Claudia Rankine: Just Us

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 4 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The illustrious author, poet, and playwright, Claudia Rankine, joins us with the release of her latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation. We discuss the conversations (3:12) and relationships (24:12) that comprise Just Us, the problem with color-blindness, a personal shift in perspective following her cancer diagnosis (16:53), how history remains present for black people (27:29), and why we must repeatedly unpack what privilege looks and sounds like in this country (40:26). To close, Claudia reads a timely and moving excerpt from Just Us (52:52).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is Tishkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam Fricoso. Welcome to the show. Hey yo, yo, yo!
0:23.0	Hey!
0:24.0	Hey! Hey! Hey everyone. Thank you for being here. This past week has been,
0:40.0	it's been a roller coaster for a ride I'm dying to get off of. Holy shit. As of this
0:50.2	taping, Donald J. Trump is at Walter Reed Military Hospital. His chief of
0:56.8	staff, Mark Meadows, said that the president's vitals over the last 24 hours were
1:02.1	very concerning. and the next 48 hours will be critical
1:06.7	in terms of his care. We're still not on a clear path to a full recovery. Now, before we get to Claudia Rankin today, there's been a lot of conversation
1:18.6	around civility, about how people on the left are celebrating a family's illness.
1:25.0	But I just want to clear something up because no one is celebrating illness.
1:31.0	At least not intentionally. What they are celebrating is the
1:35.9	potential end of an era, a conclusion on this administration, an administration that
1:41.7	has cost thousands of lives in its handling of the
1:45.4	coronavirus, an administration that has separated children from their families
1:50.0	at the border, has locked up nonviolent tax-paying Mexicans, has called our troops, suckers and
1:56.8	losers, has spewed misogyny, assaulted women mocked the disabled community, threatened
2:02.3	the free press, circumvented and bent the law at his
2:06.2	own will. Lied, lied, and Lied, paid $750 in federal income tax, they are celebrating the end of all this.
2:17.0	The potential end of all this.
2:20.0	No one that has made sense so far.
2:32.9	So I wish President Trump a recovery.
2:36.4	I wish his family well, and I look forward to saying goodbye to them, come November.
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