Get a Change of Scenery (with Kimberley Motley)

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

DeRay, Kaya, De'Ara, and Sam dive into recent overlooked news including Iowa's voter suppression, national standards for police training, curfew laws, and Chadwick Boseman's thoughts on the pain of being young, gifted, and Black. Johnetta Elzie joins again to update us about developments around the current protests. Then, DeRay chats with human rights attorney and activist Kimberley Motley about police violence and the latest tragedy in Wisconsin. Links: DeRay De'Ara Kaya Sam

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Durey and we're going to potsy the people in this episode.
0:04.8	It's me, Kaya Tiara, and Sam as usual.
0:07.9	We talk about the news that you don't know that happened in the past week.
0:11.1	Then we have a quick check in from Netta talking about what's going on with the protest.
0:15.5	And then I sit down with Kimberly Motley, who's a human rights attorney and activist from
0:19.1	Wisconsin to discuss police violence.
0:21.6	Now since we recorded this, Kimberly now represents the survivor who was shot by the white
0:27.5	supremacist teenager in Kenosha.
0:30.1	And she represents a host of protesters as well in Kenosha and in Wauwatosa.
0:36.6	Excited to have her here.
0:37.6	I learned so much in this conversation.
0:40.1	My advice for this week is to get a change of scenery.
0:43.8	Sometimes a change of scenery is physical.
0:47.2	It is a trip.
0:48.2	It is going to somebody else's house.
0:50.2	And sometimes a change of scenery is a mindset.
0:53.4	One of the reasons why I love fiction so much is that it literally just puts me in a different
0:57.2	world.
0:58.2	One of the reasons why people get so absorbed in TV shows is like it's a different world.
1:03.4	In the past week, I traveled to see some friends and socially distanced and did it right.
1:10.0	And that was a great change of scenery.
1:11.8	But also I've been trying to read some more fiction.
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