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Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The Occupant is playing war games in DC- calling in the military, gassing peaceful citizens for photo-ops, using helicopters to disperse crowds,— and random city residents harbor protestors overnight; America’s police forces are out of control, even during nationwide protests about police mistreating and murdering black people; Demi heads downtown to the #dcprotests: Also, Demi’s mother (finally) agrees to an interview (about protesting) and Demi calls in a professional (Lisa Jones-Chandler) to get tips for black people about handling all this damn trauma (the murders, the viral videos, the uprisings, and either the weird, supportive corporate statements from places that are known for racism, or the profound silence from white colleagues, etc.) Also: #blacklivesmatter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectable with
0:13.0	Dimitrila O. Lucas.
0:21.7	What a week!
0:24.5	It's really hard doing a podcast right now.
0:29.1	This a month feels like a year, every day feels like a week.
0:34.4	I could probably do a podcast episode every day if I had the bandwidth and if I had the
0:40.0	time to tape and edit.
0:42.8	When I pull these episodes together each week, it's just me.
0:47.4	I don't have an assistant or a producer or an editor.
0:52.4	I try to be thorough and cover the big stories, but I feel like right now everything is a big
1:02.3	story.
1:03.6	There are protests of police violence and racial injustice in literally every state in the
1:10.3	country, multiple cities and some places.
1:13.9	There's violence in so many cities and not necessarily because the protesters are violent,
1:19.8	it's the police.
1:21.5	It's crazy.
1:24.0	Minneapolis looks like a war zone in DC.
1:29.4	DC is not a state.
1:31.1	So Trump and his, Trump and his Mary Band of Idiots have called in the military on DC.
1:40.8	They're playing some sort of reindeer war games with the city.
1:45.6	Earlier this week, I'm taping this on Wednesday, which I feel important to say because news
1:50.0	moves so fast by Thursday afternoon when this podcast publishes, it may be completely irrelevant.
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