Welcome to Black People Love Paramore, a podcast, not about the band Paramore, but a show about the common as well as the uncommon interests of black people in order to help us feel a little bit more seen.

I am Sequoia Holmes.

And I'm Ryan Graham.

And before we get into the episode, if you have a second, take it and rate us five stars.

And I actually write out a review if you feel so inclined because the reviews are so fun. I don't know if you've looked at Apple Podcasts, but that's the only place where I think you can actually type out a review for the podcast. It is very, very fun. It's probably it's like I'm assuming very complimentary. It's very complimentary. It's so nice.

I mean, people do leave constructive criticism there as well.

Oh, okay.

Which I'm not, you know, I'm not opposed to. Actually, I do. I do love getting feedback. I do like getting feedback. I really do. So if you have constructive, yeah, don't be on some. Oh, your voice is annoying. I can't fix that. And it's not.

My voice is not annoying.

So let's start there.

But yeah,

if you have something constructive to say for truly,

where you're like,

I think this show would be better if you did.

X,

leave it there. But yeah, if you have something constructive

to say for truly where you're like, I think this show would be better if you did.

Leave it there. I'm not mad. I wouldn't be mad at that at all. But today's topic is 2016. I'm

colloquially saying summer 16, but really we're talking about the span of the year of 2016.

We might even throw in a little bit of 2015, maybe even a touch of 2017.

So bear with us.

I think that just speaks to the power of 2016.

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