named Erin, hit TikTok the night of the debate to express her frustration. “There’s not an ASL interpreter. There’s nothing,” she said. “It’s not equal access and it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1311304694401323009"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Given the importance of the event, not accommodating the one million Americans who use ASL as their primary means of communication is obviously a major and wholly unacceptable oversight. It’s made all the worse by the fact that just five days before the debate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-orders-white-house-provide-sign-language-interpreter-covid-briefings-n1240954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a judge ordered\u003c/a> the White House to start providing sign language interpreters at public and televised coronavirus briefings. As such, the need for ASL interpretation during all important political broadcasts should have been fresh in everyone’s minds. It wasn’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by the impossible task of trying to keep up via closed captions, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bridgesfordeafandhh.org/\">Bridges For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing\u003c/a> asked the nation for more equitable treatment on Oct. 1. The nonprofit organization uploaded a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUwxnaPxe_E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> to YouTube asking Democrats, Republicans and the Federal Election Commission to include ASL interpreters at the next presidential debate. “We are willing to provide the interpreters at no cost,” a representative said. “For the deaf community, American Sign Language—a language of the United States of America—is our first language and necessary for equal access.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given that this week’s Vice Presidential debate has no plans to incorporate ASL, that request appears to have gone unheeded, at least for now. Which isn’t terribly surprising given that deaf voters in America have never before been granted interpreters at a presidential debate. The unruliness that occurred on Sept. 29 simply shone a light on just how badly it’s needed. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_104339","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So where can deaf voters turn for live interpretation of the debates, including Wednesday’s Vice Presidential one? \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DPANTV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DPAN.tv\u003c/a>. The sign language channel livestreamed the Trump and Biden debate, with full ASL interpretation, via its Facebook page. Three interpreters appeared in a vertical stack on the right side of the screen, each individually translating for Trump, Biden and moderator Christopher Wallace, respectively. It was DPAN’s second time interpreting debates in a live setting, having done the same in 2016 when \u003ca href=\"https://dpan.tv/programs/2016-presidential-debate-e2a5f6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump and Hillary Clinton\u003c/a> went head-to-head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13887515\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-800x446.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-800x446.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-160x89.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM-768x429.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Screen-Shot-2020-10-06-at-1.48.38-PM.png 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps DPAN’s example of how to successfully incorporate ASL into a live broadcast might one day inspire one of the major television networks to follow suit. Regan Thibodeau, who interpreted for Biden at the first debate, is hopeful. “This is history in the making,” she told the \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressherald.com/2020/10/06/presidential-debate-raises-profile-of-asl-interpreter-in-maine/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Press Herald\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> “I am so excited to help advocate for this to become the norm for standardized access in the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2016, \u003ca href=\"https://signvote.org/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sign Vote\u003c/a>—a coalition of 18 organizations for the deaf—has also been pushing for progress. It offers \u003ca href=\"https://signvote.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a space\u003c/a> for the deaf community to catch up on election news, share opinions, and watch analysis of important campaign events. (Its 9-minute summary of the first debate, provided by \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLmY7Wgy92A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Daily Moth\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, packed a surprising amount of information into one short YouTube video.) Sign Vote’s end goal is to encourage greater participation by the deaf community in elections at every level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Republicans and Democrats opening up debate stages to ASL interpreters isn’t just the right thing to do—it’s the smart choice. Especially given that the 2016 election was decided by just \u003ca href=\"https://www.axios.com/hillary-clinton-2016-election-votes-supreme-court-liberal-justice-1b4bc4fc-9fad-44b4-ab54-9ef86aa9c1f1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">80,000 votes\u003c/a> in three states. The representative from Bridges For the Deaf said it best in his campaign video last week. “Our community,” he said, “is perhaps more significant than has ever been realized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Follow DPAN.tv’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/DPANTV/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page\u003c/a> for updates about the upcoming debate livestreams, including Oct. 7’s Vice Presidential debate. You can also view Sept. 29’s presidential debate in full there, as well as on \u003ca href=\"https://dpan.tv/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the DPAN website\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887219/deaf-voters-deserve-asl-interpretation-at-all-presidential-debates","authors":["11242"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_9693","arts_1753","arts_7072","arts_5826","arts_2792"],"featImg":"arts_13887315","label":"arts"},"arts_13887076":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13887076","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13887076","score":null,"sort":[1601910038000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"whats-on-your-ballot-w-kamau-bell-comedian-and-tv-host","title":"What’s On Your Ballot?: W. Kamau Bell, Comedian and TV Host","publishDate":1601910038,"format":"standard","headTitle":"What’s On Your Ballot?: W. Kamau Bell, Comedian and TV Host | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"arts"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ci>In 2020, the United States faces an election like no other. Citizens will vote in the midst of a global pandemic, severe climate change, an uprising for racial justice and an administration that has eroded the norms of democracy. In ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/whats-on-your-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What’s on Your Ballot?\u003c/a>,’ KQED checks in with ten different artists, activists and cultural figures about the issues on their minds and their hopes for the country.