Why Now, White People?

Code Switch

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The video is horrific, and the brutality is stark. But that was the case in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 and Minnesota in 2016. This time, though, white people are out in the streets in big numbers, and books such as "So You Want to Talk About Race" and "How to Be an Antiracist" top the bestseller lists. So we asked some white people: What's different this time?

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0:00.0	Just to heads up y'all, the following episode contains some salty language, which means it's gonna be some custom.
0:06.8	I'm Shireen Marisol Maraji.
0:08.8	I'm Jean Demby and this is Code Switch.
0:11.7	From NPR.
0:13.5	Alright, Shireen. So it seems like the country is having a racial reckoning.
0:19.2	Again, as of when we are recording this, this is what the top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list looks like.
0:27.2	White fragility.
0:28.4	So you want to talk about race, how to be an anti-racist, me and white supremacy, and the New Jim Crow.
0:36.4	That's quite a list.
0:37.5	Mm-hmm.
0:38.0	That list kind of blows my mind.
0:39.9	And there was a similar one on Amazon.
0:42.4	And it does make sense because all over social media, there are these hay white people.
0:46.0	You need to read this list.
0:48.0	They're everywhere.
0:49.2	I mean, we were the number one podcast on iTunes for a quick minute.
0:53.6	Yeah, we got the screen grabs and everything.
0:55.7	It happened.
0:56.3	Please believe me, mom, it happened.
0:57.9	Oh, I sent that to my mom.
0:59.6	At first, I couldn't figure out what was going on.
1:01.6	Like, I just suddenly had thousands of new Instagram followers.
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