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Interview with Neil Aquino. Why I will continue to engage the Right as well as ‘Deplorables.’

March 11, 2021 by egberto

I was honored to appear on Houston activist Neil Aquino’s show, “28 Minutes with Neil Aquino,” on engaging the right and much more.

Another solid Neil Aquino interview

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Aquino asks all the appropriate questions. He is the host of “28 Minutes With Neil Aquino”, an interview program that gives kind and thoughtful people who are doing the work of freedom a place to be heard. The show looks to create new channels and networks of influence and power.

He asked me specifically if I thought my technique of engaging everyone irrespective of their ideology or behavior is worth it or even productive. I told him I am convinced it is. We must first talk to people’s humanity away from their herd.

I don’t know that I convinced Neil, but he listened. His form of activism is always in your face without backing down. The reality is that his form of activism indirectly makes mine more possible.

Visit Aquino’s “28 Minutes with Neil Aquino” page. He interviews a lot of fascinating people, local and otherwise. You can listen to the entire interview he did with me here on Facebook here. I enjoyed every minute of the interview.

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UHD COMM Studies Speaker Event on Fake News & misinformation (Egberto’s Clips)

March 10, 2021 by egberto

I appeared on a virtual panel at the University of Houston Downtown to discuss fake news and misinformation and mitigate it.

Fake news in many forms

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The University of Houston Downtown panel included John Tedesco, Houston Chronicle Investigative Reporter, and Dr. Lucas Logan, Associate professor of Communications Studies, UHD.

The video clip in this post contains my presentation and the answers I gave to questions. The video with the entire panel is here.

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Like It Or Not with Benjamin Dixon & Rebecca Azor interview Politics Done Right’s Egberto Willies.

March 8, 2021 by egberto

I appeared on Like It Or Not with Benjamin Dixon & Rebecca Azor to discuss Senator Joe Manchin holding the Democratic Party hostage to his Conservative shenanigans.

My interview by Julianne Malveaux

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I really enjoyed this interview with both Benjamin Dixon and Rebecca Azor. It was wonderful being on a show that is making a difference in the Progressive space.

You can watch the full 2-hour program that includes the clip in this post The Benjamin Dixon Show.

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Julianne Malveaux interviews Egberto Willies on his book It’s Worth It: How to Talk to Your Right…

March 1, 2021 by egberto

I was honored to appear on Julianne Malveaux WPFW 89.3 FM DC to discuss my new book, It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors, and the CPAC event.

My interview by Julianne Malveaux

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Dr. Julianne Malveaux has long been recognized for her progressive and insightful observations. She is a labor economist, noted author and colorful commentator. Described by Cornel West as “the most iconoclastic public intellectual in the country”. Her contributions to the public dialogue on issues such as race, culture, gender and their economic impacts are shaping public opinion in 21st Century America.

Dr. Malveaux’s popular writing has appeared in USA Today. Black Issues in Higher Education, Ms. Magazine, Essence magazine and many others. Her weekly columns appeared through King Features syndicate for more than a decade (1990 – 2003) in newspapers across the country including the LA Times, Charlotte Observer, the New Orleans Tribune, Detroit Free Press, and San Francisco Examiner. She has hosted television and radio programs – and appeared widely as commentator on networks including CNN, BET, PBS, NBC,ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, TV One, C-SPAN and others. Currently, she writes a weekly column for NNPA (the National black press syndicate).

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President-Elect Joe Biden addresses the nation on his COVID-19 stimulus plan.

January 14, 2021 by egberto

President-Elect Joe Biden gave a primetime address to the nation to detail his COVID-19 Stimulus Plan that includes $2000 for each American adult.

President-Elect Joe Biden details COVID-19 Stimulus

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The New York Times reported Joe Biden’s stimulus as follows.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday proposed a $1.9 trillion rescue package to combat the economic downturn and the Covid-19 crisis, outlining the type of sweeping aid that Democrats have demanded for months and signaling the shift in the federal government’s pandemic response as Mr. Biden prepares to take office.
The package includes more than $400 billion to combat the pandemic directly, including money to accelerate vaccine deployment and to safely reopen most schools within 100 days. Another $350 billion would help state and local governments bridge budget shortfalls, while the plan would also include $1,400 direct payments to individuals, more generous unemployment benefits, federally mandated paid leave for workers and large subsidies for child care costs.
“During this pandemic, millions of Americans, through no fault of their own, have lost the dignity and respect that comes with a job and a paycheck,” Mr. Biden said in a speech to the nation. “There is real pain overwhelming the real economy.”
He acknowledged the high price tag but said the nation could not afford to do anything less. “The very health of our nation is at stake,” Mr. Biden said, adding that it “does not come cheaply, but failure to do so will cost us dearly.”

