The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello, and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race.

The now weekly 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 post yet

still very racial America. You could say all that or just call the show about race. I'm Anna Holmes,

and joining me from the Panoply Studios in Brooklyn, New York, our panelists, Tanner Colby.

Hi, Tanner.

Hello.

Baratunde Thurston. Hi, Baratunde.

What's good, Anna.

And via Skype, Roxanne Gay, who contributes op-eds and essays to publications like the New York Times, and is the author of several books, bad feminist, an untamed state, and

Coming Soon, Hunger. Welcome to About Race, Roxanne. Hello, Anna. Thanks for having me. Thank you

for being here. More like Roxanne Yee. That's good. I like that. You should change your

Twitter handle to say that, Roxanne. For a day. Just for a day, just for a day.

Roxanne Yee for a day. Hachtag Roxanne Yee. Let's get that changing, you know. So the first

topic we're going to discuss is Nate Parker, the director of Nate Parker. In case you're not familiar,

the 36-year-old actor-producer director was accused of rape in 1999 when he was in college at Penn State.

He and his then roommate John Celestan were tried for having sex with a fellow student, a freshman,

who claimed she was unconscious at the time. Parker claimed that the sex was consensual and was acquitted. Celestan was convicted and served six months of jail time, but on appeal, his case was

dismissed. And as we learned just a few

weeks ago, the victim, a white woman, committed suicide in 2012. So why is this news now?

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