Welcome back to The Reeducation. Again, sorry for the delay in the release of some of these episodes,

but we have been hard at work here at the reeducation, and we've got some really great episodes

coming, including the one you're about to listen to right now. This is part one of a very deep dive

into the life and legend of Bobby Kennedy through the lens of his enemies.

It's the dark side of a martyr, the story of a cop who loved to win, even if it meant playing dirty.

My guest is Tevi Troy, the reeducation's presidential historian and the creator of 1600 lessons.

You really think they're going to vote for the white guy?

Black folk have been voting white for a long time.

You come correct, we'll listen.

It's y'all they don't never vote black.

Shit, you got my vote anyway.

I don't have your vote norman you're my deputy campaign manager and i don't have your last white man i could vote for is bobby kennedy and you ain't no bobby k all right well that was

tommy car kettie the, the fictional Baltimore poll who, during his

Merrill campaign, is in conversation with his black deputy campaign manager and a former

son papers editor named Norman Wilson and also his driver, who also happens to be black.

Now, I know it's the second app in a row that I am leading with a clip from the wire.

What can I say?

It's just a great show.

But I play this because it tells us something about the RFK legacy.

You know, white liberals like Tommy Carcetti come and go, but Bobby Kay was the one who really meant it.

So the wire, of course, is fiction.

But like great works of literature and theater, and as certainly the wire is, in my view, qualifies as that, it really is capturing

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