Joe Biden slams Donald Trump about the Capitol insurrection in speech.

January 7, 2021 by egberto

Joe Biden let Donald Trump have it in his latest speech, where he made it clear that Donald Trump bears responsibility for the insurrection.

Joe Biden excoriates Trump

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Too many underestimate Joe Biden. Anyone who believes he would be a Trump apologizer is sadly mitaken. Over the last several weeks he has not let up on the failed president.

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Politics Done Right 2020 End Of Year Zoom Chat

January 2, 2021 by egberto

A few Politics Done Right listeners & members participated in our End of Year Zoom chat. We learned a lot about each other and America.

PDR Zoom Chat

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A few of our Politics Done Right (PDR) users used this End of Year Chat to introduce themselves to the group for the first time. It was exciting to meet everyone in virtual-person.

The PDR audience comes from various backgrounds. We showed that we shared a common interest: to make a better America by talking to each other, not necessarily to make reflections of ourselves but an understanding among people.

This is attainable if we use that biblical concept of fishers of people. Respectful engagement always bears some fruit. That these people spent their evening on this chat shows us all that many are willing to engage

On a personal note, this was the first Zoom of this type for Politics Done Right and it meant a lot to actually virtually see and touch those I interact with as we broadcast the program on a daily basis. It was very rewarding in so many ways.

I will make this a mainstay of the program as long as people are willing to show up. Thank you all for being a part of the PDR Posse.

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We need a different take on racism to beat back Trumpism.

December 6, 2020 by egberto

We will defeat Trumpism if we neutralize the most powerful tool it has, racism. There are techniques we can use now.

Thought on Trumpism vs. Racism

Recently Conservative columnist David Brooks wrote the following piece titled “The Rotting of the Republican Mind,” which contains some important points. While I am not a fan of David Brooks, he says how things are and not what they should or what we hope they would be.

Here is the interesting thing about the article. Nowhere in it is the word race mentioned. That will concern many, given that a part of the Republican technique is to use race as a tool to ensure even as they have bad policies, they get the vote of those they hurt.

Please listen to the entire video in this post and then give me your thoughts. It was a segment in one of our recent Politics Done Right shows.

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This young lady’s lack of empathy explains the Right-Wing well

December 3, 2020 by egberto

A friend sent me the following post. One can only believe what she is saying if we discount the conditions of a large swath of Americans. Sadly, few will see her severe lack of empathy.

A severe lack of empathy

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Just the setup of this woman’s first few sentences shows how naive she is. She is sitting at a coffee shop watching others with their MacBook and ordering from Amazon. That is her reality. She has seen prosperity. Good for her. Please read the entire post.

When 40% of Americans cannot endure a $400 unexpected expense, that is a different reality.

Yes, Capitalism has worked for a good percentage, not most. Hell, I have done great by Capitalism and made a lot of money using its tenets in the past, though this new profession has zapped most of it as a full-time activist.

When one becomes introspective and the morals many of us Progressives grew up with kicked in, it was not difficult to see the dire straits that many Americans are living in, not as we lived it but how our brothers and sisters in Appalachia, the Ghettos, the Barrios, and rural areas are living. Worse is how the Right lies to them and indoctrinate too many of them to vote against their own interests by using smoke and mirrors.

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And then a privileged woman like this comes along and tells those who are suffering, ‘things at my Coffee Shop are simply fine.’

The lack of empathy and inability to see outside one’s own conditions is sad in this country. That is why Progressives do what we do.

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Trump & Georgia Senators slammed by Sec. of State official Gabriel Sterling – unanswered threats

December 1, 2020 by egberto

Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling slammed Donald Trump and the two Georgia Senators for not calling out those threatening officials.

Gabriel Sterling is fed up.

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The cards are starting to fall. Just maybe many of Trump’s enablers and sycophants will jump off of the sinking ship. Will the Georgia senators grow a spine? Doubtful.

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