#250 Model Minority

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! On this episode… We get into the stereotype of Asians as the “model minority”, what it means to the white supremacist power structure that created it vs. what it means to Black folks like us. Then after the break a content warning for discussions of sexual assault as we talk about your rapey friends, coersion and the tragic ways men respond to allegations on the timeline. Sexual assault discussion begins at 1:04:41 This week’s hotlist - Everythings is a corona capsule, dance class at the crib, police brutality for Black folks, free masks for white folks, everything’s fine (sike!), Black & Asian solidarity, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, model minority - a myth vs a construct, The Grapevine, reading the room, Dussepalooza, Blogxilla, creep signs, coercion, are you an accessory to sexual assault, the creep in your crew, Black feminism and male friends, and mad other sh!ts. Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj and add #podin on twitter to help others discover Tea with Queen and J. podcast! WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: twitter.com/teawithqj Instagram: Instagram.com/teawithqj Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL & SPONSOR INQUIRIES teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj OR www.patreon.com/teawithqj Queen’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/CXV9ZDWZ3PP9?ref_=wl_share J.’s Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1NP09USMPJ0TB?ref=cm_sw_em_r_wl_ip_VEVWdvdDDemm0 ONLINE DANCE CLASS https://cumbedance.org WATCH THE GRAPEVINE The Relationship Between the Black and Asian Community episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkE1WOOwTCs&t=3174s Hashtags of the week: #MeToo #SayHerName #YouOkSis This week’s closing clip features the new Don Lemon dropping bombs, remixed by @kevchestnut: https://www.instagram.com/p/B_x-DHCFory/?igshid=19hnbbfev3pzq This episode was created, hosted and produced by Naima & Janicia Libations to our friend’s Domingo, Tokunbo, and D. Sindayiganza who help keep this show running by paying and supporting Black women. Libations to Ohene Cornelius for our show intro, keep up with him at https://ohenecornelius.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, we get into the stereotype of Asians as America's quote-unquote model minority, what that construct means to the white power structure that created it and what it means to black folks like us.
0:13.5	Then after the break, a content warning for discussions of sexual assault as we talk about your rapy friends.
0:19.6	It's Tea with Queen and Jay people.
0:21.4	Drink up.
0:38.0	What the fuck is up? Nothing.
0:38.5	What's up with you, girl?
0:39.6	Nothing.
0:40.5	You know, just in a house.
0:41.9	Just in the house.
0:43.3	You know what I do.
0:46.0	So exciting.
0:48.4	So in the house.
0:49.4	Ooh.
0:50.6	Hmm.
0:53.1	So new.
0:55.0	So different. It's a special. Maybe I don't know what Jay is talking about we are zooming so we can see each other
1:02.0	oh I wasn't talking about that I was just talking about the fascination of still being in the
1:06.7	fucking house oh for whatever week this is but we are zooming because normally we have been recording
1:12.2	remotely since before quarantine we were just like hey this don't look good let's just like
1:16.4	start remote recording but we were doing it with just audio because we wanted the sound to be good
1:22.1	so now we are still doing it that same audio way but we added Zoom so that we could actually look at each other and have expressions
1:31.0	and shit like that instead of feeling like we're sitting in a corona capsule just waiting
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