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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
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🗓️ 26 June 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome back. This is Larry Bowen. You are listening to Black on the air. |
| 0:12.0 | Man, there's so much going on every week. It's hard to even figure out what to weigh in a... |
| 0:19.0 | I didn't get a chance to last week. We aired the live talks LA that I do now and then usually I do them front of an audience. |
| 0:27.0 | Last week we had Michael Lewis. So it was with them. So I didn't really have a chance to weigh in. |
| 0:32.0 | I wanted to just thank white people for celebrating Juneteenth. I thought that was very nice of you. |
| 0:38.0 | I love that Black people. Before this, most white people really didn't care that much about Juneteenth. |
| 0:44.0 | I mean, it was nice. We acknowledged it. I learned about it when I was a kid, you know. |
| 0:47.0 | But we never celebrated it. But it was so fun to get white people to really take it arguably more seriously than I think most of us have. |
| 0:56.0 | Some people really do celebrate, especially in the South, especially in Texas where it was relevant. |
| 1:01.0 | I should say more relevant than anywhere else because that's where it happened. |
| 1:05.0 | But it looks like we're on our way to a permanent Juneteenth holiday. So there you go. Well done, everybody. |
| 1:11.0 | Well done. Makes my heart happy. |
| 1:14.0 | So look, I don't have a lot of time for to know him. I'll make this kind of brief today. |
| 1:20.0 | But you know what I did want to talk about. I just wanted to talk a little bit about how can I put this? |
| 1:28.0 | I guess the difference between being being mad and upset about something and then figuring out what to do about something. |
| 1:39.0 | I think those are two different things. I think it's good if they're in two different buckets. |
| 1:46.0 | Because I think they come from two different places. I think the act of being angry about something doesn't necessarily mean we have the prescription for the solution. |
| 1:57.0 | It may those that are fed up may have the prescription or they may not or a lot of people may be mad at something and those people that are mad may have different ideas of how to go forward. |
| 2:10.0 | And I feel right now what I'm concerned about is that you know I feel like everybody's hearts are in the right place when it comes to the protest. |
| 2:22.0 | But I'm not sure if we're have clear thinking or consensus when it comes to the the prescriptions. |
| 2:30.0 | You know, and this is just my opinion. I could be run. And by the way, this is just my opinion. So I don't know. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. You know, it's very trust me. It's very possible that I don't know what I'm talking about. |
| 2:43.0 | So this is I'm just putting this out as my opinion. And you know what it is. Here's what it really is. It's more of a cautionary tell more than anything else. I just want to make sure that we all have skin in the game in a way forward. |
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