#1701: Will You Be My Black Friend?

Our National Conversation About Conversations A...

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4.8 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Anna Holmes, Aisha Harris, Tanner Colby, and Gene Demby discuss what it’s like to be asked for advice on being better allies, and where to draw the line on when and where people of color should feel like they need to help white folks out.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:09.1	Hello, and welcome to our national conversation about conversations about race.
0:13.1	The weekly podcast where we discuss culture, identity, politics, power, privilege, and everything else in post-Trump America.
0:20.7	Or maybe it's pre-Trump America. Yeah, we're still pre-Trump. When do else in post-Trump America, or maybe it's pre-Trump.
0:21.8	Yeah, we're still pre-Trump.
0:23.0	When do we become post-Trump?
0:24.8	Hopefully in four years.
0:25.9	Okay.
0:26.5	Anyway, you could say all that or just call the show About Race.
0:30.0	I'm Anna Holmes, and joining me from the Panoply Studios in New York, specifically Brooklyn, are some of my best friends are black author, Tanner Colby.
0:37.7	Hey, Tanner.
0:38.4	Hey, Anna.
0:38.9	How's it going?
0:39.6	Also joining us, for the first time at least with me, is Ayesha Harris, who writes about culture for Slate.com and hosts her own podcast, represent.
0:47.4	Hey, Ayesha.
0:48.0	Hello.
0:48.6	Hi.
0:48.9	I'm glad you're here.
0:49.6	Thanks. And in D.C., Gene Demby, who hosts two podcasts as well as writing a lot for his employer NPR.
0:56.9	His podcasts are post-Boogee and NPR's Code Switch.
1:00.2	Welcome, Gene.
1:01.2	It was good.
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