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he day before I speak to comedian W. Kamau Bell, I wake up to a news alert: “President Trump refuses to verbally commit to peaceful transfer of power.” As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., terrifying but frequent headlines like these are a daily source of fear and trepidation, and a harsh reminder of the state of our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unity seems to be painfully absent in the country, Bell’s work on his Emmy Award-winning show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/shows/united-shades-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Shades of America\u003c/a>\u003c/em> seems more relevant than ever. When I catch him in a rare free moment between work calls and shooting a new season, I find a familiarity in the way he speaks: a classic Bay Area groundedness that feels like home, but also a layer of brutal realism, informed by his experiences and tough conversations with Americans of all backgrounds, and buffered by his humor. We discuss everything from Ghanaian citizenship and the prospect of a talent exodus from America, to the importance of down-ballot voting to create local change, to his least favorite question: “Are you hopeful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we hang up the phone, I realize I can’t quite answer that question myself. But at a time when the future feels as uncertain and chaotic as it does hopeless, I do feel a greater sense of clarity—and for that I have Bell to thank.\u003cem>—Samuel Getachew\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell\" width=\"596\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee.jpg 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee-160x215.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell: “When I hear white people ask questions like, ‘How do we start?’ I’m like, we’ve already started. If you don’t know how to start now, then I think it’s on you.’ \u003ccite>(Pete Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As we head into the election, what do you make of the political climate in America today?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really important for us all, but especially for young people, to realize that this is not how things are supposed to go. This is not just like, “Oh, we elected a Republican and then we elected a Democrat and we elected a Republican.” That this is not the normal state of things in America and that it is extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the part of history that they write about. And I really think the identity of this nation is at stake right now, so I don’t think there’s any way to overstate that. While voting is a big part of it, that’s not going to solve all of our issues. It’s really about, does the United States have the appetite for true structural change in nearly every institution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is the first election that I’ll be able to vote in, and I sympathize with the frustration that a lot of my peers are expressing with the failures of electoral politics. What would you say to those who feel that voting is futile?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would say look at AOC. I would say look at Cori Bush, who is \u003ca href=\"https://coribush.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running for office\u003c/a>. Look at Ilhan Omar. Look at Iyanna Presley, Rashida Talib. Those are women of color who maybe didn’t even think to run until a few years ago. Certainly the idea we would have those women in high-level public office, all of them at once, seemed like a fantasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We get focused on the presidential election every four years, I think to the detriment of local elections, which are how you can really drastically change your community. Even if you don’t know all the ins and outs, do some research to see if there’s a group you align with politically—like, in San Francisco, there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theleaguesf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">League of Pissed Off Voters\u003c/a>—and then they have voting guides you can follow. Don’t let any one person be your source of knowledge about this stuff. Make sure you look into multiple sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local elections are how you can have a say in the school budget, or how police funds are distributed. And you can actually be a part of that change. If you’re 18 now, and you want to run for office—or you’re a person of color, a woman of color, or Black or indigenous or trans—this is your time. So I would say don’t leave it up to the white guys because they have totally fucked it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/wkamaubell/status/1294428939595603970\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Through your show, you’ve met so many people from all walks of life and from all across the nation. What do you foresee being the response to Trump’s victory in November if he wins? And if he loses but refuses to concede?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually I think there’s going to be a pretty similar response if he wins or if he loses, or even if he loses and leaves right away—the funny thing about Trump, he may just get embarrassed and just leave even before his term is up. You never know what he’s going to really do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think there is still going to be a large percentage of this country, who are his base, who are going to make democracy very difficult. Let’s not get caught up in the idea that if Biden/Harris wins, then \u003cem>Whoo! All right. Everything’s back to normal.\u003c/em> Which, we don’t want normal anyway. We all ought to be prepared for the fact that it’s going to get ugly, because I think if Trump loses, he’s going to make it look like the election was stolen from him. And if he wins, it will be in large part because he has disenfranchised voters and committed his own version of voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we have to prepare for the fact that if he loses and once he leaves, whenever that is, he’s not going to be a political leader in this country; he’s going to go try to make some money. And so then all those people end up leaderless, and then whoever steps into that leadership vacuum is the person I think I’m actually really afraid of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From KQED's California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/,KQED 2020 California Voter Guide: All the State Props, All the Bay Area Measures' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-CA-Voter-Guide.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As Black men in this country, both of us are obviously all too aware of racism as a concept and as an experience; it’s nothing new or surprising. And you’ve been talking about race and racism for much of your career. But this past summer, we saw a lot of Americans, particularly white Americans, coming to terms with systemic racism for the first time in their lives. How hopeful are you about the long-term impact of this most recent wave of Black Lives Matter movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of it is tied to what we learn from the pandemic, and also people’s appetite to engage in this Black Lives Matter discussion—specifically white people’s appetite to engage in the work of Black Lives Matter—after a vaccine comes out. If a vaccine comes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, it’s on white people right now to dig into the work in such a way that no matter what happens, they’re already doing the work. You can start reading a book and then put it down and never pick it up again. But once you get 100 pages in, in all likelihood you’re going to finish that book. So I feel like white people have to get 100 pages into this anti-racism work. Because I think there are still white people who are still at the place of, “How do we talk about this stuff?” And I’m like, that is a pre-George Floyd question. \u003cem>[Laughs]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tools have been laid before you, whether it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/books/review/how-to-be-an-antiracist-ibram-x-kendi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the New York Times bestseller list\u003c/a> or on every new show you watch or on podcasts. There’s the web, there’s that \u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter website\u003c/a> where they literally just have all the different things you can do. So the tools are available to you. So I think that scares me now, when I hear white people ask questions like, “How do we start?” I’m like, “we’ve already started.” If you don’t know how to start now, then I think it’s on you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the other question that I get, that I’m really annoyed by, is “are you hopeful?” I don’t think it’s time to really engage in hopefulness. Especially when white people engage in the idea of hopefulness, it’s hopeful in the sense of, “Take your foot off the accelerator.” I think it’s time right now to do the work. Hope comes at the end of all the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK4l23tYD_s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yesterday, a grand jury in Kentucky decided not to charge any of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor (aside from one charge of wanton endangerment). It was disheartening to see so few consequences for her death—after so many months of protests, after putting her on magazine covers, plastering her name everywhere. Where do we go when all of our work seems futile, and no matter how hard we fight for someone, we never get any justice? What is the next course of action when it feels like every action fails?