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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 1635 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

Hold empathy for Nate Parker.

I'm Anna Holmes, and I'm here at the Panoply Studios in Brooklyn with Jemiel Smith,

senior national correspondent for MTV News.

Hi, Jemiel.

Hello.

And Tanner Colby.

Hi, Tanner.

Hello, Anna.

On our last episode, we discussed Georgetown University and the initial steps

it's taking to address its role in the institution of and profit from slavery.

We also talked about the controversy surrounding film director Nate Parker in allegations of

sexual assault, and we invited you to weigh in.

So, here's our producer, A.C. Valdez, with some of what you all had to say.

Hey, Anna. So we got a bazillion responses to the Nate Parker stuff, and I can't get to all of them.

Okay.

I'm going to read a few kind of quickly. This one is from Rain. Have to say I'm disappointed, but sadly not surprised that the men on this show found dozens of eloquent excuses and explanations ad nauseum to see birth of a nation.

So if Parker passed around your sister

slash daughter and it broke her and she killed herself, you'd still go to the movie. Really?

I wanted to go before I found out, but now I can't look at Parker's face without thinking about

what he did. And his slack pity me bullshit was I was young nonsense. This should kill his

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