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The Case of Dr. Yusef Salaam in Times of COVID
📻 Episode #130
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 04, 2020
About This Episode
Conflicting survival instincts and an internet full of misinformation has left many of us in disagreement over what is the best path forward. Once again, Jason Flom taps the wisdom of our wrongfully convicted community, while so many struggle.
The Case
Conflicting survival instincts and an internet full of misinformation has left many of us in disagreement over what is the best path forward. Once again, Jason Flom taps the wisdom of our wrongfully convicted community, while so many struggle.
In the 4th and final interview of our mini series from Wrongful Conviction Podcasts, one of the Central Park. 5, now the Exonerated 5, Dr Yusef Salaam, pulls from a deep reservoir of philosophical and spiritual learning to guide us all in making lemonade out of the lemons that we find ourselves with today. You can hear his story in both his own interview, season 6 episode 8, through the voice of his co-defendant Raymond Santana in our podcast’s premiere episode, or in the Netflix mini series “When They See Us.”
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00:03:30“Speaker 1: And speaking of your mission, since you appeared on the show, Speaker 1: of course, the incredible documentary about the Central Park five Speaker 1: When They See Us was released to great critical acclaim Speaker 1: as well as to I think a wonderful response from Speaker 1: the audience. So how has that changed your life? If”
00:13:12“Speaker 2: Man, it's crazy because of course, we are a few Speaker 2: days into Ramadan, and I'm a Muslim, I'm a practice Speaker 2: in Muslim and I'm fasting. And what gets me all Speaker 2: the time around this time of the year is that Speaker 2: we have to reorient ourselves to our scripture, which is”
00:23:06“Speaker 1: I have to go do something, it's like no, no, Speaker 2: Go do whatever. You don't have to do it, right. Speaker 1: So it's really just sometimes changing one word and change Speaker 1: your whole perspective. And I appreciate you reminding me of that. Speaker 1: So this is the part of the show that our”
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Also on the podcast: #100 Dr. Yusef Salaam · #124 Damien Echols in Times of COVID · #126 Amanda Knox in Times of COVID