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After this racist twitter post that led to abc canceling her hit show. it was actually a tweet storm. her story is not the only one involving race that made headlines yesterday. starbucks also shut its doors early to conduct mandatory training. that was weeks after two black american were arrested at this philadelphia starbucks while they waited for a friend. joining us to discuss our cultural critic and writer mikaela angela davis and author of tears we cannot stop michael eric dyson. michael, i will start with you. how do you see everything that unfolded with roseanne in the past 12 hours? it is an index of the trump era of race. bigotry substitutes for insight, conspiracy subconstitutes for knowledge. it is coupled with white power to produce an ugly mix, a cockta cocktail, if you will, of tremendous ignorance about the history of race and about the ....
Bottom line seems to be the ultimate litmus test of what is acceptable or not, was trumped by a moral perspective. we re on a path at least to wrestle with these problems. to that last point, mikaela, you look at all the problems that michael laid out there. you look at this as primarily a hopefulful moment. i have to. it is so complicated and hurt l hurtful. at least we are having a public conversation about it. our parents, grand parents suffered in dignities that are unspeakable. and corporations and ceos weren t having conversations. we have monuments to nameless people killed by other americans with no justice. so this is a good start. it s worth a start. it s worth starbucks. it s worth abc to at least try. so i have to find some hope in it. this is new, right? this idea of having townhalls and shutting down doors, it s ....