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🗓️ 15 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Now it's time for the last word with Ali Valshi. Good evening, Ali. |
0:03.8 | Yeah, I'm one of those. I'm down on social media generally, and Blue Sky reminds me of what social media was years ago when people engaged in a respectful fashion. I enjoy that. |
0:13.7 | Yeah, yeah. I like a good kebab. And I probably, if I lived in Haddon County, New Jersey, I'd probably go to Jersey |
0:21.8 | kebob. |
0:22.4 | But those folks that you talked about at the top of your show who were protesting to get |
0:26.6 | the Amonet family, Amin Amonat released, they weren't doing it for the kebabs. |
0:33.0 | You know, that was community. |
0:34.2 | That was something that it was worth everybody in America seeing. |
0:37.3 | These are just people who believe that a member of their it was worth everybody in America seeing. These are just |
0:37.7 | people who believe that a member of their community was being treated unfairly and possibly illegally, |
0:42.8 | and they wanted to show their support. I think the kebabs are incidental to that. That was a good and |
0:48.0 | important message. Oh, thank you. I mean, for me, what was really important about that, Ali, was just that |
0:54.0 | what they were doing was not rocket science. |
0:57.0 | What they were doing was the kind of stuff you learn in third grade civics class. |
1:00.5 | You know what I mean? |
1:01.3 | Write letters, talk to your local officials, have a protest, engage people, talk to the local media. |
1:06.5 | They just pulled out the stops. |
1:08.0 | They didn't do anything radical. |
1:09.3 | They just stood up decently for somebody in their |
1:11.3 | community. And I just felt like it was a real model had in a township, New Jersey, what they did there. |
1:16.4 | And it worked. Basic democratic agency is what they were demonstrating. And basic decency, |
1:21.7 | looking out for your neighbors. It was a good one. So far, it's working. So thanks for that story. |
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