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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.0 | Quick warning today's podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:11.1 | Moira Smith is a college student at the University of Vermont. |
| 0:13.9 | I would describe myself as beautiful, brown, I'm 5'3 1 1 1 2, I have brown eyes. |
| 0:23.1 | She grew up in Virginia, but came to Burlington in 2018. |
| 0:27.0 | Laura is black, an in Vermont that seemed to matter more than it had before. |
| 0:31.6 | It feels like being like a flamingo or what is that animal like a peacock, you know, everywhere |
| 0:39.9 | you go, like people stare at you. |
| 0:42.8 | Then two years after she got there, the pandemic hit. |
| 0:47.2 | Classes were canceled. |
| 0:48.6 | Moira lost all three of the jobs she had been using to support herself. |
| 0:53.2 | The delicately balanced lives of the people around her began to tip towards poverty. |
| 0:58.2 | Friends lost their jobs too. |
| 1:00.2 | One friend even had to move in with her. |
| 1:02.9 | And then black people started getting killed in this very public way. |
| 1:11.4 | The man was faced down on the street handcuffed. |
| 1:14.1 | He repeatedly told the officer he could not breathe. |
| 1:17.4 | The protest tonight in several cities and we're going to be different. |
| 1:28.2 | It all hit Moira really hard. |
| 1:30.5 | It just reminded me of like Trayvon Martin. |
| 1:34.4 | I was just like, why does this keep happening? |
| 1:36.2 | And I was just like so angry and so hurt and really distraught. |
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