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🗓️ 5 June 2025
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Today’s poem is The Feeling by Ari Banias.
The Slowdown is currently taking a break. We’ll be back soon with new episodes from a new host. This week, we’re going back into the archive to revisit Tracy K. Smith’s time as host. Today’s episode was originally released on August 27, 2020.
In this episode, Tracy writes… “We are living through what I want to believe is an awakening. Many people who have never given an injustice like racism much thought are beginning to think about it. Now what? What are those who are awake to this reality willing to give up, change, renounce, replace in order to begin righting age-old wrongs? And what’s next?”
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1:37.4 | We are living through what I want to believe is an awakening. |
1:44.1 | Many people who have never given an injustice like racism, much thought, are beginning to think about it. |
1:53.3 | They're beginning to recognize that it's not a theoretical abstraction affecting faceless, faraway strangers. Now they see it. Now they believe those of us who have |
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