"This Has Been A Long Time Coming."

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We asked you what you needed to say in this moment of reckoning with police brutality, structural racism, and grief. Here's what you told us.

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0:00.0	I should not be fighting the same fight that my grandparents fought.
0:05.3	This is disgraceful.
0:07.5	This is death, sex, and money.
0:12.8	This is been a long time coming.
0:14.6	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:18.0	I just feel angry and overwhelmed and need to talk about more.
0:22.8	I'm really hoping this gets us somewhere because I'm sick and tired of being in the same
0:26.8	place.
0:27.8	I'm Anna Sale.
0:30.2	And this week, a lot of you have told us what you need to say right now.
0:34.0	In this moment of protest against racism and anguish about recent brutality, illness, and
0:40.3	devastating loss.
0:42.1	I'm used to racism being a thing in the background.
0:44.4	I'm used to racism being something that's subtle and something that is it in your face.
0:50.3	But right now, it feels super point blank and straightforward in a way that's hard
0:56.3	to deny and it just feels like, oh, y'all don't, y'all don't even care who sees.
1:00.4	I think what I need to say is, I'm struggling.
1:06.1	I'm not doing well.
1:07.4	I cry, hurts, my heart.
1:10.0	So it's a physically it hurts.
1:12.1	I want to scream.
1:13.7	Friends ask if I'm okay and I tell them I'm not because I'm not.
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