Discussing 'The Talk'

Life Kit

NPR

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business, Kids & Family

4.5 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It's Been A Minute host Sam Sanders talks with his colleague Kenya Young, executive producer of Morning Edition and mother of three boys about "the talk" — The series of conversations Black parents have with their kids, particularly their sons, about how to deal with police encounters.

See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.

NPR Privacy Policy

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there, Sam Sanders here.
0:01.5	I host It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:03.6	And like so many of you, I have been spending a lot of time recently talking about policing
0:08.0	and race in the hurt a lot of us are feeling right now.
0:11.8	Today, the folks here at LifeKit wanted to share a discussion I had on my show with my
0:16.4	NPR colleague, Kenya Young.
0:18.5	We discussed the talk.
0:22.0	This is the talk that black parents give their children, particularly their sons, about
0:26.7	how they should deal with the police if they encounter them.
0:30.0	It is often a hard talk, a sad talk, and the stakes with this talk are really high.
0:44.1	Kenya knows this talk all too well.
0:47.5	She is my colleague and the executive producer of NPR's Morning Edition.
0:52.1	Like she runs the whole show.
0:54.1	She is also the mother of three black boys.
0:56.9	I have a 16 and a half year old, a 14 year old, and a four year old.
1:03.2	How was the oldest 16?
1:04.2	Because I remember when they were running around the building when he was four years old.
1:09.8	Exactly.
1:10.8	Exactly.
1:11.8	It is crazy.
1:12.8	It is crazy.
1:13.8	It is 16 years old.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.