I Used to Believe in Reparations
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The city of San Francisco is considering a massive reparations program, even though slavery was never legal in California. But not everyone is on board.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Sidelined Sanity with me, Michelle Tofoy. |
| 0:04.3 | Hey, hit that subscribe button. |
| 0:05.5 | We'd love to have you as regular listeners. |
| 0:07.4 | Every day we try to present really good content. |
| 0:11.2 | And today is about reparations. |
| 0:14.6 | Reparations are something that I at one point in my life thought was a good idea. |
| 0:19.0 | I had read some Eremax Kendi. |
| 0:23.9 | And then I realized what he writes about is really anecdotal. And it's not that these stories aren't important. They're very |
| 0:28.9 | important. What happened in the time of slavery, in the way blacks have been marginalized |
| 0:35.9 | African Americans here in America for a long time is awful. |
| 0:41.1 | And there have been some reparations along the way. |
| 0:45.0 | But right now in California, San Francisco, to be specific, there is a reparations plan in being considered that you've just got to hear to believe. And we've got some |
| 0:56.0 | reaction to it from someone who used to be part of Black Lives Matter, but is no longer. He says he's |
| 1:03.1 | sort of opened his eyes to see what's a little more honest look at everything. That's next. |
| 1:13.9 | For nearly three decades, she's reported the action from the sidelines. |
| 1:18.6 | She started very young. |
| 1:20.0 | She's covered the NBA, NFL, Olympics, and the college football and basketball national championships. |
| 1:26.4 | And now, during these insane times in our world, Michelle Tofoya thinks we need a serious dose |
| 1:33.2 | of sanity. |
| 1:35.1 | This is sideline sanity with your host, one of the sanest people on planet Earth. |
| 1:41.6 | Michelle Tofoya. |
| 1:47.7 | So if you don't know what reparations are, they are a way to sort of repair for the past, |
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