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Cliff Notes: Is The American Political System Rooted In White Supremacy?

Sep 15, 20248 min
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In this eye-opening clip of the EYL series, we host a hard-hitting debate featuring Congressman Jamaal Bowman and Whitley Yates. This candid conversation dives deep into complex issues, such as U.S. foreign policy, the exploitation of child labor in African nations, and the role of white supremacy within American political systems.


Congressman Jamaal Bowman lays out his views on how both Republican and Democratic parties have been complicit in supporting white supremacist ideologies and elaborates on how current foreign policies might perpetuate systemic inequalities. He argues that the U.S. support for Israel contributes to a genocide recognized by international courts and raises concerns about child labor in the Congo and Coltan mining, emphasizing that African nations don't benefit from the wealth generated by these resources.


Whitley Yates, on the other hand, challenges Bowman by scrutinizing his voting record and the broader actions of his party. She asserts that both parties, albeit primarily the Democrats, have failed to address the issues that affect the Black community despite relying heavily on their votes. Yates provides a historical perspective, mentioning that many initiatives beneficial to minority communities, such as the Small Business Administration, were actually initiated by Republicans. She critiques the Democrats for promising change but delivering little substantive policy to improve the lives of Black Americans.


Throughout the debate, Bowman emphasizes the need for continued organization and efforts to oppose white supremacy, highlighting the Democrats’ support for Social Security, Medicare, and other initiatives aiding marginalized communities. He also calls for further advances in key areas like reparations and justice in policing.


Yates counters by noting her personal experience living in major cities governed by Democrats, pointing out that the conditions in these areas often deteriorate despite repeated promises of improvement. She contends that the Democratic Party has historically used the Black community’s support to maintain power while offering minimal tangible benefits in return.


This clip is filled with passionate arguments and thought-provoking insights that will leave you questioning the role of political parties in perpetuating systemic issues and the genuine steps required to create meaningful change.


Tune in for this riveting debate that promises to shed light on critical social and political issues affecting not just the Black community, but the entire nation.


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Transcript

Speaker 1

And again we still have a foreign policy when we're sending billions of dollars a year to Israel to support a genocide, not just in my opinion but according to an international courts. But we also have a foreign policy that supports child migrants in uh the Congo mining cobalt with their hands, that supports all of our technology and they're not getting the financial benefits of that. We also have a feign policy support their mining coal.

Speaker 2

T that must be what you're talking about.

Speaker 1

Thank you very much. I appreciate that, thank you, even though I still think it might be cobalt. But that's fine, Black children using their hands in their African country mining raw materials that the West, meaning white people, bull meaning Trump's white supremacy is using to build wealth and African nations are on benefit of that, benefiting from that. So

that's again connected to our foreign policies all funked up. Listen, the American political system is rooted in white supremacy, and we on the ground locally and nationally need to continue organized to push against that.

Speaker 2

So that's been a part of it. Are you a part of white supremacy in black face? And your position in Congress? Because of the matter is you and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden and a lot of these politicians who have been in office for decades. Kamala Harris has been doing this for twenty one plus years, almost older than me.

Speaker 1

Not in Congress.

Speaker 2

Hold up, Hold up, listen, listen. Joe Biden has definitely been there longer.

Speaker 1

Been talking about Biden, we're.

Speaker 2

Talking about the system. I thought we were just talking about the system we are. Second, let me finish black man, black man. You have voted to send that money over there. You have hold on, you have voted let me finish that, finish blaming my time. You have voted and been a part of a party that upholds, built, cultivated, and created these systems. Dare I even say perfected them? Dare I

even say perfected them? And so to sit here and to say that our political system is all of these things when you're in it right now, when a lot of the people that we see coming across our screens and creating the policy have been there for decades. At the end of the day, whether or not Trump is polished or not, because he's been doing this for four years versus the person that's been doing it for twenty one or before y'all. Oh, no, reverse biten up out

of there. Who has been doing it for multiple decades. They uphold all of it. And your party in particular, has been one who has created policies that have negatively impacted people that look like me and you while sending that money overseas. So I'm just trying to understand. If it's rooted in white supremacy, then are you a white supremacist in black face that's upholding these structures.

Speaker 1

So again, you obviously don't know me and don't know my record to even be talking to people.

Speaker 2

The firal alarm. You lost your election, and now you're sitting outside in DC after having a couple of drinks at an event we were just at, i know, spending his time with our lovely audience. I'd say at that, thank you absolutely.

Speaker 1

And that's besides the point that last point you just said. But anyway, the Republican and the Democratic Party have both been complicit in supporting white supremacist ideology. So let's be

clear about that. In my opinion, the Democrats still have done more to support working class people and marginalized people in our cont For example, we continue to support social Security, we continue to support Medicare, we continue to support the Department of Education and other federal offices that serve the most marginalized people. I still want the party to go further with issues like reparations, with issues like the George Floyd Justice and Policing Act, and many other issues. So

I just want to be clear about that. Republicans, in my opinion, this modern day Republican Party. And I'm talking about one hundred years ago, twenty years ago, talking about Monday Republican Party. When I pulled that fire alarm, to use your example, they tried to paint me as one of the insurrectionists from January sixth. That was crazy. They have no policies or very little that support the upliftment

of our communities. Whether it's affordable housing, whether it's childcare, whether it's paid lead, whether it's entrepreneurship, whether it's reparations. None of that that's party support. And so the system has to change.

Speaker 2

Oh Gas, like us, right, I don't talk about don't talk about the things that you guys support when you know that your party wasn't the one that created them. Like, how dare you say that Republicans don't support small or minority businesses who cultivated wrote the bill for the Small Business Administration to be an administration for the AA program, which provides those no bid contracts for businesses like mine to be able to work with the federal government in

the way that we're able to work with them. That was a Republican that wrote that bill. There was a Republican that started the Small Business Administration, and the programs that are predicated from the Small Business Administration once again founded by Republicans. So you can't say that you're supporting these things when the inception of those policies, the exception of Social Security, and the inception of all of these

things were predicated by Republicans. But what I will say is that both parties do need to do a better job when it comes to tending to the issues of black people and speaking to issues of black people. Absolutely. The problem that we have here is only one of those parties relies on the black community to stay in

positions of power for decades, only one of them. Only one of those parties promises things every election year, year after year, the exact same things, and produces absolutely no policies for their communities and I live in a very blue city that was in a red state. I may be in DC right now, but I understand how this works. I used to also live in California when Kamala Harris was my senator, and she was also my Attorney general. So I've lived under the rule of both Democrats and Republicans.

And what I will say and what I can say is, in some of the largest cities that are ran by blue and I'm talking super majority, the entire council is blue. The mayor is a Democrat. The areas that we live in look the worst, and they rely on us year after year to give them our vote in exchange for

absolutely nothing. So at the end of the day, if anybody owes the black community anything, whether that be policy, whether that be reparations, it is definitely the party that excuse our backs to get ahead.

Speaker 3

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Speaker 2

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