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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Ibtihaj Muhammad’s Unlikely American Dream | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 46)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore talks about Trump’s meeting with Putin (1:00) before sitting down to chat with Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad about her decision to wear a hijab in competition and the racial and religious prejudices she has faced as a black Muslim American (12:54). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright, welcome back, this layer one more. I'm black in the air.

0:10.1

The world's still standing. America's still here, you guys.

0:12.9

America's here. It's America. After the hell and hell's sinky.

0:19.4

Whew, man, what a week. This president, I mean, he's gonna give us all harder tanks, he

0:24.6

guys. It is crazy. I've never seen anything like what just happened in Hell's Sinky

0:30.5

Bollywood, but we're real, we're really good show today. Um, um, Ip di Hatch,

0:35.7

Muhammad, who was a Muslim, a fan sir for the US Olympic team, first one to wear

0:41.0

hijab, I believe it was on the show. We had great conversation last week.

0:44.0

I think you'll enjoy that. But man, there's so much to unpack in this Trump

0:47.6

stuff. It just, it keeps getting worse. Here is a, a, um, an equation that I'm

0:54.1

gonna give you a Trump equation, okay? It will always get worse in an

0:58.7

away you never imagined. Okay? Just remember that. That's always gonna continue

1:04.1

to happen and mark my words. Okay? This, this is going to always happen. It

1:08.1

will always get worse. We'll always happen. And the second part in an away, you

1:12.8

could never imagine. Okay? I could never imagine Donald Trump in front of the

1:20.1

world, standing in front of the world with the leader of, you know, the X KGB

1:28.0

officer, um, his boy Putin standing right there and throwing his own intelligence

1:35.3

agency, you guys, he's standing with an X KGB officer. Think about this. He's

1:39.8

standing next to an X KGB officer and he throws his own intelligence agency

1:47.1

under the bus. Basically saying, fuck them. I don't believe that it's all a

1:54.8

witch hunt. Baba, Baba Putin told me this. I, what am I supposed to do? Not

2:00.0

believe him? I don't know. He seems believable because he wants to be liked by him

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