Radio Rookies is supported in part by Epstein Tysher Philanthropies, the Annie

E. Casey Foundation, and the Margaret Newbart Foundation.

This is the United States of Anxiety. I'm Kai Wright, and I want you to meet

Falacidae Olatunde. She's part of WNYC's Radio Rookies program, which is this

incredible award-winning program that gives young people in the city the tools and

the training to tell audio stories about their own communities.

Falacidae spent the last year recording audio diaries about a relationship with

her dad, and this is a pretty challenging thing for her to talk about. The

relationship, it's been tough, because her dad has been incarcerated since she

was two years old. She's 25 years old now. Falacidae was too young to know what

happened the night that law enforcement came and took her dad. So she asked her mom

what went down that night. I heard a boom at the door. So I jumped up, ran in the

room, and told them that somebody is at the door. And as she got to the door, it was

about maybe like 10 or 12 of them came in the house. And they ransacked the whole

apartment. I mean, they took clothes, everything. Look all in your drawers,

everything, just throw everything on the floor. Do you remember where I was and

what I was doing? They took you out the bed and brought you in the living room,

and you would just stay in there, you know, like crying because you don't know,

you can, you can feel you don't know what's going on. You know, you're, you're a baby,

so you don't know what's going on. And it's nothing that I can really do because

they had me in handcuffs for no reason. I've never been arrested in my life.

Falacidae's dad was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for selling drugs.

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