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Our National Conversation About Conversations A...

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🗓️ 25 February 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Authors Baratunde Thurston, Raquel Cepeda and Tanner Colby host a lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.

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0:00.0	This is our national conversation about conversations about race,
0:09.7	a.k.a. About race. Who's in the room?
0:12.6	Raquel Cepeda. I prefer Raquel Cepeda. Author.
0:16.8	You don't want us to say it with a Latino accent?
0:18.4	I mean, I don't want to offend anybody. So if you want to say Sepeda or Sepeda, it's totally up to you.
0:23.9	I'm going to go Sepeda.
0:25.0	You're going to go Sepeda?
0:26.1	Yeah, I'm going to you.
0:28.2	This is Tanner Colby, author of Some of My Best Friends Are Black, the Strange Story of Integration in America.
0:33.7	Oh, yeah, yeah, I wrote a book too, yeah. What did you write, Raphael? Peta. A bird of paradise, how I became Latina.
0:40.8	And I wrote How to Be Black.
0:43.0	No subtitles.
0:44.0	Just How to Be Black.
0:45.1	I feel like I got cheated because you guys had longer book titles than me.
0:49.8	Did you even say your name, Baraton Day Thurston?
0:52.8	Yeah.
0:53.3	That applies to all the things I said earlier.
0:55.1	That was also Baratoon Day Thurston.
0:56.7	Yes.
0:57.6	So we're here to start our national conversation about conversations about race because the national
1:04.0	conversation about race.
1:05.3	Sucks!
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