We Grieve Charlottesville

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What happened in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend was the largest public melee during a presidential administration that includes men with white nationalist ties. Three people were killed, dozens of people were injured and the country was thrown into a state of anguish and shock. The show was on vacation, but we came back early to do a special episode about Charlottesville. We talk about why the violence there isn’t surprising, what it means to remove totems of the American Confederacy and what a verbal apology from President Trump is really worth.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.4	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:02.8	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.4	I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.2	And I'm mostly right about how popular culture and movies relate to humans.
0:13.1	This is still processing.
0:25.0	Hey, friend.
0:26.0	Hi.
0:26.8	How are you doing?
0:28.0	I'm sad, actually.
0:30.0	I mean, it's an existential sadness.
0:32.0	I am not going to hitch my sadness to what happened over the weekend.
0:36.4	But I was on vacation.
0:38.8	The show was on vacation.
0:40.4	For some reason, all hell breaks loose in Charlottesville, Virginia.
0:44.8	For many reasons, which we're going to get into.
0:46.4	I don't know.
0:47.3	I feel like we had to come back and talk to each other about it,
0:51.2	because it seemed crazy not to.
0:53.4	What is the point of having this show of when things like this happen?
0:55.9	We can't talk about them.
0:57.6	And every time these things come up, I get down,
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