Austin Metcalf's Dad Says Black Jurors Can't Be Fair — DL Hughley Isn't Having It

In this episode of Uncertain, DL Hughley opens on a president who started a war but can't clean a pool — the vandalized reflecting pool, the peroxide, and what it says that the country swearing it can beat Iran can't beat algae — before getting into the "two Americas" gap between the detective who called DL back about a storage locker and the bank fraud nobody ever called Alex about. From there DL, Jasmine, and Alex take on Jeff Metcalf's post-verdict media tour and the racial double standard buried in jury selection: the claim that only one kind of person can be fair, the preemptive strikes used overwhelmingly against Black jurors, and the long roll call — Fanny Willis, Letitia James, Sunny Hostin, the Black judge in the Botham Jean case — that proves Black America has never had a problem meting out justice to its own. DL breaks down the CDC data that buries the absent-father myth, then turns to the bigger question on the week America turns 250: Eddie Glaude saying out loud that he doesn't love this country, the Fourth of July lie we all agree to tell each other, and what it means to love something the way you'd love an abusive parent — the only one you've got. Then it's Bill Maher calling the Obama library a "monument to arrogance," and DL explaining why, in an era of erasure, that building might be the only proof this man ever existed — and why Black people are, in fact, going to hike. This episode is sponsored by: Shopify — Start your business today with the industry's best partner. Sign up for your $1/month trial at https://shopify.com/uncertain Sponsor Uncertain: https://public.liveread.io/media-kit/uncertain Get DL's memoir, Charlie's Boy: https://realdlhughley.com Go see DL Hughley Live: https://dlhughleygigs.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices