Interview: Best of 2020 Part 3, Black Women Athletes Speak Out

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4.5 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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0:58.4	We're saying you up and I spit you out and I'll play with the famous to the scream and shout. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Flame throwers. Now that our interviews are stand alone, we thought it would be really important to re-release Amira's very special Black women athletes speakout episode that aired on June 5th, 2020.
1:06.5	Amira dove deep and had conversations with athletes, including Kelsey Bone, Gwen Berry,
1:13.5	AJ Andrews, Soraya Tinker, Zara King, Ellie Jean, Zariah Kouraz, Belkis Abdul-Qadir,
1:22.2	Batuli Kamara, Alana Gardner, and Dr. Miriam Aziz.
1:26.9	This is one of the most powerful, powerful episodes of the year,
1:31.3	and we are so honored to bring it to you again today.
1:40.4	Hi, Flamethrowers. Amira here with a very special episode of Burn It All Down. If you've
1:47.2	listened to this week's episode 161, you would have heard my co-host and myself talking about the
1:53.2	recent harmful anti-trans athlete rulings and athletes in the Movement for Black Lives in the wake of
1:59.5	the killing of George Floyd by the MPD.
2:03.1	If you listened to that episode, you heard us highlight athletes speaking out, struggling through, and making sense out of the killings of Floyd, and also Brianna Taylor, and Tony McDade.
2:13.1	You also would have heard us bringing us our usual burn pile, and we shouted out badass women
2:19.2	of the week who this week were all the black female athletes speaking up.
2:23.0	But you may have noticed that we did not include an interview.
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