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think you’re asking the question that every activist and organizer at upper levels is asking right now. I think a part of it is making sure that it stays in people’s minds, because a lot of people have done the work, but most of the country was not focused on Breonna Taylor. There’s still a lot of the country who maybe just heard her name for the first time yesterday. So I think that part of it is mainstreaming the story, you know, when you see \u003ca href=\"https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/09/23/for-nba-players-breonna-taylor-grand-jury-decision-not-enough/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBA players talking about her\u003c/a>, that’s a part of it. Getting her name into a place where like regular folks who aren’t looking to pay attention have to pay attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, I think we know the battle is eternal in this country. We’re still trying to get Emmett Till’s name cleared, in some sense. I think Martin Luther King Jr. is very clear: “I may not get there with you to the promised land.” But I don’t think he thought the promised land was that close. I think he knew. So I think we have to really engage in multiple levels of the battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try to focus on things that I can help out with, where I can see progress. That’s why I do things like donate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.donorschoose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donors Choose\u003c/a>, which helps support public schools all around the country, and get things that those classrooms and students need, whether it’s books or supplies or a trombone or STEM materials. That’s something I can see a result from, and those kids are going to be helped. So I think there’s that, and then there’s going out in the streets just because you need to go out in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s levels of the kind of work you do in your life, where you make sure your white friends don’t say racist shit, that they don’t shy away from discussions about racism, that they actually hear and pay attention. And then there’s the piece of voting. It’s the same thing as like, doing one push up ain’t gonna do a lot for you. And if you only do push-ups, the rest of your body is going to suffer. You have to do a lot of different things at a lot of different levels to see results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887387\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee-160x209.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell: “Let’s not get caught up in the idea that if Biden/Harris wins, then ‘Whoo! All right. Everything’s back to normal.’ We don’t want normal anyway. We all ought to be prepared for the fact that it’s going to get ugly.” \u003ccite>(Pete Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the election, no matter how it goes, what are your hopes and goals for the country and for the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the Bay Area, and really California as a whole, should do everything it can to mark itself as the most progressive state in this country. And that’s difficult because as we found out through COVID, there’s a lot of red in this state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think specifically for the Bay Area, we have to legislate and we have to dismantle structures that are not progressive, that aren’t inclusive. We talk about defunding the police—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823700/the-yearslong-movement-to-get-police-out-of-oakland-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well, getting the cops out of the Oakland public schools\u003c/a>, that’s a big win. We have the research that shows they don’t actually help, that they mostly just make kids feel like they’re in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we double down on this thing that Fox News thinks we are, that we aren’t actually. They think we’re some sort of liberal progressive mecca, and those of us who live here know that’s not as true as people want to believe. And that, again, gets to local elections. I think the Bay Area has to really be the bright blue beacon that carries the state. And electing new people to political office is a big part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the country, I think we have to remember America has had a good PR person, and we talk about how we’re the greatest nation on earth, and then people all over the world go, “If I want to make something of myself, I should go to the greatest nation on Earth, America.” I think we have to accept the fact that that reputation is probably gone now, and we’re certainly losing it as every day goes by, as Trump says things like, “I may not leave office,” or when he gives weird speeches like he gave one comparing people to “race horses for good genes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so we’re really in a fight, as people say, for the soul of this nation, and also maybe to become the nation that we claim to be, but that we never were. It’s actually helpful to think, what if we lose that fight? What does that mean for us? What if we become the country that our best and brightest people leave to go other places? If Trump gets reelected, then I think we’re closer to that position than we realize. Where the kids are like, “Man, I’ve got a good jump shot. I’m going to go play overseas,” you know? Or, “I’m really smart and I have good ideas and I have ways to innovate technology. I’m not going to go to Silicon Valley. I’m going to go somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in a position where we’re in a very different America than the one that we’ve come to know. People talk about the Roman Empire or the British Empire. Well, this is the American Empire, and those other empires didn’t last. And so I think it’s worth thinking about. Are we on the last legs of that? And what does that look like? Because right now it feels like, as my mom said, like we’re slipping into fascism. And she said that before COVID and before George Floyd. And we’re slipping faster than that now. So are we prepared to fight for this country living under those circumstances?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of Black people right now are like, “Ghana is giving out citizenships!” \u003cem>[Laughs]\u003c/em> So, I mean, is that the deal? And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with thinking that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m currently on a gap year before I go to college in the fall of 2021. And a lot of students from my class who are also taking a gap year, the first thing they did was apply for a New Zealand visa, or the ones who have parents from the U.K. or from Sweden are using their dual citizenship to go spend their whole gap year abroad, because things are open and they’re actually handling COVID. So in a way, we’ve already kind of started to see that happen.