HeyJaredAfternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts
Every day is racism for black people. Most people are not open-minded to understand racism, nor are most people open to believing in racism. Afternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts serves two purposes. One, education in discrimination. Two, a platform to talk about racism.
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After The Brew: Migraine Weekend, Health Schedule & A Flash Drive That Won't Cooperate (opens the original)
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Darren keeps it brief tonight — he's got an early morning, a bag already packed for the office, and a to-do list that needs to be done before bed. Labor Day weekend did not go the way he planned. A migraine hit Friday night and didn't fully let go until Monday afternoon — two full days in bed, light sensitivity that started the whole thing, and a suspicion about monk fruit and stevia sweeteners that turned out to be a hydration problem instead. Still not fully clear on how the light sensitivity
Hate Crimes Through 2024: Massachusetts — The Largest Dataset in the Series, and the Most Documented Antisemitism in America (opens the original)
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Twenty states into this series. Twenty consecutive times Anti-Black bias has led the cumulative hate crime data. Massachusetts makes it twenty — at 673 incidents, the highest raw Anti-Black count the series has documented in any state. But the number that defines Massachusetts above everything else is Anti-Jewish at 492. The previous series record was Illinois at 233. Maryland at 199. Massachusetts is 492 — more than double either. The federal case file explains it: four bias-motivated fires at
Selma to the Supreme Court: The Voting Rights Fight That Never Actually Ended (opens the original)
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March 7th, 1965: six hundred marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, met with clubs and tear gas. Five months later, the Voting Rights Act became law — ninety-five years after the Fifteenth Amendment had already promised the same thing on paper. Sixty years later, this past April, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in a case that guts the last major enforcement tool that law had left. This episode traces the throughline: the legal toolkit Southern states built after 1870 to get around the Fiftee
After The Brew: The CGM Fight, 70 Pages of Evidence & Why You Have Every Right to Know Your Trends (opens the original)
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Darren finally found that Indianapolis Business Journal he lost weeks ago — and the article inside it was worth the wait. A July 3rd piece on Roche Diagnostics expanding their diabetes care focus includes a quote that cuts straight to the heart of the fight he's been in since June 10th: continuous glucose monitors track trends, not just single-point-in-time readings. Every five minutes. Real time. And that's exactly what finger sticking cannot do. CIGNA denied him twice — once for the Dexcom, on
After The Brew: Tedrick Washington Jr., The RFA Procedure & Coming Back Slower But Clearer (opens the original)
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Darren opens with Tedrick Washington Jr. — a 23-year-old former Division I basketball player who was pulled by his dreadlocks and punched through a shattered car window by Arkansas State Trooper Theodore Henderson during a traffic stop on August 19th. Washington was a backseat passenger. He was unarmed. The trooper claimed he "postured up" as justification. As of September 1st, no disciplinary action has been taken. Ben Crump is involved. Darren connects it to a separate August 1st incident wher
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