Ally's Choice

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Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 2 July 2013

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Producer Lu Olkowski brings us the story of a tightly-knit family caught on opposite sides of a very big divide. If you ask Ally Manning's mom and sister, they'll tell you there's no question: they're black. But as a teenager, Ally decided that what was true for them didn't make sense for her.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:02.1	Okay.
0:03.4	All right.
0:04.7	Okay.
0:06.0	All right.
0:07.6	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:10.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.1	Shorts!
0:12.5	From W-N-Y-C.
0:15.7	See?
0:16.0	Yes.
0:17.5	And NPR.
0:19.8	How did you actually bump into this whole thing?
0:23.3	Do you want the long-winded version or the short-winded version?
0:25.8	Split the difference.
0:27.7	Okay.
0:28.6	This is our friend Lou O'Kowski.
0:30.4	She's a radio producer.
0:31.6	I was there 2008.
0:34.2	And where is there?
0:35.2	Southern Ohio, Pike County, Ohio, an Appalachian part of Ohio. When you say Appalachian, I think mountains and stuff. Is that the wrong image? No, it's the right image. It's country. And why were you out there? I knew someone working on the campaign. So this is 2008, so this is Barack Obama Part 1. This is Barack Obama Part 1. And that's why I went. Lou says it was the end of October. One week before the election. And in the final days, the Obama campaign was pressing deeper into parts of rural Ohio than almost any other campaign before it. So I went and I followed Barack Obama volunteers around. Just to see. How is it going to play?
1:11.5	And how's his race going to play in a part of the country that's so white?
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