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then some of those people aren’t going to come back! Maybe not half of them, but there’s going to be a couple that are like, you know, this is cool. Even if it’s one or two, that still was an inconceivable thing, before COVID, before Trump, before social unrest on the streets related to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Black folks, for those of us who are descendants of slavery, we don’t have that connection to another country. Which is why when Ghana is like, “Come here,” I think a lot of Black folks are like, \u003cem>oh\u003c/em>, I never thought about Ghana, but I’m thinking about it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview was edited for length and clarity. Learn more about W. Kamau Bell and ‘United Shades of America’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/shows/united-shades-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The comedian and TV host talks voting guides, public education, and why 'How do we talk about race?' is a pre-George Floyd question. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020045,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":true,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":41,"wordCount":3133},"headData":{"title":"What’s On Your Ballot?: W. Kamau Bell, Comedian and TV Host | KQED","description":"The comedian and TV host talks voting guides, public education, and why 'How do we talk about race?' is a pre-George Floyd question. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/arts/13887076/whats-on-your-ballot-w-kamau-bell-comedian-and-tv-host","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>In 2020, the United States faces an election like no other. Citizens will vote in the midst of a global pandemic, severe climate change, an uprising for racial justice and an administration that has eroded the norms of democracy. In ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/whats-on-your-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What’s on Your Ballot?\u003c/a>,’ KQED checks in with ten different artists, activists and cultural figures about the issues on their minds and their hopes for the country.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he day before I speak to comedian W. Kamau Bell, I wake up to a news alert: “President Trump refuses to verbally commit to peaceful transfer of power.” As we enter the seventh month of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., terrifying but frequent headlines like these are a daily source of fear and trepidation, and a harsh reminder of the state of our nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a moment when unity seems to be painfully absent in the country, Bell’s work on his Emmy Award-winning show \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/shows/united-shades-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Shades of America\u003c/a>\u003c/em> seems more relevant than ever. When I catch him in a rare free moment between work calls and shooting a new season, I find a familiarity in the way he speaks: a classic Bay Area groundedness that feels like home, but also a layer of brutal realism, informed by his experiences and tough conversations with Americans of all backgrounds, and buffered by his humor. We discuss everything from Ghanaian citizenship and the prospect of a talent exodus from America, to the importance of down-ballot voting to create local change, to his least favorite question: “Are you hopeful?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After we hang up the phone, I realize I can’t quite answer that question myself. But at a time when the future feels as uncertain and chaotic as it does hopeless, I do feel a greater sense of clarity—and for that I have Bell to thank.\u003cem>—Samuel Getachew\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887384\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 596px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887384\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell\" width=\"596\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee.jpg 596w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.Inline.PeteLee-160x215.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell: “When I hear white people ask questions like, ‘How do we start?’ I’m like, we’ve already started. If you don’t know how to start now, then I think it’s on you.’ \u003ccite>(Pete Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As we head into the election, what do you make of the political climate in America today?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really important for us all, but especially for young people, to realize that this is not how things are supposed to go. This is not just like, “Oh, we elected a Republican and then we elected a Democrat and we elected a Republican.” That this is not the normal state of things in America and that it is extraordinary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the part of history that they write about. And I really think the identity of this nation is at stake right now, so I don’t think there’s any way to overstate that. While voting is a big part of it, that’s not going to solve all of our issues. It’s really about, does the United States have the appetite for true structural change in nearly every institution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>This is the first election that I’ll be able to vote in, and I sympathize with the frustration that a lot of my peers are expressing with the failures of electoral politics. What would you say to those who feel that voting is futile?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would say look at AOC. I would say look at Cori Bush, who is \u003ca href=\"https://coribush.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running for office\u003c/a>. Look at Ilhan Omar. Look at Iyanna Presley, Rashida Talib. Those are women of color who maybe didn’t even think to run until a few years ago. Certainly the idea we would have those women in high-level public office, all of them at once, seemed like a fantasy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We get focused on the presidential election every four years, I think to the detriment of local elections, which are how you can really drastically change your community. Even if you don’t know all the ins and outs, do some research to see if there’s a group you align with politically—like, in San Francisco, there’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.theleaguesf.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">League of Pissed Off Voters\u003c/a>—and then they have voting guides you can follow. Don’t let any one person be your source of knowledge about this stuff. Make sure you look into multiple sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local elections are how you can have a say in the school budget, or how police funds are distributed. And you can actually be a part of that change. If you’re 18 now, and you want to run for office—or you’re a person of color, a woman of color, or Black or indigenous or trans—this is your time. So I would say don’t leave it up to the white guys because they have totally fucked it up.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1294428939595603970"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Through your show, you’ve met so many people from all walks of life and from all across the nation. What do you foresee being the response to Trump’s victory in November if he wins? And if he loses but refuses to concede?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actually I think there’s going to be a pretty similar response if he wins or if he loses, or even if he loses and leaves right away—the funny thing about Trump, he may just get embarrassed and just leave even before his term is up. You never know what he’s going to really do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But I think there is still going to be a large percentage of this country, who are his base, who are going to make democracy very difficult. Let’s not get caught up in the idea that if Biden/Harris wins, then \u003cem>Whoo! All right. Everything’s back to normal.