Hey folks, this is Kevin. On this week's episode of Risk, you'll hear Aisha Tyler.

You know, you would drive these country roads and then neon crosses will just float out of the dark and they look as if they're on fire.

Not good imagery for me as a black person burning crosses or even a facsimile of a burning cross.

Nothing burning and cross together, just not good.

That and more. But first, this is yet another fantastic episode celebrating Black History Month

this year that you're about to hear. If you have a story about being black while

doing anything, living, for example.

For a lot of folks nowadays, staying alive is a hero's journey in and of itself.

Anyway, we want to hear those stories.

So pitch us at risk-sh-show.com slash submissions.

We'll be right back.

Now here's the show.

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Hello folks. Hello, folks, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories.

They never thought they dare to share.

I'm Kevin Allison, and this is Earth, Wind, and Fire, with the song Shining Star,

behind me now because we're calling this week's episode All Star episode number three.

It's funny how this one came together.

There's a story here you might have heard before by a slim chance.

And two that you almost certainly haven't heard before unless you were in the audience when

they were recorded.

Anyway, at some point, putting together a third All-Star episode, we realized they just

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