Jacob Blake Shot by Police in Wisconsin and Roger Goodell's Fake Apology to Kap

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay discuss Sunday’s video of Jacob Blake being shot in the back by a police officer in Wisconsin (0:25), Roger Goodell’s appearance on Emmanuel Acho’s show ‘Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man’ (43:47), Megan Thee Stallion’s recent Instagram Live when she confirmed that Tory Lanez shot her in the foot (58:25), and a recent commercial for ‘The Bachelorette’ (1:11:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, yo, welcome to Higher Learning.
0:02.2	I am Van Laten.
0:03.4	I'm Rachel Lindsay.
0:05.2	I know we spent a little time warming up and getting into the podcast.
0:10.9	I hope that you had a weekend ritual.
0:12.5	I had a decent weekend, but I think that it is incumbent upon us to jump right into
0:20.3	the first topic.
0:21.9	And maybe dispense with the pleasantries a little bit this week.
0:24.8	Are you an agreement of that, Rachel?
0:27.6	Yeah, this definitely takes precedent over how your weekend was and how mine was.
0:33.1	Right.
0:34.1	If you guys don't know what we're talking about, then I'll tell you right now, there is
0:39.3	a black man right now who is fighting for his life.
0:42.9	I think he is basically one that fight with his life.
0:46.3	I would not like to speak prematurely on that, but it seems as if he is going to survive
0:51.7	this shooting that happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
0:55.7	This man's name is Jacob Blake.
0:58.3	He is 29 years old.
1:01.0	A video began to surface yesterday, as we are recording this, it is Monday.
1:05.6	A video began to surface of Jacob Blake walking around his vehicle to get into his car.
1:11.7	There are police officers following him.
1:14.4	The police officers are trying, I guess, to either detain him or to get him to stop as
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