Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

It's 207 PM on Wednesday, June 10th.

I'm Asma Khalid, I cover the presidential campaign.

I'm Claudique Adi Saleh, I cover Congress.

And I'm Kerry Johnson, I cover the Justice Department.

Kerry, it's been ages since we've seen you.

I know you were on a fellowship, a wonderful journalism fellowship for the last year.

Yeah, you know, one of the things that really struck me a year ago is I was preparing to

study was this quote by a civil rights lawyer named Brian Stevenson.

And he said we have to acknowledge the 400 years of injustice that haunts us and haunts

our system.

And he said basically we're at a moment where we're either going to double down on romanticizing

our past or accept that there's something better waiting for us.

And lo and behold, coming back to work this week, I realized we're right in the middle

of a conversation about that very topic.

Well, today on the hill, George Floyd's brother, Faloanus Floyd, testified at a House Judiciary

Committee.

And he spoke about his brother's death at the hands of Minneapolis police.

George wasn't hurting anyone that day.

He didn't deserve to die over $20.

I'm asking you, is that what a black man's worth?

$20?

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