CULTURE AND ARTS

LEVEL A

NEWSPAPER DROP 'DILBERT AFTER CREATOR’S ANTI-

Here we go. Newspapers across the country are dropping the Dilbert comic strip after its
creator, Scott Adams, went on a stunning racist tirade this weakened, calling black Americans a hate
group and advising white people to stay away from them. And as Polo Sandoval has the story this
morning for us, Polo, good morning to you. What’s up? With this? Yeah, guys, good morning to you. So
basically, he is doubling down on the comments that he made earlier this week saying that they were
completely taken out of context. The newspapers know that ran his strip for decades, are now severing
ties with him, saying that his comments were part of a racist tirade.

Yes. You know, nearly half of all blacks are not okay with white people. That’s a hate group.

That was a comment that may have ended. Scott Adams his newspaper career, the Dilbert creator,
referencing a poll from the conservative firm Rasmussen Reports that indicated 53% of black Americans
agree with the statement it’s okay to be white leading the other 47% to say they disagree or aren’t sure.
The Ant- Defamation League has noted that phrase has a long history in the white supremacist
movement.

The best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people.

He continued to double down throughout his show, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and USA
Today, among the hundreds of newspapers that denounced Adams and quickly pulled Dilbert.

USA Today newspaper CEO Mike Read. It was, frankly, an easy decision. We found the remarks hateful,
hurtful, and then just crossed the line.

But not everyone agrees. Twitter CEO Elon Musk coming to Adams’s defense tweeting. The media is
racist. Adams has since tweeted that he was only advising people to avoid hate and suggested that the
cancelation of his cartoon signals that free speech in America is under assault.

We believe in free speech. We believe in creating a place for differing points of view. But there’s a line
that gets crossed where things become racism. And that’s not an area we choose to traffic in or
participate in.

But he rejected a company that was responsible for distributing that comic strip. Still waiting to hear
back, guys. But have to tell you, after watching hours and hours of his latest streams, it’s really hard to
gauge exactly how worried he is. I’ll tell you why he loves attention. It’s not me saying it. He actually said
it over the weekend on one of his streams. And he also recognized that he was completely aware that
this was basically going to open up the floodgates. And when he made these bombshell remarks, so he is
getting a bit of what he wanted. But the question will it be more than what he bargained for, especially
since he says that he expects to lose a majority of the income in the coming days? Right.

There are many times when people are taken out of context or they need explaining or whatever. But
his comments were that’s not what’s with these comments. He keeps saying that’s not what I mean to
say, but it is exactly what he calls it, useful provocation.

He wanted to start a conversation in guys. But there are many ways to start a conversation about race in
America that doesn’t include calling black Americans what he called them. So I think that this will be
certainly one to watch. And as you continue to hear major newspapers, not just here in the U.S., but
around the world, dropping the Strip. What will he do next?

Yeah, and it’s important to note that the poll that started all of this that he was talking about, they are
not talking about their data. There are people have cast doubt on how accurate it is and what it looks
like. And if people are trying to vote on it, to change the outcome of it. So I think that’s an also an
important context of what he’s even talking about in the first place. Really?

Does he say he’s being cancelled? Is that what he thinks?

That’s what he says. I wonder if he’s perhaps seeing himself as sort of this free speech martyr. Again,
we’ll have to see as more of these newspapers drop his work after decades and for 30 years, his speech
comes with consequences. Yeah. Thank you for that.

LEVEL B
'THE WHITE LOTUS' STAR REVEALS HOW HARD IT WAS
FOR CAST TO KEEP SECRET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=fTEzM4A4dgM&list=PL6XRrncXkMaX9mLW3lR_q4r_c-zU2s0nW&index=25

Kaitlin and I are super fans. The second season of HBO hit show The White Lotus. Sorry, I won’t
make it. Or if you’re just speaking the truth. It was a close last night. And we have to warm you, because
we’re going to this is a spoiler alert. So if you don’t want to know what happened, I would say turn the
volume down, OK? We don’t want you to change the channel I’ll just turn the volume down. So fans have
spent the entire season there and trying to figure out once question, who was that floating body? They
finally got their answer. It was last night.

You’ve had very bad luck. Best thing about Rocky is I can always change. Italy’s just so romantic. You’re
going to die. Okay, who’s going to die? I will Sharpe’s here. He plays the night Lotus. And we should note
that HBO is a unit. It’s a parent company to CNN. Okay so, I want to brother Disco. Wait a minute. What
about Discovery? We’re in the same company. Let’s get some distant cousins. So thank you for joining
us. You said. I know that you thought that you predicted. You’ve been telling everybody that things are
going to get messy. You said fans should expect fireworks and there were fireworks. I have to say, I was
wrong. This is a spoiler alert and take closure is I thought that you were the killer. I did.

Okay. I think that’s fair. And I mean, I don’t know what kind of conversation Mike had with the rest of the
cast. I remember, you know, him being very upfront with me towards the beginning about how he did want
Ethan to be a kind of enigma, you know, especially towards the beginning of the series. And for it to be
like an available fare that maybe he is going to be there. So I guess I was mindful of that in the playing of
it, whilst also having an eye on the long game of how really play.

