American Nightmare

Today, Explained

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Daily News, Politics, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Professor Ibram X. Kendi explains how the protests and unrest are a result of black America’s living nightmare and what it will take to wake up. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.6	Do you remember President Trump's inaugural address back in January 2017?
1:07.7	He talked about crime, gang violence, drugs.
1:11.3	He called it all American Carnage.
1:14.3	The speech left a lot of people scratching their heads.
1:17.9	Violent crime in the country had been trending downward for decades.
1:21.8	George W. Bush, who was actually just seated a few feet away from the brand new president,
1:25.8	apparently turned to his neighbors when the speech was over and said,
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