Racism Cont'd
What A Day
What A Day
4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
George Floyd was killed by police officers in Minneapolis this week, in an abusive and excessive show of force. We discuss his murder and the incident in Central Park this Monday where a white woman threatened Christian Cooper, a black man, distorting the facts in an apparent attempt to evoke an aggressive law enforcement response. Click here for anti-racism resources and organizations to follow.
This election will be unlike any other and will require a specialized approach from organizers and activists. We talk to Crooked’s political director Shaniqua McClendon about the Adopt-A-State program, and how we can help get out the vote in key battleground states from the comfort of our homes. Head to votesaveamerica.com/adopt to find out more.
And in headlines: Twitter fact checks Trump, SpaceX to launch its first crewed-shuttle today, and St. Louis asks people to self-quarantine if they partied in the Ozarks.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, May 27th. I'm Achila Hughes. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Gideon Resseneck and this is what a day where we're keeping a comprehensive list of which candidates for president wear a mask. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, so far it is one mask and one no mask. Not going to say which one is which. |
| 0:19.0 | The list is very brief. |
| 0:21.0 | On today's show, we're going to check in on how the pandemic is changing, get out the vote efforts, then we'll have some headlines. |
| 0:31.0 | We're going to start the show with two stories about racism in America. |
| 0:35.0 | The first ends somewhere near justice. The second ends in death. |
| 0:39.0 | On Monday, Christian Cooper, a 57 year old black Harvard graduate and Audubon society member, was bird watching in Central Park. |
| 0:46.0 | And nearby, a white woman, Amy Cooper openly broke a rule for that area of the park to let her dog run wild off the leash. |
| 0:53.0 | The black man asked her to put her dog on a leash, read the fucking rules of the park. |
| 0:57.0 | And this white woman was so mad that a black person told her to follow a rule that she called the police. |
| 1:02.0 | She lied about being threatened. She mentioned several times that he was African-American. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm going to trouble there's an African-American man threatening my life. And there is a man African-American. |
| 1:10.0 | There is an African-American man. I mean, it's a good work. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I think she just said that, you know, just in case the police didn't think she was really threatened. |
| 1:19.0 | In America, being black means you're inherently a threat. And when you're white, you're inherently innocent. |
| 1:24.0 | She was hoping she could convince the police to, at best, come and arrest this man in the park, and pity her, a poor defenseless white woman and her white dog. |
| 1:32.0 | The man took a video of the encounter on his phone. The video came out. She was swiftly identified. |
| 1:37.0 | And yesterday, she lost her job as a vice president at an investment firm. |
| 1:41.0 | Her dog was repossessed by the shelter she adopted it from. And the Audubon society dragged her in a tweet in part saying, |
| 1:47.0 | quote, the outdoors and the joy of birds should be safe and welcoming for all people. |
| 1:52.0 | A sentiment I agree with, but wow, did it really need to be said? |
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