Death, Sex & Money - "This Has Been A Long Time Coming."
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
We asked you what you needed to say in this moment of reckoning with police brutality, structural racism, and grief. Here's what you told us.
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| 0:00.0 | I should not be fighting the same fight that my grandparents fought. |
| 0:04.8 | This is disgraceful. |
| 0:10.3 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:12.7 | This has been a long time coming. |
| 0:14.5 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:18.0 | I just feel angry and overwhelmed. |
| 0:22.6 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm really hoping this gets us somewhere because I'm sick and tired of being in the same place. |
| 0:28.5 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:33.6 | And this week, a lot of you have told us what you need to say right now. In this moment of protest against racism and anguish about recent brutality, illness, |
| 0:39.8 | and devastating loss. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm used to racism being a thing in the background. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm used to racism being something that's subtle and something that isn't in your face. |
| 0:50.1 | But right now, it feels super point blank and straightforward in a way that's hard to deny. |
| 0:57.2 | And it just feels like, oh, y'all don't, y'all don't even care who sees. |
| 1:03.1 | I think what I need to say is, I'm struggling. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm not doing well. |
| 1:07.5 | I cry. |
| 1:08.4 | It hurts. |
| 1:09.2 | My heart. |
| 1:10.7 | Sort of physically it hurts. I want to scream. Friends ask if |
| 1:14.4 | I'm okay and I tell them I'm not because I'm not. How can we be okay when we live in a state of terror? |
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