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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Nikole Hannah-Jones on George Floyd and the History of Systemic Racism in America

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Larry weighs in on the movement to defund the police and the killing of Breonna Taylor. Then, he is joined by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones to talk about how the killing of George Floyd was a wake-up call for white Americans (13:06), her work on the 1619 Project for the Times (30:41), and the white-washing of America's history (40:40). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Nikole Hannah-Jones Check out the 1619 Project here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right everybody, welcome back. This is Larry Wilmore, you listening to Black

0:09.1

I'm the air. Got more of a normal show this week after doing kind of a short

0:13.7

weigh-in last week. Author of the 1619 project, Nicole Hannah Jones is my guest.

0:20.7

We had a good talk the other day about her project. It's really, really

0:25.2

real fascinating. Something that everybody, especially these days, everybody

0:30.6

should take a look and read it and New York Times Magazine. It's online. They

0:33.9

also have a podcast too, 1619 podcast. It's really worth listening to them. And

0:39.2

we talked a lot about the crazy stuff that's going on right now and a lot of the

0:43.8

legacy in history of, you know, going back to slavery here in America and

0:49.7

treatment of blacks in America. Lots of historical information you guys. There's a

0:53.8

lot of stuff, a lot of stuff for all of us to learn and to be reminded of. In

1:01.4

times like this, it's been a crazy week though. I want to thank everybody for

1:06.0

listening to me last week. It was kind of a short show. It was just me weighing in

1:10.9

on the whole situation. I appreciate you listening and sharing that. A lot of

1:15.0

people shared it and, you know, just trying to put my thoughts out there. And it's

1:20.7

interesting to watch these protests continue to happen, especially on a

1:26.0

global basis that these things are happening around the world. I've just never

1:30.1

seen it quite like this. It's really fascinating. So many people, you know, it

1:34.6

feels like there's different behavior going on with this. And, you know, most of

1:38.1

the time in this happens because I've covered it before. And I'm talking about

1:41.1

when there's violence against usually unarmed blacks and police situations that

1:45.7

ends in, you know, in death. I've covered this on the nightly show, you know, in

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