Not so random. I did a film recently. RECENTLY. When negotiating pay, I found out that B/C/D list white actresses, for the same work, on another network were getting 3 X WHAT I GOT. Same work. Similiar storyline. But THEY, WW (in my similiar celeb status) still got 3X more.

So when we talk about the racial/gender wealth gap & how much Black Americans have lost out on....yeah. It’s a LOT. And even in the gender wage gap, WW while still making less than WM, still make WAY MORE than BW/WOC. I bring that up bcuz, when I think about how much Black ppl...

...have lost out on, in our lifetimes, it’s so much. So so much. In every career, every education level...from the time we are born until the day we die.

That’s housing, education, statistics show that while BW are the most educated/we are promoted THE LEAST, health care, self care, childhood activities...hell, travel. We love talking about passport twitter but the reality is ppl are BROKE. And that’s across the board. One of...

...my fave lines from Atlanta was when that WM who loved AA & African cultures, smugly asked Donald why he’d never been to the Continent & Donald looked at him & said...I’m broke. Like, yes.

So knowing all of this, this ep is really powerful. This woman, not only breaks down Black voting patterns of like the last 100 yrs (by gender and age) she also explains (we already know) why the Black vote is as powerful as it is. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1081584611?i=1000490309867

One of the things she brought up was, how George Floyd, when he was killed ALREADY HAD COVID IN HIS LUNGS. AND, he was in the city he was in TO FIND WORK. So before police even killed him, he already had Covid & was in need of work. And this is normal. Being Black in this...

...knowing that ‘if it ain’t one thing, it’s another’...LITERALLY. And this is normal. Just fine. They also go into *why* Black Americans vote like we do. Ppl love being paternalistic about Black voters like we as a people haven’t jumped from party to party BECAUSE we are...

...literally fighting for our lives. Policy matters. I’ve been thinking this whole time (my own ignorance which is why I love podcasts that break Black history down like this) that Black Voters fled the Repub party in the 60’s w/ the CRA/VRA, but NO. They started fleeing...

...in mass numbers with the New Deal in the 40’s. Why??? Because it was racist as shit & uplifted white Americans while Black Americans got NOTHING. So let’s talk pragmatic okay??? No one votes more than us and that shit is for a reason. But folks talking about us like...

...we’re dumb. Need saving or need to be told whom/what to vote for. No that’s YA’LL. The ep also goes into how Black Americans, particularly BW are THE MOST RELIGIOUSN GROUP IN THE COUNTRY but will NEVER (as a group) vote Repub because of their racism. Black voters are the...

...smartest and most reliable voters in this country and I’m willing to die on that hill. And history PROVES this. Cause we have & have always had THE MOST to lose.

And yes...YES we still have a long way to go. Yes we’ve been screwed over. Yes voter apathy is real & a direct result of all of the unseen, uncredited labor Black activists & organizers have been doing for centuries. And still...you will not win without whose vote? That’s right.