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Sounds Like Hate

Not Okay: Part I

Sounds Like Hate

Southern Poverty Law Center

Documentary, Society & Culture, News, True Crime, News Commentary

4.6688 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Not Okay takes us inside Randolph Union High School in Vermont, where 95% of students are white. The high school is at the center of two linked battles that are tearing their community apart: whether to remove a mascot some say bears a disturbing resemblance to a hooded Klu Klux Klansman charging on a horse and whether to fly the Black Lives Matter flag.

Transcript

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0:00.0

after hearing a lot of people's stories about like being discriminated against for many different reasons

0:05.7

I decided I would want a black glass matter flag being raised we have some dug-in camps in this town

0:12.2

that if you are not extremely careful about how this unfolds they're going to get angrier and there may be violence

0:20.2

I've been physically assaulted and

0:24.2

was repeatedly called the N-word in that I was going to get shot. Sounds like hate is a new podcast

0:32.4

series from the Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm Jamila Paxima. And I'm Geraldine Moriba.

0:39.3

This first season is about how to prevent people from becoming radicalized and how some disengage

0:44.3

from a life of hatred.

0:47.3

Not OK is a two-part story.

0:50.3

The principal and teachers at Randolph Union High School in Vermont are at the center of a battle ripping their community apart.

0:58.0

Whether to remove a mascot, some say has a disturbing resemblance to a hooded Cluclux Klanzman charging on a horse, and whether to fly the Black Lives Matter flag.

1:09.0

We were granted exclusive access to document their struggle as it was happening.

1:16.7

Some of what you hear will disturb you, but keep listening.

1:20.3

These stories are far from simple.

1:39.4

In Vermont, unfortunately, if you're not white, you're black, there's no Indian, there's no Puerto Rican, there's no African American. It's all, you're just black.

1:45.6

Amy Cruz is a parent of five boys. Her fraternal twins, Amir and Akash, are biracial.

1:50.0

When we met them, they were in the ninth grade at Randolph Union High School.

1:54.5

There is a part of me that does worry about them and their safety at school.

1:59.8

Between the brothers, Amir has been the target of racial, verbal, and physical attacks. I kind of almost breathe a big sigh of relief when they get home and I always tell them

2:07.8

that I love them before I leave them off from school.

2:12.9

This school looks like almost every other high school I've seen in America. Red brick, probably built in the 60s.

2:22.3

As we arrive at the school, buses are dropping students off in the slush and snow.

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