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Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

A Conversation With Frederick Joseph on the Repercussions of Racism

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay welcome bestselling author Frederick Joseph to discuss his recent run-in at a dog park that went viral and the social media frenzy that followed (5:48). Plus, Black Twitter comes for Ellen Pompeo (1:00:56), the #FreeBritney movement succeeds (1:09:57), and a casting decision for the upcoming film ‘The Harder They Fall’ comes under scrutiny (1:18:08). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Frederick Joseph Producers: Trudy Joseph and Donnie Beacham Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yeah, yeah, yeah, thought warriors. What is up?

0:03.7

How are learning is on is his eye van Lathan and it's me Rachel in Lansing fan Lathan junior. I keep forgetting that

0:10.5

That's okay when I say land you get it you figure it out. I had a rough day of grief yesterday. Oh

0:18.2

Very very very

0:20.2

tearful

0:21.9

just like is like

0:23.9

Is I'll read what I tweeted because I didn't really know who to talk to about it because it's I'm not gonna be able to put it in a better way

0:32.2

Because the only reason why I'm saying this is because the junior is a is a tribute to my father

0:36.9

I feel like sometimes I'm dropping it on purpose because I it makes me think of them

0:41.1

and

0:42.3

This is the really shit I have ever wrote a lie

0:46.1

Two pox your core and it's not a there's not a good way to really explain them well dealing with my father's death has been impossible

0:53.0

I'll just be walking or riding and a feeling will just jump into me. It's like a feeling just comes to me as if

1:00.8

like I'll be walking down the

1:03.8

Street and I'll look around a corner and

1:07.1

It'll be like is my dad gonna be there. I don't know what's going on or I will feel some weird

1:13.8

Feeling like he's trying to find me and

1:15.9

and and it just like yesterday all day long yesterday

1:22.8

I felt some kind of weird connection to my dad. I was like yo, he like

1:28.0

Yo, like what's and it and it I it just like it

1:34.8

It like re

1:36.8

It's almost cemented yesterday that like he was passed away. It's like weird and then like I

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