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Boots Riley exposes racism through satire · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  they use a kind of Karen type character- That's right, to overreact to the
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  Black men fighting- and that that is the ultimate distraction that, like
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  allows them to become invisible.
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Thursday, July 2nd.
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  And so Boots Riley doesn't have to say, "Oh, look at how racism
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  works in America right now." It's just completely understood
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  That's from the Labor Heritage Power Hour on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  Network, laborradionetwork.org.
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  Two o'clock this afternoon right here on WPFW 89.3 FM. In today's labor history, on
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  this date in 1964, President Johnson ti-
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  of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding employers and unions from
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  discriminating on the basis of race, color, gender, nationality, or religion.
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  Today's labor quote is by Barack Obama, who said, "Because of the civil rights
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  movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody.
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  Not just for Blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos, and Asians, and
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  Native Americans, and gay Americans, and Americans with a disability.
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  They swung open for you, and they swung open for me.
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  And that's why I'm standing here today.
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  Because of those efforts.
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  Because of that legacy."
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  Support for the Labor Radio Podcast Daily comes from Union
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  Plus, a nonprofit organization founded by the AFL-CIO in 1986.
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  More information at unionplus.org.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.