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The Morning Report

The Morning Report

By: Willie Lawson
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 The Morning is a podcast that bring a viewpoint that is different and unique.

Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-morning-report--7349720/support.Copyright Willie Lawson Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • The Erasure of Black American by Terms

    The Erasure of Black American by Terms
    6 Nov 2026
    Not invisible. Dissolved. Invisibility would mean Black people vanish from the picture. This is subtler — Black people stay in the picture, but they disappear as the subject of the sentence. Watch what the swap does in practice:The claim gets averaged. A disparity that belongs to one specific people gets restated as a gap for a whole category — and the category's numbers are padded by families earning two and three times as much. The emergency gets statistically smaller without a single Black family's life changing.The money gets rerouted. Programs, grants, and set-asides written for "people of color" or "minorities" are spent across the whole umbrella. The check is written to the category, not to the descendants of the people the original claim was about.The story gets retitled. An event that happens specifically to Black Americans gets headlined as something happening to "people of color" — and the sympathy, the policy, and the remedy all get aimed at the blur instead of the people.The votes get managed by the coalition. Inside the umbrella, Black voters are the most loyal bloc — but the umbrella's agenda gets set by whoever runs the coalition, and it gets spent on the newest arrivals, because the loyal ones are assumed captured.So why POC instead of Black? Because "Black" names a specific people with a specific, expensive claim on this country — and a specific claim can't be shared, averaged, or redirected. "People of color" can. That's the function. Invisible, no. Submerged — one people, underwater, inside a category built to hold everybody but answer to nobody.

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    6 min
  • We Were Kings

    We Were Kings
    5 Oct 2026
    Because if the answer to every criticism of our present condition is to point backward and talk about what somebody who looked like us accomplished hundreds of years ago, then history has stopped being an inspiration and started becoming a hiding place. We begin using old glory to excuse present failure, and once that happens, the past becomes less useful, not more.That is what I mean when I say inherited glory is worthless if it becomes an excuse to avoid present responsibility.I can respect what somebody built a thousand years ago and still ask what we are building now. I can admire an ancient kingdom and still ask what kind of schools we are running today. I can appreciate a great ruler from history and still ask why we tolerate incompetent leadership now. I can celebrate the accomplishments of Black people who came before us and still ask whether we are producing strong families, safe communities, educated children, successful businesses, and responsible adults today.

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    10 min
  • Polls Don't Vote - People Do

    Polls Don't Vote - People Do
    25 Sep 2026
    Political polling can tell us something about public opinion, but polls do not cast ballots and they do not determine election results. They are snapshots taken at a particular moment, and even experienced pollsters face the difficult task of estimating who will actually turn out to vote.So instead of spending October obsessing over who's supposedly three points ahead or four points behind, we're going to concentrate on what voters can actually control: checking registration, reviewing the ballot, knowing where and when to vote, understanding the issues, making a voting plan, and following through.A favorable poll is not a reaso

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    14 min
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