#162 The Least You Could Do

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Gimlet

Society & Culture, Documentary, Technology

4.7 • 29.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Black people all across the US are receiving the world's weirdest form of reparations: Venmo payments from white people. Producer Emmanuel Dzotsi investigates. Additional Reading: Noni's petition to reform the film department at UNC: https://www.change.org/p/patricia-parker-racism-within-the-screenwriting-minor?recruiter=17176211&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=tap_basic_share Milly Tamarez' podcast, "All Dick is Trash": https://open.spotify.com/show/4eREYSWtBckafqqobfP42u?si=6TrZ8EfESpqiTwEF0_l_gg Annika Neklason's article on Civil War Conspiracies in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/conspiracy-theories-civil-war/612283/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Gimla, this is a reply all.
0:08.3	I'm Immanuel Jocci.
0:13.8	So last Monday after two weeks of protests over the killing of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
0:18.7	Tony McDade, and so many other black people.
0:21.5	I ended up in a conversation with a black woman who told me about a very weird situation
0:26.0	she found herself in.
0:27.5	If you don't want to go by your real name, we can change your name.
0:30.6	Yeah, I don't, because the only reason is I feel really sorry for this girl.
0:36.4	Like how I feel and my understanding of it is not what she feels and I'm almost just
0:40.8	like, poor baby, but I don't want her to be embarrassed.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.8	But I feel like she ever hears this.
0:46.8	She's going to know this is her because so anyways, yeah, because of how I responded
0:52.6	to her.
0:53.6	This is Maya and as you just heard, Maya is not actually her real name.
0:57.6	She's a photographer, lives in LA.
1:00.2	Maya told me that shortly after a recent protest, one of her colleagues posted to Twitter
1:04.4	in support of black women photographers.
1:06.3	It was opposed to editors and opposed to just people in general that was kind of saying
1:10.8	higher black women right now because, you know, it directly affects them and they're
1:15.7	covering these issues that are happening.
1:17.6	And so she did this list, which was just incredible highlighting black women photographers.
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