S20 "The Africas VS. America" E6: Hellfire
The Expert Witness from Uncover
CBC
4.5 • 10.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In 1983, the City of Philadelphia elects its first Black mayor as successor to Frank Rizzo. Woodrow Wilson Goode inherits Rizzo’s fight against MOVE, but he also represents a moment of hope for Black Philadelphians who believe his election could be a harbinger of progress for a city beset with racial strife. Instead, Mayor Goode’s administration unleashes a torrent of violence never before seen in American history in an effort to neutralize MOVE once and for all.
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| 0:00.0 | The honor of all the Chief Justice and the Associate of the United States |
| 0:04.0 | Most Americans have made up their minds about the Spring Court. |
| 0:08.0 | It's either restoring justice or destroying America. |
| 0:15.0 | The Supreme Court is not going to save us. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Julia Lungoria and in this season of more perfect, we're making sense of the Spring Court today. |
| 0:22.0 | Listen to more perfect from WNYC Studios wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a CBC podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Just a heads out. |
| 0:35.0 | This episode includes explicit language. |
| 0:42.0 | He is the one. |
| 0:44.0 | Barack Obama! |
| 0:52.0 | I was 13 years old when Barack Obama was first elected president of the United States. |
| 0:58.0 | I remember so clearly the way my middle school shut down so we could all pack into the school's small library to watch his inauguration on a rickety projector. |
| 1:07.0 | My mother brought the front page of the Toronto Star back to our one bedroom apartment as a keepsake. |
| 1:13.0 | Look at him, she would say. |
| 1:15.0 | This is the future. |
| 1:19.0 | In big bold lettering, the front page read, a dream fulfilled. |
| 1:27.0 | A man that looked like me, with whom I shared so much of my face, my hair, our protruding ears, an East African heritage, and even a love of basketball. |
| 1:38.0 | President of the United States. |
| 1:41.0 | I could hardly believe it. |
| 1:45.0 | It's absurd thinking about it now. |
| 1:47.0 | I'm Canadian, and the American president has little dominion over my daily life. |
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