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The Midnight Miracle

Dave Chappelle, Talib Kweli, yasiin bey

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

“I'm terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country.”—James Baldwin

Featuring, in order of appearance: Questlove and Radio Rahim

Contains clips of James Baldwin and music from Minoru Muraoka.

Recorded in Ohio, Summer 2020

Executive Produced by Talib Kweli, yasiin bey, Dave Chappelle, Noah Gersh, Jamie Schefman, Nick Panama, Kenzi Wilbur, and Miles Hodges

Produced by Noah Gersh and Jamie Schefman for SALT

Production Manager: Liz LeMay

Recording Engineer: Federico Lopez

Recording Engineer: Adrián Bruque for NPND

Assistant Editors: Danny Carissimi and Noah Kowalski

Senior Sound Designer: Russell Topal

Transcription Supervisor: Sam Beasley

Mixer: Jordan Galvan

Podcast Artwork: Rachel Eck

Still Photography: Mathieu Bitton

The Midnight Miracle is a Luminary Original Podcast in partnership with Pilot Boy Productions and SALT.

Special thanks to Paul Adongo, Cipriano Beredo, Elaine Chappelle, Ivy Davy, Rikki Hughes, Kyle Ranson-Walsh, Sina Sadighi, Mark Silverstein, and Carla Sims.

Transcript

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0:21.0	I'm terrified at the moral apathy the death of the heart which is happening in my country. These people had alluded to themselves for so long that they really don't think I'm human.
0:28.0	I had races on their conduct, not on what they say.
0:32.0	And this means that they have become themselves
0:35.0	moral monsters.
0:38.0	Well, Jim, I can see...
0:41.0	That's a terrible indictment.
0:42.0	Yes.
0:43.0	I mean every word I say.
0:45.0	Well, we are confronted with the racial confrontation in America today I think the pictures of dogs in the hands of human beings
1:00.8	attacking other human beings in a free country in the middle of the 20th century
1:06.0	this Birmingham clearly not restricted to Birmingham as you so eloquently pointed out,
1:14.0	what do you think can be done
1:19.0	to change, to use your term the moral fiber of America.
1:27.0	We are the real Americans.
1:30.0	We are the real Americans.
1:32.0	We're the only ones that didn't volunteer for this
1:34.4	fucking experiment you made us do it you put us at a wild disadvantage and you blame
1:40.5	us for it constantly and we're still beautiful. We really are. We're a moral
1:46.0	compass like Baldwin said many years before we ever were born. We are America's
1:51.6	moral compass.
1:52.6	We're the original fuck up of this country.
1:55.2	Now, well, shout out to Native Americans, my bad natives.
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