As a Haitian-American who grew up in NYC, the West Indian American Day episode saddened me
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“When one participant in NYC’s Caribbean Day parade says to The This American Life reporter that the police and NYC media irresponsibly [my word] view and report on the parade as violent, I was angry at how the majority culture in the US projects it’s own transgressions on to others. When the Hasidic seven year old child said in the same episode that he was carrying child scissors to protect himself during what I have always experienced as a celebratory and exuberant parade because of what he had heard, it saddened me to see yet another example of how racism is taught in the US. This same Hasidic child was selling ice cream outside with his brother a distance away from the parade and ended up getting the most money that day from a jubilant Guyanese-American woman participant in the parade. I’m weary of people of African descent always taking the high road in the face of rampant racism.”
berni2012 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/21/19
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Jacobi via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/19/06
“Undeniably the best radio show known to man, This American Life episodes used to run around four dollars a pop. Offering WBEZ's super show as a weekly podcast is the best thing iTunes could do. Thanks iTunes!”Read full review »
shannyjean via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/19/06
“This American Life is probably the finest piece of regular programming on radio. I've been waiting for this one to come out since iTunes started publishing podcasts.”Read full review »
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United States of America ·
10/18/06
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