You Must Remember this... January 6th

While major news outlets are running stories about Venezuelan's President Maduro's arrest that happened days earlier, what they should be reminding the world about is the attack on the U.S. capital on January 6th, 2021. 

*Note: I may have referenced 2020 during recording, but the correction is 2021, following the 2020 presidential election. 

This is the 2nd time, I am asking listeners to check out investigative journalism courtesy of NPR. NPR is not a sponsor and I have no affiliation with the station. I love listening to podcast and will continue to share items that are relevant to our chats.

NPR's YouTube story with Two police officers visiting one of America's darkest days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvL4sXhGrYs

Music by Mound City by Coleman Hawkins (recorded 1929)

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This podcast is recorded in a style that pays homage to talents like Miss Monitor (Tedi Thurman) and explores topics designed to stimulate conversations. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

My name is the lovely Ray, and I was born and raised in the US. I currently have the opportunity to speak with people from all over the world. Regular people, just like you. And I'm always fascinated by the cultural differences and similarity. This podcast is Voice in the Style of the Sultray Sounding 1955 Weather Girl. It is a collection of thoughts inspired by my global conversations and aims to invite you to have those hard conversations out loud and with others. Thanks for stopping by, darlings. I love to chat. Welcome back, darlings. I too hope you are well. Today we're gonna keep things short and sweet. Today happens to be January sixth, twenty twenty six, at the time that I'm recording this. And I don't know about you, but this day, the sixth of January, for me as a US citizen, I will always find this day to be a day filled with deep thought and sadness. You see, it was only six years ago when insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol.

SPEAKER_00 1:56

They went to the doors of Congress and demanded the head of Vice President Mike Pence. They erected a scaffold with a noose. These criminals, these delusional bullies, they attacked U.S.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

police officers who were just trying to do their job, which is to protect Congress. The votes were counted, and the new president was born in. Now, regardless of whether or not you believe the U.S. election was stolen from President Trump in 2020, regardless of whether or not you feel that these individuals who marched on the Capitol were simply rightfully expressing their distrust and disgust with the election process. Regardless of what conspiracies you might buy into, it is inexcusable to condone the level of violence that occurred on that day. The very fact that these individuals who were arrested have been pardoned and released from prison is one that hurts me very deeply.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

And that hurt is because I realized just how fucking corrupt so many politicians are. But this podcast is not about him. This podcast is not about evil.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

This podcast is simply about sparking a conversation between one kind soul and another. And so as you dive into these episodes, I want to remind you that the ideas that you have during and after an episode, these ideas are ones that should not be kept locked up. They should not be pushed aside, forgotten, ignored.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Set them free, baby.

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Share your ideas with your loved ones, your friends, share them with strangers. Hell.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

You can share them with me.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

The fact is, you're taking the time to think, to honor your thoughts, not push them aside, not pacify yourself by watching more TikTok, more funny dancing cat videos, eating more decadent food, eating more fast food, drinking more alcohol, taking more shrooms, smoking more legalized pot in order to cope with all the madness.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

No. Have those thoughts. Express your thoughts.

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Talk to others. Be willing to be open to new ideas, different ideas. Do more research. Find out where you're right and where you're wrong. And be willing to find a way to get along with others, even if it feels scary at first.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

But do not forget that so many people are hurting and have hurt.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

And all of this pain can be resolved if we just continue to think for ourselves, continue to be curious about one another, and to never give up. My darlings, I do encourage you to check out NPR's coverage of January 6th. There's a really wonderful episode on the YouTube, on NPR's YouTube channel, where there are two officers who were viciously and violently attacked, they are revisiting the day by looking at their own body cam footage and it's something worth seeing. Because despite attempts to reposition January 6, 2020 as a day of peaceful protests, it was not.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

And this very real footage is something that everyone should see, and everyone should be talking about.