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Welcome to the Benjamin Dixon Show.

I am your host Benjamin Dixon.

Today is Friday, May 8, 2020.

Thanks so much for joining me.

This is going to be a jam-packed episode. I have an interview with Professor

Ian Haney Lopez. He is the author of Merge Left as well as Dogwistle Politics. I'll be speaking with him after the patron party.

Also, unemployment numbers are out. Terry Reed interview with Megan Kelly, which is actually

worthwhile discussing and of course, still dealing with the tragic murder of Ahmad Arberry.

And last night, the father and son duo, Greg and Travis McMichael's, they were finally arrested

74 days after they executed and lynched that young man in Brunswick, Georgia, 74 days.

And as we discuss that shooting, it can't just be discussed in terms of the men who felt that

they had the right to go and hunt down this young black man, but also the system that protected them for 74

days and in fact would still be protected them if not for the video and the fact that the video

went viral and a nationwide movement really to

bring the his killers to justice. This system protected those men for 74 days and they still would be free right now if not for social media and all the people who got involved in this

So it's not just the murder, it's the fact that these murderers were protected by a system

that ostensibly is designed to give equal justice before the law, but we know better.

The district attorney law but we know better.

The district attorney in the city that's just outside of Brunswick where the murder took place,

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