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Whose Freedom? Whose America? | Rethinking Freedom with Aya Fubara Eneli

16,292 refugees were admitted to the United States this year. 16,287 came from South Africa, overwhelmingly white Afrikaners. Five came from the rest of the world. Five.

A viral post says “I didn’t vote for Trump, I voted for America,” then lists the freedoms it believes are being protected: free speech, secure borders, the Second Amendment, the police, religious liberty, the troops, the children. In this episode, attorney and author Aya Fubara Eneli tests every line of that post against the record, the law and American history.

Not the slogans. The record.

In this episode:

Seventy-five court rulings against this administration on First Amendment rights, journalists arrested, and churches suing to keep ICE out of the sanctuary
Christian nationalism, the Doctrine of Discovery, and Frederick Douglass’s “two Christianities”
Who America welcomes and who it cages: TPS terminations, racial profiling, for-profit detention, record deaths in custody, children at Dilley, Texas, and taxpayers arrested at their green card interviews
The Second Amendment’s actual text, its color line, and school shootings
Dropped police consent decrees and January 6th pardons
An unlawful war on Iran, a widow told it’s “not a war,” and a senator barred from a U.S. base
The Electoral College, voter suppression, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act
How this Supreme Court was built, and who it serves
The $183 million anti-trans ad blitz, and what it’s meant to distract you from
The lies all of us have imbibed, whatever our race, class, gender, religion or party

Freedom that is reserved for some is not freedom. It is privilege.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Examine the record, examine who benefits and who pays, and vote. Check your registration and polling place at VoteTexas.gov or your county elections office.

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