Can't believe we're already at season four, but here goes: It's time to talk about "Partner's Complaint," this week on Morgendorks! When the rift between Daria and Jane—you know, the one we thought was smoothed over at the end of last season—drives them to partner up with other people for an economics project, our B-Plot Gang gets some much-needed airtime. Parts of this one are stunningly relevant even twenty years later, and it's worth checking out.
And for our cultural context this week, we spend some (nowhere near enough, because that podcast would never actually end) time talking about systemic racism—that rotten chunk of the societal bedrock designed specifically to make life harder and less prosperous for one entire section of the population.
If you're out there protesting, if you're contributing, if you're having the difficult conversations, if you're donating, if you're voting for people who will put an end to the bullshit: Thank you. Please keep the pressure on. <3
If you'd like to donate but aren't sure where to start, New York Magazine's got a list of 115 organizations that may or may not help. The Minneapolis-based organization Reclaim the Block also put together this Google Doc of places to donate.
Links:
UC Berkeley | Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era
Business Insider | This Chart Showing The Gap Between Black And White Life Expectancy Should Be A National Embarrassment
Ijeoma Oluo | So You Want to Talk About Race (Amazon)
Outpost Daria Reborn
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