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Cross Talk: Season Five, Episode Eight


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On the different receptions Americans are given in Washington - depending on race.  From January 7, 2021.  What was obvious to anyone watching live video of the attack on the U-S Capitol during election certification is that the insurrectionists were mostly white.  That's something we'll have to bring back to audio reporting including radio -- describing who's there.  Because the story here for today's episode is about the difference in the way authorities prepared and reacted for a recent peaceful gathering by Black people and supporters, compared with the non-preparation for a gathering of mainly white people...whose leaders urged them to be anything but peaceful.  For educational purposes.  Makes fair dealing use of bits of audio from CNN and Sportsnet TV; all other audio is public domain.

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