\u003c/em> Which, we don’t want normal anyway. We all ought to be prepared for the fact that it’s going to get ugly, because I think if Trump loses, he’s going to make it look like the election was stolen from him. And if he wins, it will be in large part because he has disenfranchised voters and committed his own version of voter fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we have to prepare for the fact that if he loses and once he leaves, whenever that is, he’s not going to be a political leader in this country; he’s going to go try to make some money. And so then all those people end up leaderless, and then whoever steps into that leadership vacuum is the person I think I’m actually really afraid of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"From KQED's California Voter Guide ","link1":"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/,KQED 2020 California Voter Guide: All the State Props, All the Bay Area Measures","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-CA-Voter-Guide.png"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As Black men in this country, both of us are obviously all too aware of racism as a concept and as an experience; it’s nothing new or surprising. And you’ve been talking about race and racism for much of your career. But this past summer, we saw a lot of Americans, particularly white Americans, coming to terms with systemic racism for the first time in their lives. How hopeful are you about the long-term impact of this most recent wave of Black Lives Matter movement?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think a lot of it is tied to what we learn from the pandemic, and also people’s appetite to engage in this Black Lives Matter discussion—specifically white people’s appetite to engage in the work of Black Lives Matter—after a vaccine comes out. If a vaccine comes out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really, it’s on white people right now to dig into the work in such a way that no matter what happens, they’re already doing the work. You can start reading a book and then put it down and never pick it up again. But once you get 100 pages in, in all likelihood you’re going to finish that book. So I feel like white people have to get 100 pages into this anti-racism work. Because I think there are still white people who are still at the place of, “How do we talk about this stuff?” And I’m like, that is a pre-George Floyd question. \u003cem>[Laughs]\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tools have been laid before you, whether it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/books/review/how-to-be-an-antiracist-ibram-x-kendi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on the New York Times bestseller list\u003c/a> or on every new show you watch or on podcasts. There’s the web, there’s that \u003ca href=\"https://blacklivesmatter.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Matter website\u003c/a> where they literally just have all the different things you can do. So the tools are available to you. So I think that scares me now, when I hear white people ask questions like, “How do we start?” I’m like, “we’ve already started.” If you don’t know how to start now, then I think it’s on you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the other question that I get, that I’m really annoyed by, is “are you hopeful?” I don’t think it’s time to really engage in hopefulness. Especially when white people engage in the idea of hopefulness, it’s hopeful in the sense of, “Take your foot off the accelerator.” I think it’s time right now to do the work. Hope comes at the end of all the work.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/QK4l23tYD_s'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/QK4l23tYD_s'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Yesterday, a grand jury in Kentucky decided not to charge any of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor (aside from one charge of wanton endangerment). It was disheartening to see so few consequences for her death—after so many months of protests, after putting her on magazine covers, plastering her name everywhere. Where do we go when all of our work seems futile, and no matter how hard we fight for someone, we never get any justice? What is the next course of action when it feels like every action fails?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think you’re asking the question that every activist and organizer at upper levels is asking right now. I think a part of it is making sure that it stays in people’s minds, because a lot of people have done the work, but most of the country was not focused on Breonna Taylor. There’s still a lot of the country who maybe just heard her name for the first time yesterday. So I think that part of it is mainstreaming the story, you know, when you see \u003ca href=\"https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/09/23/for-nba-players-breonna-taylor-grand-jury-decision-not-enough/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBA players talking about her\u003c/a>, that’s a part of it. Getting her name into a place where like regular folks who aren’t looking to pay attention have to pay attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But also, I think we know the battle is eternal in this country. We’re still trying to get Emmett Till’s name cleared, in some sense. I think Martin Luther King Jr. is very clear: “I may not get there with you to the promised land.” But I don’t think he thought the promised land was that close. I think he knew. So I think we have to really engage in multiple levels of the battle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I try to focus on things that I can help out with, where I can see progress. That’s why I do things like donate to \u003ca href=\"https://www.donorschoose.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donors Choose\u003c/a>, which helps support public schools all around the country, and get things that those classrooms and students need, whether it’s books or supplies or a trombone or STEM materials. That’s something I can see a result from, and those kids are going to be helped. So I think there’s that, and then there’s going out in the streets just because you need to go out in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s levels of the kind of work you do in your life, where you make sure your white friends don’t say racist shit, that they don’t shy away from discussions about racism, that they actually hear and pay attention. And then there’s the piece of voting. It’s the same thing as like, doing one push up ain’t gonna do a lot for you. And if you only do push-ups, the rest of your body is going to suffer. You have to do a lot of different things at a lot of different levels to see results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887387\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13887387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee.jpg\" alt=\"W. Kamau Bell\" width=\"600\" height=\"784\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee.jpg 600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Kamau.INline2.PeteLee-160x209.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">W. Kamau Bell: “Let’s not get caught up in the idea that if Biden/Harris wins, then ‘Whoo! All right. Everything’s back to normal.’ We don’t want normal anyway. We all ought to be prepared for the fact that it’s going to get ugly.” \u003ccite>(Pete Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>After the election, no matter how it goes, what are your hopes and goals for the country and for the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think that the Bay Area, and really California as a whole, should do everything it can to mark itself as the most progressive state in this country. And that’s difficult because as we found out through COVID, there’s a lot of red in this state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So I think specifically for the Bay Area, we have to legislate and we have to dismantle structures that are not progressive, that aren’t inclusive. We talk about defunding the police—\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11823700/the-yearslong-movement-to-get-police-out-of-oakland-public-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">well, getting the cops out of the Oakland public schools\u003c/a>, that’s a big win. We have the research that shows they don’t actually help, that they mostly just make kids feel like they’re in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think we double down on this thing that Fox News thinks we are, that we aren’t actually. They think we’re some sort of liberal progressive mecca, and those of us who live here know that’s not as true as people want to believe. And that, again, gets to local elections. I think the Bay Area has to really be the bright blue beacon that carries the state. And electing new people to political office is a big part of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the country, I think we have to