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Hello, and welcome to the B-side for episode 1641 of our national conversation about conversations about race.

Asian Americans represent.

I'm Anna Holmes, here at the Panoply Studios with our guest Ari Berman.

Hey, Anna.

Hi. Ari, for listeners who don't know this already, is a

contributing writer for The Nation magazine and an investigative journalism follow at the Nation Institute.

So, Ari, on our last episode, we discussed the cultural and political influence of Asian

Americans, why they're often ignored or left out in what's happening to change that. But no conversation is

complete without our listeners' comments. So here is our producer, A.C. Valdez, with some of what you all had to say.

So I was really excited about the thanks and gratitude we got from a lot of people on Twitter about

the Asian American represent thing, but not a whole lot of people wrote in about it.

Really?

So we got a few more voice memos and other comments about other past stuff we've discussed.

This one is from Jasmine, and it's kind of a short story about community policing.

Hi about race team.

My name is Jasmine Robinson.

I am from Long Beach in Compton, California.

I am responding to your podcast about community policing where you ask, I think a listener

asked if there are, there's a way to have police be required to live in the

neighborhoods that they're policing. I don't think there's a requirement. I do know of a program

that my dad participated in. He is a, an elementary school principal in Compton, California.

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