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Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR)

Let’s Talk About Race (LTAR), is a new intergenerational, roundtable discussion of independent national journalists featuring rigorous conversations and analysis of news coverage and the role race plays in politics, government, economy, education, and health. LTAR currently airs on KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR, and on Pacifica Radio Network

LTAR brings independent journalists from all over the country from New Jersey to Texas and Pennsylvania with a home base in Portland, Oregon. The hosts bring their own flavor, journalistic perspectives, and integrity.

The roundtable line-up features: LaNita Duke, an award-winning audio and video producer who has written, directed, and produced political news and commentary for Grassroots NW and KBOO Radio for over 45 years. Dianne Johnson, a journalist from Texas co-host/musicologist on From the Grassroots, a political news magazine. Althea Billings, current News Director at KBOO Community Radio. Cecil Prescod is a talk-show host addressing local, national, and international issues ranging from poverty in Portland to politics in Africa. Nia Gray, host and blogger of The Faith Report in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And Mary Li is the Director of the Multnomah Idea Lab (MIL) at the Multnomah County Department of County Human Services in Portland Oregon

Welcome to another edition of LTAR.: Midterm Madness or relief

Our Panel deconstructs the 2022 midterm

The predicted red wave turned into a splash because young people, democrats and People of color voted

And we knew sometime was different because of what happened in PA-our faith reporter Nia gray was live on the ground.

You are listening to LTAR-Midterm madness or midterm relief

One Right wing talking point was the inability of blue states to solve inflation ,homelessness crime . Can progressive and democrats solve these issues ?

Should we celebrate or be cautious ?

Previously on -Stop AAPI hate: On March 16 2021 eight human beings were murdered by a 21-year-old white male.

Six of the victims were of Asian descent, and two were white. Seven were women.

The authorities have identified those killed in the attacks as Soon Chung Park, 74; Hyun Jung Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; Yong Ae Yue, 63; Delaina Ashley Yaun, 33; Xiaojie Tan, 49; Daoyou Feng, 44; and Paul Andre Michels, 54. Elcias R. Hernandez-Ortiz, 30, was seriously injured

And American is in shock, again and this is leading to another Racial Reckoning in America-STOP AAPI Hate

Between March 19 and December 31, 2020, there were more than 2,808 “firsthand accounts of anti-Asian hate,” according to a report by Stop AAPI Hate, an organization that has been tracking reports on anti-Asian violence — a 150 percent rise since 2019. From being barred from establishments to being spat or coughed on, Asian Americans have reported physical and verbal harassment throughout the pandemic, and Asian Americans have been a xenophobic scapegoat for the spread of a virus that originated in China. According to one survey conducted last April, 32 percent of Americans have “witnessed someone blaming Asian people” for Covid-19, and 60 percent of Asian Americans have witnessed this behavior.

These attacks may have been spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and then-President Donald Trump repeatedly using racist terms for the virus, but anti-Asian sentiment in the United States is not new;the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese immigrants from becoming US citizens, and President Franklin Roosevelt’s executive order in 1942 that put Japanese Americans into internment camps

Revolutionary Love and Radical Imagination is the way forward according to Mary Li from Portland Oregon as a guest on LTAR: Another Racial Reckoning in America. And Ed Bird Song, Community college professor and counseling chair&