Black Uncles, White Uncles
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:25.9 | And thanks very much for listening. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm Virginia Heffernan. |
| 0:36.8 | We have, as usual, a world turned upside down. |
| 0:39.3 | And my guest today to discuss this curious intersection of heightened racism with heightened |
| 0:45.2 | terror of death is echo Yanke a law professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York. |
| 0:51.7 | Echo is a prolific writer on election reform, criminal justice, and policing. |
| 0:55.8 | And in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd in May, Yanke said, |
| 1:00.4 | we can no longer have an America where white problems are social problems and |
| 1:05.0 | black problems are policing problems. |
| 1:07.9 | We're going to talk about secrets in white families and secrets in black ones. |
| 1:11.9 | Basically, the archetypal uncles, we all have who we've jollyed along at family events as they |
| 1:17.7 | surfaced the disturbing truths about white supremacy. |
| 1:21.5 | One uncle by being a white supremacist and the other by seeing white supremacy everywhere. |
| 1:27.9 | What are we going to do with these wild truth tellers? |
| 1:30.0 | These uncles win or if all this is over? |
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