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From Rodney King to Jaden Pierre: Why We Only Record Now
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"We became our own worst enemy through the guise of technology."
On this episode of Broken Traditions, Leron Gaskins (Big Ellie) traces a devastating timeline of how the Black community became desensitized to its own demise. We begin in St. Albans, Queens, with the tragic killing of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre—a boy who was not in a gang, yet was sacrificed for "content" as bystanders recorded his final moments instead of calling for help. Leron explores the Digital Incarceration of our culture, moving from the horrific images of Lynching used to terrify us, to the Rodney…
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