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With Pace

Quarantine Companion #9: A conversation about racial justice with Christopher Blevins and Justin Williams

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8767 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, Payson and Justin are joined by fellow pro cyclist, Christopher Blevins, for a wide ranging conversation about racial justice. Growing up as one of the only people of color in his small mountain town, Chris confronted the realities of race in America from an early age, and has gone on to study criminal justice and prison reform in college. Justin shares his own experiences of growing up in a predominantly black and Latino part of Los Angeles, and how racial inequality...

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people who are so consumed by their hatred, whatever form of hatred that is, are like a drowning

0:06.4

man who is fighting off the rescue diver, you know? Like they, they want to get to the surface. They

0:11.9

want to breathe that air, but all they know is this like frantic clawing in hatred. And I think

0:18.8

it takes a hell of a lot of courage for people to want to fight for those people, you know, to want to fight to bring them to the surface.

0:27.0

And that doesn't mean that you ignore their evil, you know, fundamentally.

0:32.3

But you want to fight for their humanity even when they're dragging their humanity through the dirt.

0:38.6

It's showtime, everybody! Showtime!

0:43.4

You've been living in the dream world, Neil.

0:47.1

This is the world as it exists today.

0:52.0

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while.

0:57.0

You could miss it.

0:59.0

Listen, we're talking about practice.

1:03.0

Repeat on the dude's room.

1:05.0

Donnie, you're out of your element.

1:07.0

I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.

1:13.6

This is the adventure stash with Payson McAlvin.

1:22.6

Quarantine Companion, with co-host Justin Williams.

1:35.5

Hello and welcome back to quarantine companion.

1:38.4

This week something a bit different rather than the happy go lucky, giggly episodes, as one listener described them to me

1:47.0

that we've been having, Justin and I. We tackle current events pretty head-on today with the

1:55.2

help of Christopher Blevins, a good friend of mine, another Durango local these days. He's going to school in Cal Poly,

2:02.7

but someone who I get along with extra well because we care about a lot of the same things

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