know how they manipulate [ bleep ]. nikki, congratulations. even though miley tried to chalk it up to press manipulation, the fans held her to it as well. fans responded with comment after comment all saying one thing. miley, what s good? joining me now to help answer that question are brittney cooper, assistant professor of women s and gender studies at rutgers. jamie killstein. and a coproducer of the documentary bad rap. so you stand there in the blonde locks, in the full appropriation of black womanhood absolutely. what is good? let me tell you something, nicki minaj is my she-ro. she told miley bow down in the words of beyonce and miley
i m just saying, like it is not you don t know real that is. like it s a new thing. so i m wondering how does hip-hop more broadly speak back to the american political sure. one of the things that disappointed me about the moment though it s the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina and he doesn t say anything about katrina. he doesn t say anything. so that that s the thing that makes me take him less seriously. but you re right. we have to think of how the hip-hop generation is going to figure in the 2016 elections. is that is it on the same terms as those who are part of the black lives matter movement or is this something separate? i think he gave the black lives matter one of the more important strategies, i ll let you finish, right. when they jump off bernie sanders they re doing their kanye thing. that s right. look, what he s ushered in is disruptive black politics is the order of the day. it s not going away. it gets a lot of traction. i think that s very imp
what is the right body for change. right? so part of what i m wondering, even if we could get to now we decided this is a national emergency, we must do something about it, is it government policy or corporate culture that is the thing that we think must change? yeah. i totally agree with you. i had children in the 90s, but it occupies so much of your mind space, you drop off your child and cry to work, which i used to do. it occupies so much of your life that it does make life harder. but then you have that s when you have education and a spouse yes. that s working and bringing in income and you re trying to figure this out. a, you have people who believe that the governments shouldn t create on-site day care. that it increases the cost of doing business. you have the libertarian ethic that you can t make the government do it. so we re sort of in a no win
so how do you assess this idea that the thing, the narrative now is about who she actually is? yeah. as opposed to what she did or didn t do? i mean, i think after 30 something years of experience with the clintons where it has been sort of, you know, gate after gate after gate after gate, people do have a built-in skepticism of everything they do. you see how quickly she pivoted to her talking points. i think she contributes to it in a sense that hillary clinton is an attorney. she kind of sounds like one when she speaks. she doesn t talk about emotion. she pivots right to such carefully produced talking points. she so careful. i think she s trying not to make so many mistakes and she has been parsed so much from what she wears, to whether she took her husband s last name. she s a carefully stage managed person that people are getting that perception of her because of her performance. we saw that in the black lives matter with young people. you have to change policy. i don t
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