remember America has had a good PR person, and we talk about how we’re the greatest nation on earth, and then people all over the world go, “If I want to make something of myself, I should go to the greatest nation on Earth, America.” I think we have to accept the fact that that reputation is probably gone now, and we’re certainly losing it as every day goes by, as Trump says things like, “I may not leave office,” or when he gives weird speeches like he gave one comparing people to “race horses for good genes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so we’re really in a fight, as people say, for the soul of this nation, and also maybe to become the nation that we claim to be, but that we never were. It’s actually helpful to think, what if we lose that fight? What does that mean for us? What if we become the country that our best and brightest people leave to go other places? If Trump gets reelected, then I think we’re closer to that position than we realize. Where the kids are like, “Man, I’ve got a good jump shot. I’m going to go play overseas,” you know? Or, “I’m really smart and I have good ideas and I have ways to innovate technology. I’m not going to go to Silicon Valley. I’m going to go somewhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in a position where we’re in a very different America than the one that we’ve come to know. People talk about the Roman Empire or the British Empire. Well, this is the American Empire, and those other empires didn’t last. And so I think it’s worth thinking about. Are we on the last legs of that? And what does that look like? Because right now it feels like, as my mom said, like we’re slipping into fascism. And she said that before COVID and before George Floyd. And we’re slipping faster than that now. So are we prepared to fight for this country living under those circumstances?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of Black people right now are like, “Ghana is giving out citizenships!” \u003cem>[Laughs]\u003c/em> So, I mean, is that the deal? And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with thinking that way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m currently on a gap year before I go to college in the fall of 2021. And a lot of students from my class who are also taking a gap year, the first thing they did was apply for a New Zealand visa, or the ones who have parents from the U.K. or from Sweden are using their dual citizenship to go spend their whole gap year abroad, because things are open and they’re actually handling COVID. So in a way, we’ve already kind of started to see that happen.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then some of those people aren’t going to come back! Maybe not half of them, but there’s going to be a couple that are like, you know, this is cool. Even if it’s one or two, that still was an inconceivable thing, before COVID, before Trump, before social unrest on the streets related to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And as Black folks, for those of us who are descendants of slavery, we don’t have that connection to another country. Which is why when Ghana is like, “Come here,” I think a lot of Black folks are like, \u003cem>oh\u003c/em>, I never thought about Ghana, but I’m thinking about it now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interview was edited for length and clarity. Learn more about W. Kamau Bell and ‘United Shades of America’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/shows/united-shades-of-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13887076/whats-on-your-ballot-w-kamau-bell-comedian-and-tv-host","authors":["11734"],"categories":["arts_1","arts_2303","arts_835"],"tags":["arts_3156","arts_2767","arts_1753","arts_10278","arts_1050","arts_5826","arts_12380","arts_7627","arts_2450","arts_12381"],"featImg":"arts_13887378","label":"arts"},"arts_13884826":{"type":"posts","id":"arts_13884826","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"arts","id":"13884826","score":null,"sort":[1597428012000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-death-of-the-post-office-theres-a-movie-about-that","title":"The Death of the Post Office? There’s a Movie About That.","publishDate":1597428012,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The Death of the Post Office? There’s a Movie About That. | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y now, you’ve read all about the sanctioned murder of the post office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know all about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bohemian.com/northbay/a-first-class-institution/Content?oid=2409801&showFullText=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debilitating requirement\u003c/a> approved by a Republican-led Congress in 2006 that the post office pre-fund its benefits 75 years into the future. You’ve studied up on Louis DeJoy, Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General, who’s \u003ca href=\"https://federalsoup.com/articles/2020/07/16/usps-solvency-plan.aspx#:~:text=First%20off%2C%20Postmaster%20General%20Louis,is%20not%20delivered%20on%20time.&text=%E2%80%9CIf%20the%20plants%20run%20late,remain%20for%20the%20next%20day.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slashed overtime pay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wk9z/the-post-office-is-deactivating-mail-sorting-machines-ahead-of-the-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed sorting machines\u003c/a>, weakening the post office’s ability to deliver mail on the cusp of an election that, due to a global pandemic, is projected to see a record number of mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, you heard Trump say that nationwide voting by mail would mean “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” And on Thursday, you heard him \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/13/trump-blurts-out-his-true-motive-blocking-post-office-funding-mail-in-voting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly admit\u003c/a> that he won’t provide additional funding to the post office because it would increase the ability to process mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/13/trumps-attack-postal-service-is-now-national-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national emergency\u003c/a>, no doubt. It’s a personal crisis, as well, for the millions of people who rely on the post office for prescriptions, paychecks, bills and consumer goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, released last year, is a film about none of those things. What it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> about is the hole that’s left when a post office closes in a small rural community. For hundreds of towns across America, these tiny, one-room post office branches serve as community hubs, gathering places, and salves against loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been this way since the first post office was opened in 1775. It’s an essential part of small-town life that’s dying quickly, as this administration closes \u003ca href=\"https://www.apwu.org/news/249-post-offices-stations-branches-suspension-discontinuance-list-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more and more\u003c/a> post offices nationwide. No other film has captured the loss of it quite as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Allen stars in 'Colewell' as Nora, a postmaster who faces solitude and her own past.