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Hello and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race, the biweekly multiracial podcast, where we discuss the ways we can't talk, don't talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly, do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-posts yet still very racial America.

You can say all that or just call us about race.

It's a lot shorter.

I'm Baratune Day Thurston, back with you, taking a very short break from my very new job,

which you may have heard about the Daily Show.

And here with me in the Panoply Studios in New York are my co-discussans, Tanner

Tanner.

Not much.

How are you?

I'm super good.

Thanks for asking.

And since Raquel Sepeda cannot be with us this morning, we're joined by our very

special guest back with us again for the second time.

The first to do that, Anand Giridadas, author of The True American,

Murder and Mercy in Texas. Great to be here. Great to be your first second. On this week's show,

here's what we're going to be discussing. Republican presidential candidates provoke outrage

with the A word and school segregation right here in our own backyard in Brooklyn.

Then we'll wrap things up with yo, check this out, our tips and recommendations.

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