Episode 816 | We Wish You Would Broker the Convention | Dark Arts of Media Propaganda | Malcolm X

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 4:05 p.m.

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Episode 816 |

The Democratic Party is considering a brokered convention. This is all the media is talking about at this point. As we stated yesterday, the reason they're talking about it now so much is because if they can make you desensitized to the idea, they win.

This is why we are organizing now!

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Propaganda is an unbelievable dark art form. The most insidious type that we see through the media is the art of making you believe that you made a decision on your own when, in reality, you made one of the decisions they prepared for you. Let's discuss what you have to do to be able to sort through someone who is trying to help you make a decision on your own and someone who is using propaganda techniques to give you your opinion.

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Malcolm X was assassinated 55 years ago today. Every year I honor a man who shaped me in more ways than I can describe. Specifically, Malcolm shaped me because he was a person not afraid of evolution -- he evolved. The humanity inside of Malcolm demanded that he evolved into someone who would fight on behalf of all people.

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More on Malcolm X and why his legacy is so important in 2020.

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Andrew Yang is now a commentator on CNN. His first order of business? Attack Bernie Sanders. I
knew he wasn't an ally from the beginning.

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Can you trust me?

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Ossie Davis' eulogy of Malcolm X: "Our Living Black Manhood."