McConnell Looks Ahead; Making It in America; Race Legacy of the Southern Baptist Convention; Citizens and Native Americans
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 19, 2017
Jamil Smith fills in for Brian all week. On today's show you'll hear:
- Joan Walsh, MSNBC political analyst and national affairs correspondent for The Nation, and Ana Marie Cox, host of the podcast With Friends Like These, founder of the blog Wonkette, and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, discuss what's next for the GOP health bill.
- As President Trump is touting his "Made In America" week, Drew Harvell, national business reporter at The Washington Post, talks about the challenges American companies face when trying to manufacture goods here, and hire workers here, plus listeners share what American goods their companies make.
- Lawrence Ware, co-director of the Africana Studies Program at Oklahoma State University, discusses his recent New York Times op-ed that explains his decision to leave the Southern Baptist Convention and how the 2016 election unearthed a legacy of racial intolerance that propelled him to speak out.
- Native Americans have been recognized as citizens since 1924. As we explore the U.S. Constitution and whose interests it serves, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, scholar and activist, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States and co-author of "All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Beacon Press, 2016) and Adrienne Keene, assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University who writes the Native Appropriations blog, talks about the contradictions inherent in being U.S. citizens and belonging to separate sovereign nations.
