Hey everybody it's Jonathan speaking sitting in my closet I was sitting in this

closet last night for a couple of hours trying to figure out what to say and then just scrapping everything because I don't know what to say.

And usually, you know, the way that we've been doing these check-ins, Stevie, Kleela, and I, we've been trying

to talk from our own experience because that's all we could do.

But right now it just doesn't feel like what needs to be heard.

I can't speak to the experience or the pain

that the black community is going through right now,

but what I do feel like I could say

is that the murderer of George Floyd

is an outrage, that the system that props up

this kind of behavior, these sorts of actions, is sick.

And I don't know what's going to come next, but I know that what came before cannot stand. I live in the Longfellow neighborhood of

Minneapolis and I went out walking on the weekend and the neighborhood was still smoldering.

I feel like everything that's happening right now is necessary and I don't

I don't even know in what way, but I have faith in that.

Before all of this started,

before the events of this past week, we'd planned an episode about teachers.

We were thinking a lot about teachers during the quarantine, about students missing their

teachers, teachers missing their teachers, teachers, missing their students.

And we have today two stories from two different women,

coincidentally, both looking for their first grade teachers.

And I don't know what they have to say about this moment. both looking for their first grade teachers.

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