Welcome to episode 165 of the Marvel Studios news podcast.

My name is Sean Gerber.

I know it's been a while since we've released a new episode.

It's been a time in which there were just more important conversations

to have than simply talking about what's going on in the

MCU. It's been a time to listen, learn, and take meaningful action in the ways that we can.

The time off from this podcast, however,

it's not been a method by which to sidestep

what's going on in the world now

and what's been going on in the world

for literally hundreds of years. The murder of George Floyd by four police

officers has renewed the national and global conversations about systemic racism.

The truth, however, is that these conversations never should have stopped because the problem

has never gone away.

Rashard Brooks, George Floyd, Brianna Taylor,

Amad Arbury, Eliza McClain,

they are just some of the more recent examples,

but before them there were many others,

those whose names we know, those whose names we don't.

And when these tragic injustices have happened,

many of us have fallen into a familiar pattern.

We get angry, we condemn on social media, but then we move on these stories they have simply moved in and out of the news cycle and it's still too early to know if things are really going to be different this time, but I am hopeful that they just

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