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Van Lathan's The Red Pill

083 – Art & Politics w/ Ferrari Sheppard and Sharis Rhodes

Van Lathan's The Red Pill

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4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

In this 2-part episode: Van sits down with artist and twitter firebrand, Ferrari Sheppard, to discuss the art world and how it treats black artists. He also talks with LA County Board of Supervisors Candidate, Sharis Rhodes, about her political journey and the current challenges facing Los Angeles.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Van Lathons the Red Pill where we give you the brutal reality of truth to

0:09.3

be brutal honesty of truth.

0:11.3

Two guests on a jumbo-sized episode of the Red Pill today. First guests

0:17.0

for our shepherd artist, musician, activist, reluctant activist, he says, and Twitter Firebrand, you guys might know Ferrari,

0:27.0

for taking on people on Twitter, for being one of the best contemporary artists around, we talked him about a great many things,

0:35.2

what it's like to be black in the art world, what it's like to live yourself expression,

0:41.1

some problems that he's had coming from the hood in Chicago to being one of the

0:48.5

hottest rising young painters and artists of his generation and just sort of the whole gamut of how he sees society,

0:58.5

how he sees his place in it, and how he uses art to affect culture and to change the world that he lives in.

1:07.5

Ferrari is an unbelievably interesting fellow with a lot of different ideas on things.

1:14.0

And he was going to tell you frankly on why he feels like he has to leave the hood behind.

1:20.0

He says it right there. Get away from it. Also, we talked to Sherese Rhodes. She is a very impressive young lady. She is running for a county supervisor,

1:35.4

county supervisor here in Los Angeles.

1:38.6

It's a very inspirational story.

1:40.2

This sister not too long ago was homeless with her young son and decided that she was going to get up and do something to change the system that failed her by reshaping it at the top of it.

1:57.2

I think that these are the stories and these are the people that, for the rest of my career, I'm going to want you guys to hear about.

2:05.8

Now, Sherese is a young politician.

2:08.7

She is still learning a lot about the process.

2:10.8

She's still learning a lot about what it takes to be successful as a

2:14.1

politician but listening to her one thing that you will come away with is that

2:19.8

there is a burning desire to be an agent for change and anytime that is present inside

2:26.4

of someone you'll see them get to the point of success that they want to get to and

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