Why the most productive conversations around race, are probably the ones you never hear.

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🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Michele Norris, NPR's first female African American host and founder of The Race Card project, talks about America's foundational ailment and how race is an integral part of our national discourse.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up.
0:07.0	Michelle Norris is the former host of NPR's All Things Considered.
0:13.7	And while there, she undertook an incredible project,
0:16.6	the Race Card Project, in which she asks people
0:19.6	to tell a personal story on race in just six words. After she left the radio network in 2015,
0:26.4	Norris expanded the project. What better way to honor Black History Month than
0:30.7	revisiting an episode that reminds us that we all have a story on race.
0:37.0	Michelle Norris, thanks for being on the podcast.
0:41.0	I'm so glad to be here. Thank you so much. Well thank you again. So one of the
0:45.2	reasons why I was a little late getting downstairs to greet you in the lobby is that I was getting my
0:50.5	tickets for Black Panther. I have not seen it yet.
0:53.0	Oh, what?
0:54.0	What?
0:55.0	I know, I know.
0:56.0	I haven't seen it yet, but by the time this episode airs, I will have seen it.
0:59.0	Oh, but we have to talk about it.
1:01.0	Well, no, we're going to talk about it.
1:03.2	And I want to get into it by asking you that,
1:05.5	should we be surprised by how wildly successful Black Panther is? No, we should not be surprised by this.
1:15.0	I'm not surprised by it.
1:17.0	I wouldn't be surprised if Hollywood is surprised by it.
1:21.0	Yeah.
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