Hi, this is Alonzo Bowden with another episode of my podcast, Who's Paying Attention?

We are up to episode 92, and, well, let's just get right to it, because there's really only one topic to talk about this week, and that is the mess that is

Ferguson and the shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson. Now, I'm going to start by saying,

I don't think I have any amazing insight to add to this. I don't, I've gotten, I've honestly grown tired of watching the

news. I don't, so I don't know what's been said. I'm recording this on Tuesday night, the day

after the verdict was read. So that's where I'm at. Now, right off the top, I will tell you this.

I was not surprised.

And I don't think any black people were surprised when the prosecutor said that the grand

jury said there'll be no charges.

I don't think that white cops will be prosecuted for shooting black people, honestly.

And it's not some big, I mean, all you have to do is look at the history of it.

And it's a long history.

It is a very long history, and they don't prosecute for that.

So I don't think black people were surprised.

I think a lot of people

were disappointed to see it happen again. Obviously, there was tremendous anger and frustration,

which led to rioting and, you know, then there were opportunist looting and anger. And this is,

this is nothing you don't know. You saw saw this you saw it on the news and so on

but it was um it was really interesting to me for a number of reasons one the night before on

sunday night i was lucky enough to perform at an l- Club dinner that was honoring Quincy Jones with a humanitarian award.

Now, for those who don't know, Quincy Jones is one of the greatest music producers ever to have lived.

Going back to the jazz days of Miles Davis and Charlie Parker.

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