Florida This Week talks upcoming primary; Listeners respond to escalating violence at Trump rallies.

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A Donald Trump supporter brought his painted elephant to the Sarasota rally. By Kimberly DeFalco. 2015 Nov 28.

By Rob Lorei

Today on Radioactivity we listen to WEDU’s Florida this week, a political talk show hosted by Rob Lorei on Friday nights. In this episode political experts from across the state discuss the hottest stories in Florida politics: The final campaign push by several presidential candidates before the primary elections on Tuesday,  the Legislature rejects the governor’s priorities in passing the new budget,  more abortion restrictions are passed in Tallahassee, and women’s groups are opposing proposed changes to state alimony laws.

Then we open up the phone lines for listeners to discuss the increasing outbreaks of violence at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies. Brawls between protesters and Trump supporters have marked his most recent stops, including an event in Chicago cancelled due to safety concerns that devolved into a melee that led to arrests and left dozens injured.

One Response to “Florida This Week talks upcoming primary; Listeners respond to escalating violence at Trump rallies.”

  1. Deborah Woeckner Saavedra

    Hi Rob
    Thank you so much for creating this space for differing views, for facilitating and moderating this forum…it is essential and insanely frustrating at once.

    A few things–the black lives matter activists were direct, honest, and spoke their truth, that is the issue here, we must realize that each of us has our own version of “truth” based on our identity and how that either vibes with our against all of the slanted and skewed systems that are designed to support racism and white supremacy. the dude who said, earn, earn, earn, has not walked a hundred miles in another brother or sister of different skin color, sexual orientation, religion, or language/ethnic origin…

    THE SCHOOL TEACHER FOR TRUMP MADE ME ALMOST VOMIT. He is a good man?!?!?!? He has the experience???!?!? He has already proven himself?!? OMGSo many articles have come out discussing his business failures and his unethical practices. go to democracynow.org and see the rhetoric between Cornel West and Dolores Huerta, each supporting different democratic candidates, they preface their disagreement with calling each other brother, sister, and speaking from a place of LOVE. Trump is hatred, he references the size ofhis manhood at a republican debate?!?! Get us out of the moral ditch, please, he is all slime and ooze and vibrates on the lowest vibration of anger…his way is pure destruction and ignorance. He is a demagogue. He is in it for the power and control. He who wants to build a wall, himself profitted from undocumented immigrants building many of his high rises. He wants the rules to not apply to him. He is while male patriarchy sexist privilege in action.

    Connecting the dots, the reason Ben Carson would endorse Trump is because he is affluent, and a “negropean” someone with black skin but whose mind has been internally oppressed with white beauty standards, and the subconscious self hatred of self. Like you asked the caller, do you think Ben Carson represents the norm for African Americans? House slaves vs field slaves is the terminology in the academic literature.

    Jarrell really upset me, trying to get the sisters from Black lives matter to tone it down,that isheterosexual privilege speaking there, and the way that black people have been told for decades, if you act white, dress white, abandon your culture…we will accept you. Nope. You can be our friends, we can work with you, go to the same church, but don’t try to marry one of our daughters. That is the white man–see Dr. Francis Kress-Welsing’s work here–and his paranoia, he is but 25% of the world population, outnumbered by brown, red, yellow, black people–trying to preserve the recessive genes in his gene pool. Jarrell, unfortunately has “just get along” with the white man disease…worried about those “uppity niggas” (in the black vernacular) asking for too much, demanding too much dignity, too much respect, and the gall to ask for equity?!?!

    The most rational and compassionate caller today was Carlos. In response to what do the Black Lives Matter activists want, Democracy Now (democracynow.org) did a piece that interviewed one of the national leaders, and the fact that they have delayed endorsing a candidate, wanting the presidential prospects to better articulte the ways that they would dismantly unjust and unequal education, legal, prison, economic systems that control and constrain our opportunities to work together peacefully and in prosperity.

    We all have a role to play and all must look in the mirror and view the ways we shape the world around us and are shaped by it reciprocally.

    PEACE!
    Najirrah aka

    THANK you so much for opening this dialogue. I could go on, but the termination of my doctoral dissertation on “Latino Artist Educators in Miami and their Role in Creating and Sustaining Alternative Democratic Spaces,” is staring me down.
    Other alternative radio sources TruthDig, Common Sense, Daily Kos, etc.

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