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History is US

Democracy Imperiled

History is US

Audacy Podcasts | Shining City Audio

Education, Society & Culture, History

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What happened at the Capitol on January 6 begs us to look to our past to help us understand our present, and to imagine a better future. From debates around voting rights to immigration to police reform, we find ourselves at a crossroads in American Democracy. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you like radically honest stories, you'll love the podcast risk.

0:16.2

Risks where people tell true stories, they never thought they'd dare to share, like the

0:21.3

one about the guy who cooked and served his own leg to his friends as tacos, or the woman

0:27.0

who found out the person she was sharing kinky fantasies with online, was her dad.

0:31.9

If you think you've heard it all, just wait till you hear risk.

0:36.3

Available now on the Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:49.7

On May 14, 2022, a racist white supremacist entered Top's friendly market in

0:56.8

Buffalo, New York. He wasn't there to buy food, or lottery tickets, or cigarettes.

1:04.6

He had other plans, brandishing in AR-15. The teenage white gunman entered the market

1:13.2

to carry out a premeditated mass murder.

1:17.6

Peyton Gendron shot 13 black shoppers that day in Buffalo, killing 10 of them.

1:27.8

Roberta A. Jury, 32 years of age.

1:32.8

Marga's D. Morrison, 52. Andre McNeill, 53. Aaron Salter, 55.

1:43.5

Geraldine Talley, 62. Celestine's Cheney, 65.

1:50.4

Hayward Patterson, 67. Catherine Massey, 72. Pearl Young, 77. Ruth Whitfield, 86.

2:10.2

In a manifesto, obtained after the mass murder, we learned that Gendron was attempting to kill

2:17.5

as many black people as possible. He devised an elaborate timeline for the attack, named

2:25.9

the weapon he would use, and mapped out a plan to live stream the entire event.

2:33.6

He cited Dylan Roof as one of his inspirations. Roof was the white supremacist who killed

2:40.0

nine people during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015.

2:46.4

One of the things that we as a family, I wanted to ensure, is that we call it what it is.

2:52.6

It is white supremacy, it is hate, it is racism, it is bigotry, and we got to call it what

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