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Outside/In

What Remains, Part 2: In Memoriam

Outside/In

NHPR

Science, Natural Sciences

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A scholar and an activist make an uncompromising ultimatum.

Transcript

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0:00.0

A quick heads up for listeners, there are some swears in this episode.

0:05.0

Previously, on what remains?

0:08.0

Well, what does it mean if the museum says that it's standing in solidarity with the black

0:14.4

community if there are the remains of enslaved people that it's still on display in

0:18.8

a classroom?

0:20.8

No peace. This problem was created essentially by racist white people to begin with.

0:30.0

And I wonder how you feel about the fact that you a black man are the one stuck with cleaning up their mess.

0:35.7

Have you thought about this?

0:37.2

Well, it's, I don't, I don't look at it as being stuck with it, but it gives me resolve to see these issues through.

0:45.8

Burying people to eliminate discussion about what should happen with them is not a

0:52.1

good answer. I think we're all looking at

0:55.4

Penn Museum in Philadelphia, I have to use a term you're going to hear again and again.

1:18.0

Descendant community.

1:19.0

Descendant community. The descendant community.

1:21.0

The descendant community.

1:22.0

Descendant community.

1:24.0

And to truly understand what that means,

1:26.2

we're going to have to go back in time.

1:29.4

From box five, this is the 10 o'clock news.

1:34.0

It's a graveyard right in the heart of downtown and it's already surprising some historians.

1:39.0

New York City, 1991.

1:42.0

The federal government is building a new office building in downtown

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