We’re Freaking Out About O.J. and Girls Trip

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The country was barely on the other side of a period of deep thought about the cultural meaning of O.J. Simpson, and then last week we found out that O.J. will be a free man this October. We explore the vexing empathy that racism toward him inspires in us. Second, we can’t believe how much fun we had watching "Girls Trip"! Comedies starring black women – in which they aren’t the butt of the joke – are virtually non-existent. We cheer the movie for giving us four fun, sexual black women without also denying their humanness.

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.5	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:03.0	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.6	I'm mostly worried about how humans relate to technology.
0:08.2	And I mostly wonder about why they only talk about
0:11.3	girl strip as being a black movie.
0:13.3	Ha ha ha.
0:14.9	This is still processing.
0:26.9	So welcome back to our show.
0:29.6	Let's talk about what's hot this week.
0:31.2	I have now heard wild thoughts.
0:33.7	DJ Khaled, Rihanna, Bryson Tiller.
0:36.5	I hear it as my song of the summer parameter is dictate at the store,
0:41.6	at the beach, because I went to the beach over the weekend.
0:44.7	Yeah, you sent me a pin.
0:45.7	How rude.
0:46.2	You dropped a pin in your location.
0:47.7	Gave me no time to meet you there.
0:48.8	It's cool.
0:49.6	Despacito, we just found out is going to spend
0:52.6	it's 11th week as the number one song in a row.
0:56.9	11th straight weeks.
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