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To the Point

Moving Beyond the Racial Crossfire

To the Point

KCRW

News

4.4583 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The election of Barack Obama raised high hopes that America’s legacy of racism had finally been overcome. But, after a week of deadly violence, the nation—and the President—face a very different reality.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Podcast.

0:03.1

Listen to the organist, the culturally omnivorous, intellectually ravenous podcast from the editors of the Believer magazine.

0:10.0

Part of poetry is learning how to speak.

0:13.5

Chili Billy.

0:15.7

I am also a horse.

0:17.4

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

0:22.5

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.

0:25.4

Find the organist on KCRW.com or wherever you download podcasts.

0:30.6

From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

0:38.4

A call for unity. What comes next?

0:44.7

Hello again. I'm Mormon Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

0:48.9

America's first black president is being forced to lead the national conversation on race.

0:53.8

He once dismissed as not

0:55.5

particularly productive. He's in Dallas to memorialize the five policemen killed in what he's called a

1:00.8

hate crime. At the same time, he's supporting the goals of Black Lives Matter. We'll hear from a

1:05.8

black journalist who's been to the heart of whiteness and talk about police reform with a white

1:10.1

cop who has three decades of service.

1:13.0

What are the prospects for that post-racial America

1:15.6

that's been so much discussed,

1:17.6

even though it's never actually happened?

1:20.2

Today's talking point,

1:21.3

the president of the Philippines,

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