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Today, Explained

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Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Two mothers talk to their teenage sons about race and police brutality in the United States. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today on the show, we're going to do something a little different.

0:14.8

For the next while, you're not going to hear from me or a journalist, you're going

0:18.6

to hear two mothers talking to their sons about the news.

0:24.0

My name is Sean Aranay.

0:25.4

I live in Washington, DC, where I've been for about 25 years now.

0:31.6

And I am an African American woman.

0:34.4

My name is Ejaz.

0:35.4

I'm a 14 year old African American male and I'm from DC.

0:40.5

How are you feeling?

0:41.5

How are you doing this week?

0:43.5

I'm tired physically.

0:46.2

You watched what happened in Minneapolis.

0:48.3

Yes.

0:49.3

I watched the reactions to it.

0:52.6

So I guess my specific question to you is how are you feeling about all of that?

0:58.2

Is that part of your exhaustion?

1:00.2

I'm all for the reactions.

1:02.4

You're for the reactions?

1:03.7

I'm all for it.

1:04.7

When you look at it, they're listening to us.

1:08.4

This whole reaction, they're actually hearing what we have to say.

1:11.8

Like George Floyd, the reason he died is because he used a counterfeit $20 bill.

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