Hi, this is Jenny Rentis. I'm here with Connor Orr on this week's episode of the Weekside

Podcast and no matter where you live in America, we all know this is an important time in our

country. Last week we saw the death of a Minneapolis man,

George Floyd, after a white officer,

held his knee on Floyd's neck for several minutes,

while Floyd called out in distress

and asked for his mother.

It was difficult to watch and it highlighted a problem that's existed here for 400 some years.

Now we're being asked to confront racism in new ways. In the wake of Floyd's death there have been

ongoing protests in cities across America and this was of course what Colin

Capernic was protesting four years ago.

Looking back, it's hard to imagine that the country did not heed his wake-up call.

He was not the only one speaking up.

It was not a new problem. But he did so in a way that should

have commanded our attention instead our focus was shifted onto the

method of the protest rather than the underlying problem which is something I think we see all too often and certainly have seen in the past several days.

Over the weekend the NFL seemed to take the opportunity to author a sort of revisionist history.

Still not acknowledging the role that Kappernik has played in our social consciousness and

trying to tone for some of the sins of its past.

I think Connor wanted to talk a little bit about some of those things,

some of the things that have come up from the NFL over the weekend and a little bit of a

discussion of those and at the end I think we will see to read some passages from

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