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308 - "A Year of Reckoning, Return to the Ramble, Objectivity (or Something)"

The Fifth Column

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Rodney King and Derek Chauvin - That's Right.

Nobody defended Derek Chauvin when Rodney King was beaten by by five thousand LAPD cops on videotape with very, very racist names to the cops. I think they got lost in all of this and it still gets lost even in all these retrospectives. You'd think that there'd be enough time and space in the journalism's in between dodging life fire in George Floyd Square to mention offensive. Stacey had a last name that was Rachel slur. That's how racist it was.

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