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“Inside the System”: A Black Federal Worker on Trump, DEI Backlash, Voting & “White Pomposity”
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What happens when a career federal public servant spends decades working across administrations—and then lives through the Trump era from the inside? In this episode of Behind the Story, Jelani sits down with Deric A. Gilliard, author of The Longest Four Years of My Life, for a candid, wide-ranging conversation on leadership, courage, and the price of telling the truth inside big institutions. We unpack: Why “Stand Your Ground” is not courage—and how fear + power shape policing and justiceD...