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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Thoughts on George Floyd and the Virus of Racism in America

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Larry gives his thoughts on the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and why racism in America is like a virus that must be rooted out. Host: Larry Wilmore Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everybody, Larry, one more here.

0:08.5

Just wanted to kind of have a short check-in with everybody out there.

0:15.3

This is an on normal podcast.

0:16.6

This is a shorter one.

0:18.2

Just me kind of having a conversation with you guys.

0:20.9

Just been doing a lot of thinking.

0:22.1

I'll have some guests coming up in the next couple of weeks, but I thought it would be

0:27.6

good just to use this platform just to check in because, man, it has really been a tough

0:33.5

week.

0:34.5

It was bad enough going through the whole coronavirus thing.

0:42.0

Just as all of the institutions in America were getting ready to get back to normal racism,

0:47.4

said, nope, me first, right?

0:50.0

Jesus Christ, man.

0:52.7

Let me tell you, I was so, so disgusted by that video.

0:56.8

I've never seen anything so deliberately sadistic and just cloyingly cruel.

1:06.3

Right?

1:07.3

There was a harrowing calmness to his demeanor as he, that cop is he knelt with his hand

1:13.9

in his pocket, just this salacious self-assuredness that, by the way, that could only come from

1:19.3

someone who knew that not only would there not be punishment for his actions, but also

1:25.2

that what he was doing was right.

1:27.5

It was justified.

1:28.5

I'm saying, and part of what was so outrageous was that expression on that asshole's face.

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