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Hey y'all, just a heads up. The following podcast contains descriptions of sexual assault.

Do you swear that the testimony you're about to give before this committee will be the truth,

the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you guys? Thank you very much. Please

be seated before you give your statement. You're listening to Code Switch, I'm Gene Demby.

Sherina's out reporting this week. Millions of people tuned into coverage of Christine

Blasey Ford's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Ford, who was a

psychology professor at Apollo Arts University, reluctantly came forward to detail how she was

allegedly sexually assaulted as a teenager by Brett Kavanaugh, a nominee for the Supreme Court.

I don't have all the answers and I don't remember as much as I would like to,

but the details about that night that bring me here today are the ones I will never forget.

They have been seared into my memory and have haunted me episodically as an adult.

When I got to the small gathering, people were drinking beer. For four hours, Professor Ford

emotionally recalled the night in 1982, when she said she went to a small gathering in a Washington

DC suburb. That's where she said Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Indelegable in the hippocampus is

the laughter, the abhorious laughter between the two, and they're having fun at my expense.

That's Ford referring to Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, who was allegedly in the

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