\" width=\"582\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Allen stars in ‘Colewell’ as Nora, a postmaster who faces solitude and her own past. \u003ccite>(Gravitas Ventures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“I\u003c/span>n my own life, where I live in the country, going to the post office is how I connect with the people in the little town I live in,” Karen Allen, the star of \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, told me in a visit to KQED upon the film’s 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/colewell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premiere\u003c/a> in San Francisco. “It’s where I see people that otherwise I probably wouldn’t see, because we’re sort of spread out in the countryside, and there’s that kind of wonderful conversation that happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, best known to moviegoers as Indiana Jones’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PlXSw0BQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fierce, action-chasing ex-girlfriend Marion\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Raiders of the Lost Ark\u003c/em>, might seem like an unusual choice to play the film’s lead, Nora. The sixtysomething Nora doesn’t drink anyone under the table, or pull knives on attacking Nazis. Instead, she sips her morning coffee, pulls the rubber band off the morning paper, raises chickens and lives a quiet life of solitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until the time comes each morning to open the tiny post office that abuts her house. There, people bring their knitting, their dogs, and their endless stories to Nora, and to each other, daily, among the wood-paneled walls and old combination-dial P.O. boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said the tableau was instantly familiar. “I have a house in a small town in western Massachusetts that has a post office not dissimilar to this post office,” she told me. “A lot of small-town post offices are linked to little stores, or little houses, and the communities are very interwoven with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em> is slow-moving, which befits its rural setting, but it’s carried beautifully by Allen’s emotionally touching portrayal. (The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> called it “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-12-05/colewell-review-karen-allen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the performance of a lifetime\u003c/a>.”) Fifteen minutes into the short, 79-minute film, Nora gets a notice that her branch is slated to be closed, setting in motion a series of severance packages, transfer offers, and personal reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s then we start to clearly see the pride of purpose in Nora’s countenance when she dons her blue USPS cardigan in the morning, and the plain fact that Nora needs the customers of the post office just as much as they need her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending closure also sets up a classic you-can’t-fight-city-hall battle between the residents of Colewell and the district manager in charge of closing its post office. At a town hall meeting, speakers bring up President Nixon making the postal service semi-privatized in the 1970s, and the agency’s challenges in turning a profit in the years since the 2006 bill hobbled its ability to diversify services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds a lot like the national discourse about the post office today. Except now, instead of arguing to keep a rural branch open, people are fighting to keep a president and Republican-controlled Senate from openly destroying the postal service in order to rig an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-800x430.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Allen stars in 'Colewell' as Nora.\" width=\"800\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-800x430.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-1020x548.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-768x413.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Allen stars in ‘Colewell’ as Nora. \u003ccite>(Gravitas Ventures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he thing about killing the post office, though, is that it kills civic life, too. Not only does Nora lose her sense of identity in \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, the town itself loses its identity. It’s happened in real life, across the country, over and over—particularly after the current administration moved into the White House, where, just blocks away, Washington, D.C.’s former \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Post_Office_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C.jpg/1088px-Old_Post_Office_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crown jewel of a post office\u003c/a> is now a \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumphotels.com/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are sitting in government offices, just making a decision that this town now has no value to the post office or to the federal government,” Allen lamented. “And they literally take away its zip code, take away its post office, and erase it off the map. So the town doesn’t exist anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the agency’s annual reports, throughout \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/91/91024/FY.14.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/94/94403/FY.15.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/98/98467/FY.16.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a>, the USPS permanently shuttered no post offices at all. In 2017, after the election of Donald Trump, the USPS suddenly closed 304 post offices in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And these are towns that are 200 years old and generations and generations of families have lived there,” said Allen. “You have a lot of elderly people left in these towns who depend on the post office as a way to come together, and for there to be a little center in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not as immediately urgent as the upcoming election. But \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>—and especially its final scene—is a reminder that while saving the post office in 2020 means saving our democracy, in the long run, it also means saving the way the mail simply brings people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Colewell’ is available to watch on major streaming services now.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"‘Colewell’ provides a stark, emotional portrait of what happens when the post office disappears.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1705020281,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1149},"headData":{"title":"The Death of the Post Office? 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You’ve studied up on Louis DeJoy, Donald Trump’s recently appointed Postmaster General, who’s \u003ca href=\"https://federalsoup.com/articles/2020/07/16/usps-solvency-plan.aspx#:~:text=First%20off%2C%20Postmaster%20General%20Louis,is%20not%20delivered%20on%20time.&text=%E2%80%9CIf%20the%20plants%20run%20late,remain%20for%20the%20next%20day.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slashed overtime pay\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wk9z/the-post-office-is-deactivating-mail-sorting-machines-ahead-of-the-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed sorting machines\u003c/a>, weakening the post office’s ability to deliver mail on the cusp of an election that, due to a global pandemic, is projected to see a record number of mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13881659\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_.jpg 180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Gabe.Bio_.Cap_.small_-160x181.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, you heard Trump say that nationwide voting by mail would mean “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.” And on Thursday, you heard him \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/13/trump-blurts-out-his-true-motive-blocking-post-office-funding-mail-in-voting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publicly admit\u003c/a> that he won’t provide additional funding to the post office because it would increase the ability to process mail-in ballots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/13/trumps-attack-postal-service-is-now-national-emergency/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national emergency\u003c/a>, no doubt. It’s a personal crisis, as well, for the millions of people who rely on the post office for prescriptions, paychecks, bills and consumer goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, released last year, is a film about none of those things. What it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> about is the hole that’s left when a post office closes in a small rural community. For hundreds of towns across America, these tiny, one-room post office branches serve as community hubs, gathering places, and salves against loneliness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s been this way since the first post office was opened in 1775. It’s an essential part of small-town life that’s dying quickly, as this administration closes \u003ca href=\"https://www.apwu.org/news/249-post-offices-stations-branches-suspension-discontinuance-list-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more and more\u003c/a> post offices nationwide. No other film has captured the loss of it quite as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 582px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13884831\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Allen stars in 'Colewell' as Nora, a postmaster who faces solitude and her own past.