Historical Context, Controversial Acts, and the Importance of Life Insurance

0:00 A new documentary about George Floyd’s death raises new questions

5:42 John: “We’ve been lied to” about George Floyd’s death

14:27 The price of a “poetic truth”

20:09 Was the Derek Chauvin jury intimidated into delivering a guilty verdict?

23:26 Glenn: George Floyd was no hero

29:03 The burning of Minneapolis’s 3rd Precinct

34:54 Is there any hope of changing the George Floyd narrative?

41:48 Who will take responsibility for changing things in black America?

Recorded December 2, 2023

Links and Readings

Glenn and John’s May 2020 episode, “Cops and Race”

Liz Collin and JC Chaix’s documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis

Eli and Shelby Steele’s documentary, What Killed Michael Brown?

Barbershop, “OJ did it”

Coleman Hughes’s forthcoming book, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

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