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Before we begin this week's show, I just wanted to take a moment out to send our deep felt

condolences to the community in Charleston, to the AME Church and to the families of the nine victims.

And we are not going to get into it this time around, but we want some time to pass and want to

reflect and have some hindsight

and really get into it and give it the attention that it deserves in the near future. Hello and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race.

The bi-weekly multiracial podcast where we discuss the ways we can't talk, don't talk,

but rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly, do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post, yet still very racial America.

You could say all that we could just call the show about race.

I'm Raquel Sepeda, and joining me here in the Panoply Studios in New York City are my co-host, Tanner.

Hello.

Did you miss me?

I missed you so much, Raquel.

And what's up, Baratunde?

Hey, hey, hey.

How do I look now that you can see me in HD?

You are so crystal clear, beautiful.

Oh.

You're better without glasses. On this week's show, Rachel D. Oh. You're better without glasses.

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