Redefining Allyship, Power, and What Democracy Really Means | Native Land Pod

This week hosts Tiffany Cross, Angela Rye, and Andrew Gillum define our democracy (what’s left of it).

Nowadays it’s popular to say that the USA is a “democracy in decline.” But what does that actually mean when for many of us the system has been failing! Our hosts identify specific areas where our democracy has crumbled and begin to answer the question: exactly HOW and WHY has our democracy failed? This will be an ongoing conversation, and we’d love your input, send us a video!

Speaking of ongoing conversations, we hear your pushback to this idea that we ought to stand in solidarity with migrants. In a video we received, one of y’all was also questioning the idea that there could ever be self-sufficient communities for Black and Brown folks. We’ll play that video so the hosts can respond to your criticism. We love being in conversation with y’all, even when we disagree!

We invite you to think radically, consult your local communities, and imagine how our democracy can be salvaged–or completely reconstructed??

If you’d like to submit a question or statement, check out our tutorial videoand send to @nativelandpod.

Check out the research paper Angela mentioned on the Trump admin’s immigration policies and their impact on Black migrants

Find out more about the State of the People tour

We are 523 days away from the midterm elections. Welcome home y’all!

We want to hear from you! Send us a video @nativelandpod and we may feature you on the podcast.

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Thank you to the Native Land Pod team:

Angela Rye as host, executive producer, and cofounder of Reasoned Choice Media; Tiffany Cross as host and producer, Andrew Gillum as host and producer, and Gabrielle Collins as executive producer; Loren Mychael and Jabari Davis are our research producers, and Nikolas Harter is our editor and producer. Thank you to Mark Cantin and Dylan Unger of the iHeart Video team and producing engineer Abu Zafar. A special thanks as well to Chris Morrow and Lenard McKelvey, co-founders of Reasoned Choice Media.

Theme music created by Daniel Laurent.