I want to do something that I rarely, if ever, do, actually, which is to tell you about an episode before you hear it.

And the reason is that this is not the episode I set out to make, and I want to tell you why.

You know, I announced that I was going to be doing a show about the Ferguson Grand Jury verdict, which is still true.

That's still what the show is about, sort of.

But I thought that I was going to be sort of analyzing the grand jury process and talking about implicit bias against people of color

and discussing reform proposals such as police body cameras and a company legislation that would ensure accountability and so on and so on.

But the more I listen to things like that and the more I listened to the stuff that actually ended up in this show, I kept coming to this

unskippable realization that going down that original path was sterilizing the conversation in a way that was almost the last thing that needed to happen right now.

To sort of demonstrate Chris Rock has been in the news recently.

I said some really interesting things in an interview that's just in a print, print form.

And he talked about black progress versus white progress.

He's talking about how, you know, to say that black people have made progress would be to say that they deserve what happened to them before.

And he goes on. He says, so to say Obama is progress is saying that he's the first black person that is qualified to be president.

That's not black progress. That's white progress.

There's been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years.

The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children.

There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years.

The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced.

Let's hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

And, you know, it's one of those things that I've never heard anyone say it.

Seems completely obvious.

You know, once it's put out there.

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