What Does Equity In (Fine) Wine Look Like?
The world of fine wine is built on prestige, exclusion, and perceptions of difference making "equity" hard to achieve—but some are trying to do just that.
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The world of fine wine is built on prestige, exclusion, and perceptions of difference making "equity" hard to achieve—but some are trying to do just that.
It's literally reclaiming those lands so we can re-establish those relationships. >> the host of "united shades of america" w. kamau bell joins us now and is also the director of emmy-nominated series "we need to talk about cosby" and the co-author of the new book "do the work, an act activity racist book" which is due out now. so good to talk to you. what exactly is the goal of the land back movement? do the native activists fighting for it, do they real want all of the land that makes up the u.s. put back under additional control? >> i don't frum speak for all of them individually, and i wan...
Ladder, and so to know that there are organizations now taking it upon themselves, right, to promote and to build infrastructure, well, the fact that we're having this conversation right now for television, you know, means we're moving in the right direction. >> yeah. >> w. kamau bell joins us now, so he is also the director of the emmy-nominated series "we need to talk about cosby" and co-author of the "new york times" best-seller "do the work," an anti-racist activity book. you talked about how representation and how important it is and how asians need to have more a seat at the table. tell ...
>> and joining us now to talk more about this is the host of united shades of america, w. kamau bell. can a kamau, thank you so much for joining us. you have "do the work," an anti-racist activity book. you relate to us communities that we may not know have existed. this is a perfect example of that, black americans living in appalachia. why has the culture of this region been so overlooked. >> i think it's about how we tell stories in. this country we tell stories. we focus on the stories of white americans, so appalachia is a case where that's certainly been the case. so even someone like me...
United shades of america, w. kamau bell. he is also the co-author of the new book "do the work, an anti-racist activity book" coming out july 19. hi, kamau. you're diving right in with the first episode tackling two topics distorted in recent history, woke and critical race theory. what inspired that? >> i think i heard them bandied about in ways i did not recognize or understand. you know, this was not an episode i was excited to do. it just felt like, oh, i have to do this. i think i'm the guy who does this, so -- >> felt like it was your duty. >> all right. let's talk about it. >> a sworn d...