Afternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts

About Afternoon 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. Dive in with me to learn the history and the hypocrisy of those who don't believe racism exists. We will look at current events involved with racism as well. Let's have an uncomfortable conversation.

Publisher

Darren Watts

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Apr 2021

Latest episode

8 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

331 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Sept 2026

   After The Brew: Migraine Weekend, Health Schedule & A Flash Drive That Won't Cooperate

   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 kicked it off. That's a question for the neurologist. Speaking of which — the health schedule is stacking up. Eye appointment tomorrow for contacts. Neurology on the 16th, almost a full year since his last visit. Therapy the following week. And then the second medial branch block on the 22nd — the follow-up to the first RFA step that gave him real but partial relief. He's hoping round two is more complete. He's also dealing with a flash drive that his computer refuses to read, a second IBJ article about Indiana's entrepreneurial ecosystem he wants to dig into properly before commenting on, and the ongoing reality that the state keeps putting itself before its citizens. Thursday and next week are where the real substance lands. Tonight he's just checking in. After The Brew, Darren Watts, Afternoon Coffee Break, migraine, Labor Day weekend, light sensitivity, hydration, monk fruit, stevia, eye appointment, contacts, neurology appointment, medial branch block, RFA round two, therapy, back pain, lumbar arthritis, Indianapolis Business Journal, Indiana entrepreneurship, flash drive, health schedule, real talk, Black podcast, September 2026, checking in, early morning, keeping it brief,

2. 

   7 Sept 2026

   Hate Crimes Through 2024: Massachusetts — The Largest Dataset in the Series, and the Most Documented Antisemitism in America

   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 Jewish community centers across Greater Boston, a homemade bomb placed at the entrance of Ruth's House — a Jewish senior living facility in Longmeadow — discovered before it detonated, a man who fled to Sweden with his brother's electronic devices to obstruct the federal investigation and was sentenced to more than three years in March 2025, and a Massachusetts man who called two synagogues and a Jewish organization on a single morning in January 2024 threatening to kill Jewish children and bomb their places of worship. This episode also covers the full cumulative data — 2,424 total bias incidents, nearly double Maryland's count — plus a 2023 spike from 477 to 630 incidents, one of the sharpest single-year increases in the series. Destruction and Vandalism leads at 902, the series high. Aggravated Assault at 369, the series high. School-Elementary/Secondary at 171, the new series high. School-College/University at 145, also the series high. Church, Synagogue, Temple, or Mosque at 118, the series high. Combined educational settings: 345 documented hate crimes. Four additional federal cases: a man sentenced to seven and a half years for threatening an interracial couple, a man who drove his car into a Vietnamese father in front of his three children, a California man who threatened to bomb Merriam-Webster's Springfield offices over dictionary definitions of "woman," and a Texas man who threatened a Boston Children's Hospital doctor for caring for transgender patients. Twenty states. The pattern has not broken once. Timestamps 00:00 - Disclaimer 01:01 - Introduction 02:46 - The Thesis 04:32 - The Opening 06:52 - The Background 09:22 - The Data 17:01 - Personal Thoughts 19:44 - Closing Afternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts. Follow the show wherever you listen. Rate and review on Apple Podcasts — thirty seconds, it matters. Number 17 Cult All Time. Number 33 Business News All Time on Goodpods — because of you. Massachusetts hate crimes 2024, anti-Black hate crimes Massachusetts, anti-Jewish hate crimes Massachusetts, Boston area Jewish arson hate crime, Ruth's House bomb Longmeadow, Massachusetts synagogue threats, hate crimes through 2024 series, Massachusetts school hate crimes, Asian American hate crime Massachusetts, Afternoon Coffee Break Darren Watts,

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   5 Sept 2026

   Selma to the Supreme Court: The Voting Rights Fight That Never Actually Ended

   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 Fifteenth Amendment — poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, all-white primaries — and how the Voting Rights Act dismantled most of it within a year of passage. Then we follow the modern rollback: Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, the honest (and genuinely contested) research on voter ID laws and turnout, and this April's Louisiana v. Callais decision, which already forced Louisiana to suspend an in-progress primary and redraw its congressional map. This show doesn't tell you who to vote for. It tells you what's actually at stake, and why a fight that started at Selma is still being decided in 2026. Hate Crimes Through 2024 continues every Monday, same as always. TIMESTAMPS 00:00 - Disclaimer 01:01 - Introduction 02:37 - The Thesis 04:13 - Opening 05:36 - The Background 07:12 - The Data 10:23 - Personal Thoughts 11:52 - Closing Follow Afternoon Coffee Break with Darren Watts wherever you get your podcasts. If you're on Apple Podcasts, a rating and review helps new listeners find this conversation. Election Day is November 3rd. Whatever you decide to do with that day — decide it on purpose. The Midterms podcast, voting rights history, Voting Rights Act 1965, Selma Bloody Sunday, Shelby County v Holder, Louisiana v Callais, Section 2 Voting Rights Act, poll tax literacy test grandfather clause, voter ID laws research, Afternoon Coffee Break Darren Watts, 2026 midterm elections,

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