Hello everybody, welcome to the Michael Steel Podcast on Michael Steel.

This has been a tough couple of weeks and there's a lot on my mind.

I know there's a lot on your mind out there and there's a lot of things that I think we

have to put in perspective as we grapple with COVID-19, unemployment in the country now,

almost 40 plus million people, and certainly the death of George Floyd, which has rocked

not just the United States but has ricocheted around the world.

And I got someone joining us today, I'm very excited to talk to about all of this.

She is an incredible trendsetter, pacemaker in terms of a lot of these big issues that we grapple with.

Angela Rye, a CNN political commentator, CEO of Impact Strategies, a political strategy firm,

with a cutting edge approach to achieving clients' goals in the nation's capital and beyond.

And she's the host of her own podcast, on one with Angela Rye, on one with Angela Rye.

And we've got her on my podcast, happy you dropped by.

It's my pleasure.

Absolutely. Well, I wanted to open up the conversation from a perspective that I thought was pretty interesting.

One of the things that has struck me time and time again, as these events

occur, is whether it's Freddie Gray, out of Baltimore or Traylon Martin.

And now with George Floyd is the surprise that the white community has about how black folks

have to approach these things. I tell people all the time, and I remember the first time I brought

it up on Morning Joe and Eugene Robinson did the same. I was like, look, I had to sit my sons down

when they got of age to go out and hang out and run with their boys and let them know that you

can't run the way your white friends run. Because you're going to want to run away from some cops

that are all out of mess. And it's the moment that I think crystallized for me was Atlanta Mayor

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