\" width=\"582\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater.jpg 582w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.Sweater-160x103.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Allen stars in ‘Colewell’ as Nora, a postmaster who faces solitude and her own past. \u003ccite>(Gravitas Ventures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">“I\u003c/span>n my own life, where I live in the country, going to the post office is how I connect with the people in the little town I live in,” Karen Allen, the star of \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, told me in a visit to KQED upon the film’s 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://sffilm.org/event/colewell/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">premiere\u003c/a> in San Francisco. “It’s where I see people that otherwise I probably wouldn’t see, because we’re sort of spread out in the countryside, and there’s that kind of wonderful conversation that happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen, best known to moviegoers as Indiana Jones’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PlXSw0BQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fierce, action-chasing ex-girlfriend Marion\u003c/a> in \u003cem>Raiders of the Lost Ark\u003c/em>, might seem like an unusual choice to play the film’s lead, Nora. The sixtysomething Nora doesn’t drink anyone under the table, or pull knives on attacking Nazis. Instead, she sips her morning coffee, pulls the rubber band off the morning paper, raises chickens and lives a quiet life of solitude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, until the time comes each morning to open the tiny post office that abuts her house. There, people bring their knitting, their dogs, and their endless stories to Nora, and to each other, daily, among the wood-paneled walls and old combination-dial P.O. boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said the tableau was instantly familiar. “I have a house in a small town in western Massachusetts that has a post office not dissimilar to this post office,” she told me. “A lot of small-town post offices are linked to little stores, or little houses, and the communities are very interwoven with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em> is slow-moving, which befits its rural setting, but it’s carried beautifully by Allen’s emotionally touching portrayal. (The \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em> called it “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-12-05/colewell-review-karen-allen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the performance of a lifetime\u003c/a>.”) Fifteen minutes into the short, 79-minute film, Nora gets a notice that her branch is slated to be closed, setting in motion a series of severance packages, transfer offers, and personal reflection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s then we start to clearly see the pride of purpose in Nora’s countenance when she dons her blue USPS cardigan in the morning, and the plain fact that Nora needs the customers of the post office just as much as they need her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The impending closure also sets up a classic you-can’t-fight-city-hall battle between the residents of Colewell and the district manager in charge of closing its post office. At a town hall meeting, speakers bring up President Nixon making the postal service semi-privatized in the 1970s, and the agency’s challenges in turning a profit in the years since the 2006 bill hobbled its ability to diversify services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sounds a lot like the national discourse about the post office today. Except now, instead of arguing to keep a rural branch open, people are fighting to keep a president and Republican-controlled Senate from openly destroying the postal service in order to rig an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13884829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13884829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-800x430.jpg\" alt=\"Karen Allen stars in 'Colewell' as Nora.\" width=\"800\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-800x430.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-1020x548.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-160x86.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter-768x413.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Colewell.counter.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen Allen stars in ‘Colewell’ as Nora. \u003ccite>(Gravitas Ventures)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he thing about killing the post office, though, is that it kills civic life, too. Not only does Nora lose her sense of identity in \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>, the town itself loses its identity. It’s happened in real life, across the country, over and over—particularly after the current administration moved into the White House, where, just blocks away, Washington, D.C.’s former \u003ca href=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Post_Office_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C.jpg/1088px-Old_Post_Office_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">crown jewel of a post office\u003c/a> is now a \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumphotels.com/washington-dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump Hotel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are people who are sitting in government offices, just making a decision that this town now has no value to the post office or to the federal government,” Allen lamented. “And they literally take away its zip code, take away its post office, and erase it off the map. So the town doesn’t exist anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the agency’s annual reports, throughout \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/91/91024/FY.14.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2014\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/94/94403/FY.15.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2015\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.prc.gov/docs/98/98467/FY.16.ACR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016\u003c/a>, the USPS permanently shuttered no post offices at all. In 2017, after the election of Donald Trump, the USPS suddenly closed 304 post offices in one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And these are towns that are 200 years old and generations and generations of families have lived there,” said Allen. “You have a lot of elderly people left in these towns who depend on the post office as a way to come together, and for there to be a little center in their world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not as immediately urgent as the upcoming election. But \u003cem>Colewell\u003c/em>—and especially its final scene—is a reminder that while saving the post office in 2020 means saving our democracy, in the long run, it also means saving the way the mail simply brings people together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Colewell’ is available to watch on major streaming services now.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/arts/13884826/the-death-of-the-post-office-theres-a-movie-about-that","authors":["185"],"programs":["arts_140"],"categories":["arts_2303","arts_74","arts_990"],"tags":["arts_2767","arts_1753","arts_10342","arts_4949","arts_10278","arts_11850","arts_10564","arts_585"],"featImg":"arts_13884830","label":"source_arts_13884826"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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