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Toure Show

Chris Colbert–I Want You To Say Their Names

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The police violence crisis is a saga with many tragedies. There’s many names we know but there’s many names we don’t know.. Say Their Name is a powerful new podcast docuseries that digs into many of the names and stories you haven’t heard and talks to the family and takes you inside the stories of this crisis in a way you haven’t before seen. We talk to the executive producer of the series Chris Colbert. Patreon.com/toureshow Instagram: @toureshow Twitter: @toure Newsletter: blackmindsmatter.substack.com Toure Show Ep 191 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Which of the stories is most traumatizing and harrowing for you to go through?

0:21.1

Yeah, definitely a tough one to answer. I think the story of

0:26.0

Danny Ray Thomas is a particularly tough one. It deals with mental health as many of

0:32.3

these cases tend to.

0:34.4

Danny Ray Thomas, I think what really hits hard for me

0:37.4

is that he spent most of his life homeless.

0:40.0

His mother died in early age.

0:41.6

His father was incarcerated shortly thereafter so him and his sister basically raised each other on the streets in Houston and they had been through so much and then he finally you know had some kids and had a wife he ends up going to

0:55.0

jail because he was doing some substances that landed him there and while he was

1:00.0

in jail his wife killed his kids and he wasn't even able to be there for the funeral

1:06.7

well they did let him out for the funeral but they wouldn't let him actually be there

1:09.6

for them putting the kids in the ground they let him go to the the viewing but he couldn't see his kids go on the ground.

1:15.2

He goes back to jail, comes back out about three months later and is now really struggling with his

1:21.6

mental health and ends up in the middle of the street

1:24.3

with his pants around his ankles and please shoot him in the middle of the street.

1:29.6

And it's just like the system failed him. And I think that's what is so tough for that one and I have a

1:35.2

cousin who has schizophrenia and I see that story and I constantly think that I'm going to

1:40.4

one day wake up and see my cousin as one of these people.

1:46.1

The police violence crisis has been going on for decades, but ever since Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner and Michael Brown, things have been

1:57.9

getting hotter and hotter. And Black Lives Matter has risen up to try to combat that and yet still more and more people

2:06.0

keep getting killed all the time. There are names we know and there are names we haven't even heard of.

2:15.0

That's why we have to keep saying their names so we keep them alive.

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