#152 White Supremacy Doesn't Care About Your Edges

Tea with Queen and J.

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🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… what the hell is happening on television? We discuss The Simpsons, The Problem with Apu, and a bunch of other shows that are giving us Black joy or causing us Black concern. We explore how white supremacist patriarchal capitalism is trying to fvck with our natural hair routines. And opinions that we didn’t ask for, like Kanye’s, your woman beating cousins on facebook, and Charles Barkley’s. This week’s hot list: DJ Ralph McDaniels & NY sh!t, our pets run we, we nah run dem, job advice when the world is too much, you are enough, The Simpsons, Hank Azaria is a better yt guy than he was a few months ago, Hari Kondabolu’s ‘The Problem with Apu’, television, do animated characters get away with problematic murder? American Dad, is Roger a problem? Is AtlantaFX fvcking with our Black joy? We want interracial couples to stop staring at us, Black Lightening, Scandal is done and we’re happy, Lavar Ball and the importance of loud Black men, mass incarceration, natural hair braiding, who’s allowed to braid who’s not, occupational licensure and capitalism, Kanye BEEN the same contrarian ass Kanye, #PayBlackWomen and more good ish. Segments: Tea Talk 14:00 - 48:00 News That’s Not News 49:30 - 52:05 Moment In Black Hair 52:15 -1:05 #PayBlackWomen 1:05:00 -1:07:00 The Pit 1:07:00 -1:20:00 Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj PAY BLACK WOMEN Shop Imported Hair Supply for custom made wigs! Instagram.com/importedhairsupply NOTES & EXTRA TEA Have you listened to our BONUS EPISODE live from #PodinLiveNYC? The people love it, and it’s full of gems and good vibes. Listen now: https://soundcloud.com/tea-with-queen-and-j/podinlivenyc-2018 Learn more about paid opportunites for formerly incarcerated individuals: https://www.drivechangenyc.org/fellowship/ Learn more about natural hair braiding and occupational licensure below: https://www.facebook.com/ajplusenglish/videos/1168462943295211/?hc_ref=ART0G7XkuYWegp0CyFUquyxAEsiAsVkyFSmy5l4ygwKpeign_W1zY6ipCtag-AdeSfA https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2018/03/13/tennessee-has-fined-residents-nearly-100000-just-for-braiding-hair/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2015/01/29/hair-braiding-and-occupational-licensing/#30ab6eee5dbd This week’s closing clip features Lizzo’s “Truth Hurts” Engineering by Indie Creative Network: www.icn.dj/ Libations to our friend Casey who helps keep this show running by giving his money to Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, check out his latest album Flight Risk available everywhere online now. You can find Ohene on instagram and twitter @ohenecornelius and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ohenecornelius/ Libations to T.Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.tflintvoiceovers.com/

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, what the hell is happening on television?
0:03.9	We discussed The Simpsons, the Problem with the Pool,
0:06.7	and a bunch of other shows that are giving us black joy or causing us black concerns.
0:10.9	We explore how white supremacist patriarchal capitalism is trying to fuck with our natural hair routines
0:16.2	and opinions that we didn't ask for, like Kanye's, your woman beating cousin on Facebook, and Charles Barclays.
0:22.5	It's tea with Queen of Jay, people. Drink up.
0:24.5	You ready. Is that a thing with tweeter Jay? Tee with Tweeter Jay.
0:33.6	Maya.
0:34.8	You ready? You ready. You ready? I'm ready. You ready. You ready ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. Is that a thing? Is that from something? It's a reggae song. It's called. Are you ready? That's what elephant man says in the beginning. You ready. Okay. You ready? Okay. I couldn't hear it in my black American Yankee voice. Maybe. Maybe. Maybe that's why I didn't register. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We are two womaness race nerds talking shit over tea. I'm Queen. I'm Jay and this is Tea with Queen and Jay. Ew. Hey. That was a good owl. I'm here for it.
1:28.5	Yeah, I'm always here for the owls. How are you today? I'm doing great. How are you today? I'm good. I'm good. I'm learning, especially as we do this every Sunday. I don't know that I'm just depressed every weekend. Yeah, you are. It doesn't matter what I do. Every weekend I feel underaccomplished. I guess because we work these nine to fives and like I don't know I feel like I feel like the weekend is my time to do the stuff
1:34.6	that I need to do that I didn't get to do all week what stuff what is this stuff I don't know I feel
1:38.9	like I feel like you do it during the week I need to clean my house I need to oh you don't do that
1:43.6	no I don't I need to clean my house. I need to like... Oh, you don't do that during the week. No. I don't. I need to clean my house. There are different little task thing. You know what? Honestly, if my house was clean, I'll feel good. Okay? The cleaning professional that I work with is coming over on Wednesday. So that will help. Yeah. But I just feel like I have so much to do in that regard and get rid of.
2:01.7	If my house was clean, I think maybe that would help.
2:04.3	Because I'm on a house mission for my space. I didn't need it to look like I lived there and love living there. Yeah. Yeah. So I get with you, like if your space. Right, right, right. I don't even need it to look like I love living there
1:58.8	Because you know I live the life of a bachelor
2:00.3	I'm wanting to look like I love living
2:01.5	Nah, I just need it to look like a human lives there
2:04.1	Yeah Right, right. I don't even need it to look like I love living there because you know I live a life of a bachelor. I wanted to look like I love living.
2:18.6	Nah, I just needed to look like a human lives there and not some sort of rat or ninja turtle, okay? That's all that I need. If it looks like that, then the rest, maybe I would feel good about, oh, I put this up and I did this. But now it's just I feel like I'm working from like negative 27 and
2:36.9	you know I don't know but I actually did do a lot this week I just feel bad about it yesterday we
2:42.3	were in a group text I know and we said the things we did and Jay said like six things it was like I
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