It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Monday, June 1st.

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Brian Lera on WNYC as we continue our coverage

of the uprisings against police brutality

here in New York and around the country and with me now Ijoma Oluo author of the uprisings against police brutality here in New York and around the country.

And with me now, Ijoma Oluo, author of The New York Times and Wall Street Journal,

bestselling book.

So you want to talk about race and her forthcoming mediocre, the dangerous legacy of white male America.

She is Seattle-based and joins us from there.

Yajoma, we really appreciate you making time for us, and I know it's early out there.

Welcome to WNYC.

Hello.

So it's not new, obviously, that incidents of police brutality get caught on video and make the news.

Why do you think the killing of George Floyd was the final

straw to a nationwide response like the country hasn't seen in 50 years?

You know, I think that it's really just a culmination of what has really been a brutal couple of

years, especially for Black America. This is, you know, coming off of

the murder of so many other black people in this country, but also I think we're right in the

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