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Europe and their very imperial present are primarily responsible for the displacement

that in the words of Malcolm, have the chickens come in home in the roost.

Hey everyone from Futuro Media and PRX, it's in the thick of podcast about politics, race

and culture, I'm Mariano Hosa, and I'm Hulu Rikaloarela.

Join us on the ground from Ukraine is ITT All Star, Torell, Dremain Star, journalist and

host of the Black Dipped Bats podcast, and someone who's been with us since the very beginning

Torell, welcome back, it's good to have you.

And listen, as Torell is just saying to us before we start, he's like, everything is not normal

where he is on the ground in Ukraine, so you're going to hear a lot of things in the background

and you know, we're just going to deal with it because this is a very precarious situation

we're in.

So Torell, my dear, this has been a pretty intense time, truly I just got back from Mexico,

so I was in my family disconnecting, but you know, everybody watching what's happening

a second week of war fighting against a Russian invasion that is on the ground, people

resisting in Ukraine, you've been documenting this, you've been covering this, and hundreds

of thousands of your followers on Twitter have been looking to your reporting to understand

...