#299: But... But You're Blek (@LoyisoGola)

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🗓️ 1 August 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Loyiso Gola met me in Montreal to give me a bit of an introduction to South Africa. Loyiso is one of the biggest comics in South Africa so he was the perfect guy to tell me about a country I knew very little about. It's an interesting discussion that diverted into American media, rules of cricket, and crime rates.

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0:00.0	I'm a black person so my experience is not, our experiences are very vast.
0:08.0	A very what?
0:09.0	Vast.
0:10.0	Right?
0:11.0	So I'm a vast vast.
0:13.0	So I got that.
0:14.0	So it annoys me when I see a slave movie.
0:20.0	A slave movie?
0:21.0	Because that's not, slavery is not black history.
0:26.0	It's not what it means to be black.
0:28.0	Right.
0:29.0	And it's a, it's a bizarre thing to say because that's an American narrative of blackness,
0:35.0	which is not necessarily applicable to someone who lives in Nigeria.
0:39.0	Joseph's face was black and white, but pale and no moon, shown in his eyes.
0:52.0	His path was marked by the stars in the southern hemisphere.
0:59.0	And he walked his days under African skies.
1:06.0	This is the story of how we begin to remember.
1:10.0	The college of the Liddava women.
1:13.0	This is the powerful pulsing of love in the rain.
1:17.0	The college of the Liddava women.
1:20.0	Out to the dream of falling and calling your name.
1:24.0	At my lunch at the Liddava head.
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