Episode 16: Saying Nothing is Always an Option

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10/10/20 • 88 min

Reny, Q, Nina and Ali return to our roots laughing at the contradictions in electoral politics and neoliberal support of Joe Biden, the "Get Well Fascism" campaigns from Ava Duvernay and other Black folks in the entertainment class when Trump was announced to have COVID, Trump as the Typhoid Mary of the Republican party, and the weird democratic allegiance to "decorum" and "honor" with folks who have neither.

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Episode 15: Discourse on Colorism

Nina, Ali, and Jamel dive deep into analyzing anti-Blackness as a white supremacist power structure with a genocidal logic. While discussing the obsession with white (usually women) blackfishing to gain access and power within Black academic and organizing/political spaces, we get into how colorism factors into the benefits they are able to reap and how colorism is a facet of and cannot be delinked from anti-Blackness. Additionally, we speak to the uniqueness and defined nature of Blackness - specifically Black American culture - and the necessity in gatekeeping that culture, as well as why Ali hates seeing Black women find Black love.

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Episode 17: The Democrats Still Aren't Gonna Read Your Letters

In this episode, Jamel, Reny, Q and Nina talk about the economic impacts of COVID on Black people economically, including small businesses, and the fact that how money is produced and circulated in the US is a lie. Additionally, we discuss Black liberal academics and media pundits trying to scapegoat Black men to elevate Joe Biden in the hopes of getting more jobs, access and validation from whiteness via the democratic party.