So you started the show and the cast does not know who the killer is or who dies. No, we did. We had all
seven scripts and so yeah, we’ve been carrying those secrets for a while. I guess. And so in a way, it’s a
relief to be able to talk about it more freely now. But yeah. Wow, what? What a bold move on my part.
Am I missing something or I still don’t know who the killer. So. But I don’t know if we should I don’t think
we should think we should say who the killer is. So we’re not spoil it. Turn the volume is kind of a spoiler
alert, but but the twist is, is that the kit’s a double thing because the killer ends up being something else
as well, which I won’t say yes. Right. So this there’s a there’s a sort of, you know, double twist here. Yes.
Yeah. Yes. And I think, you know, that’s part of the beauty of it is that it plays out in a kind of
complicated, tragicomic way. And it’s kind of playful and bombastic but also, you know, sad and
poignant as we and I think yeah. And I say I just think it’s a very courage move on my part and to go
there. And it’s one of the things I really admire about I’m sorry if you haven’t watched this show. What’s
so fascinating is it’s kind of this idea, like they’re in these amazing setting and it’s like people go to
paradise, but they still take their problem with them. Like it’s talk about privilege about class about sex
and all of that. I wonder what you thought of just like the themes for this season, because I know Mike
white says it wasn’t what he initially thought it was going to be. And he changed it based on the setting.
Yeah, So, I mean, I definitely think this season explores, you know, sexual politics and gender politics,
too. I think the different ways in which men and women historically can behave for better or worse. And
you say, I think it’s Sicilians setting that think that informs a lot of. And I remember him saying to me
that one of the first inspirations for the story of this season was when he asked a local about the test
anymore. You know, there’s sculptures of that you see often in the show and that Ethan and Harper
have one in that. I said, and the story that is relayed in the show is, in the actual backstory for those
trusted. So, yeah, I think it’s it’s a dark series, I think in a funny way. It’s also romantic I think might and
pieces of light in that the nature of relationships. But you know, without shying away from all the
generalist, messiest complex places their relationship take you.
LEVEL C
Leaving her mark through paintings and
murals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9D4S1LRZ90

A Filipino-American painter and muralist is leaving her mark on the streets of New York City Camille
Herta who also goes by the name OG Millie has a visual impairment and has undergone eye surgeries
but that didn’t stop her from bringing color to the city Millie joins us now live via zoom from New York.

Good morning from Manila Millie and good evening to you.

“Hi good morning good evening here

It happened in college or a high school and then college happened twice so I have rental Detachment so
I always wanted to do graphic design like you said and I never really saw myself as a street artist I never
saw myself doing murals and then it just happened with one opportunity they had an organization that
contacted me to create a mural and I didn’t know what to do and I’m a big risk taker so I just ended up
doing it and I fell in love with the bigger scale of working on murals.

Okay, Is there any is there an aspect to the larger scale the bright colors that you’re known for you
know how does how does that tie into the way that you go about your art you you’re not only about the
large-scale murals you’re also about your smaller scale vintage mirrors and we’ll talk about that we’ll
jump back to that too but you know your visual impairment does that tie into the way you approach
your art?

Yes so I love working in larger scale because it’s very thought provoking I love to take the viewer on a
visual Journey per se and especially working with mirrors I think that’s my representation of my whole
eye Journey because I love the way that the mirrors reflect and you have to be now and in the present
moment. I love how you know whenever you turn around you see yourself and you see the artwork
sometimes I leave the eyes clear so you can see you know the whole eye journey I focus a lot on the eye

Right, then you’re not just a great artist that you’re also an athlete you love basketball and you continue
to enjoy that game tell us about that.

Oh that was my first love before art. I played in grade school I played in high school and I got full-ride
scholarship to play in college so that was my whole adolescent years I grew up my dad me and my dad
share the love of a passion of basketball and like that always speaks to me even when I do a mural like
that Jordan piece I have to play basketball at the same time good stuff.

All right well let’s go back to your art now you have wide range Millie you go form like I said the small
antique mirrors to large-scale murals, which do you find where is your art now as far as your art journey
goes would you continue with the art that’s based on the canvas of the mirror you also do Canvas art of
cause and of course the you’re well known for your murals.

All right we’ll try to get Millie back on the line there we’ve got a little bit of a technical problem some
amazing art that we’re seeing here on screen Millie is well known her murals you know adding color all
over New York City and all over various cities in the US. Millie are you there?

Yes and I don’t know what happened

We had a small connection problem there in terms of your art journey how would you define where you
are now are you going to focus more on your small formats with the mirrors or really stick to the larger
format of mural art.

I would rather them both because this smaller mirrors are just more personal works and then the
murals are more you of my know I work with companies I work with corporations restaurants small
businesses so that’s my mark on helping the community out,

Right very distinctive with your vibrant palette easy to spot your work it really does sort of fly proud
you are this is Beacon of Asian American representation in this field how important is it for you that
you’re recognized as being a you know a great representation of the Asian American people.

Oh it feels very empowering you know street art or murals in general are male dominated industry and I
feel like I broke the glass ceiling and especially being Asian American in let alone Filipina so it’s
empowering for me and I feel like want to inspire other people who look like me you know.

Well on the subject of you know empowered and being empowered how would you, you know
convince people that they can make their Mark and they should go out and sort of follow their dreams
how do you. I don’t know inspire people to empower themselves.

I think it’s just more so taking a risk believing in yourself and at the same time don’t be afraid to show
your work you know there’s always people going to be criticizing it but at the same time you have to do
it for yourself and also you don’t have to have everything figured out you know I never knew I was going
to be an artist so I feel like you know you just have to keep trying things because you don’t know if
you’re good at it if you don’t try it.

Well Millie you doing amazing work and we are so proud of what you’re achieving out there thank you
once again Camille for joining us this morning here on your day.