#74 Because Black

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2016

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We spend most of this episode mapping the coordinates of the "inner city" because where is that sh*t really? Also prison strikes, NY Comic Con, and mental health. Drink up! This week's hot list: NY Comic Con panels and level one wokeness, hip hop & comic book culture, how to support Haiti hurricane relief initiatives, the national prison strike, slave labor to prison labor, Belly (the movie), the role of white women in the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, presidential debates and the mystery of the "inner city", the illegality of Blackness, and J. gets really personal about depression and mental health Tweet us while you listen! @teawithqj #teawithqj WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com NOTES & EXTRA TEA Pinkies up to Conscious for engineering this episode at Bondfire Radio! You can find him on twitter @Conscious, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com Please check out this incredibly detailed series of tweets by @DwayneDavidPaul for more information on Ramsey Orta and how you can support him and his family. #SupportRamsey twitter.com/dwaynedavidpaul/sta…/752200478918840320 You can make a donations via PayPal through the email address ortaramsey@gmail.com where Ramsey and (once incarcerated) his wife Bella, manage the account directly. J.'s sister is documenting her journey with breast cancer. Follow her on at jasmineses.tumblr.com and on twitter & instagram @jasmineses to offer words of support or to gain some of for your own journey. And if you'd like, please donate and/or share her go fund me page: www.gofundme.com/t6e5wew Check out www.capitalizetheB.com to join the movement and sign the petition for the AP Stylebook to capitalize the letter B when referring to individuals of African descent as Black. Petition: www.change.org/p/the-new-york-ti…m_medium=copylink Help insure that undocumented immigrants have access to clean water in Flint, Michigan through the Latino Collaborative: www.crowdrise.com/watercrisisinfli…inocollaborative We won't forget about Monique and Larissa. To learn more about the Free Monique and Larissa from Kuwait campaign click here: www.change.org/p/free-monique-an…risoned-in-kuwait Last year activists, protestors, and researchers across the nation launched Campaign Zero, a comprehensive plan to end police violence. Check out www.joincampaignzero.org to get more information on the plan and see where the 2016 presidential candidates and your local politicians stand. Pinkies up 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 online at www.ohenecornelius.com Pinkies up to T. Flint for our News That's Not News intro! Find him at www.TFlintVoices.com

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0:00.0	This week on Tea with Queen and Jay, we spend most of the episode mapping out the coordinates of the inner city.
0:06.2	Because where is that shit, really?
0:08.0	Also, prison strikes, Comic-Con, and mental health.
0:12.0	It's Tea with Queen and Jay, people.
0:13.6	Drink up. Queen of Jay Tea with Queen and Jay What's up, yo?
0:27.0	Hey!
0:27.5	Hey, guys.
0:28.7	Welcome to the show.
0:29.6	Welcome to the show.
0:30.3	Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay.
0:31.8	I'm Queen.
0:32.7	I'm Jay.
0:33.5	We're two womaness race nerds talking shit over tea.
0:37.0	And this is Tea with Queen and Jayay what kind of tea are you drinking
0:40.4	be sure to follow the conversation by using the hashtag yes hashtag te with q j um yeah i like to
0:48.7	check up them hashtags and see what you're saying about us do that do that like the hashtags uh that's a
0:53.5	twitter thing and just
0:54.8	FYI we're at t with QJ on Twitter um but we of course prefer to use the hashtag so we can
1:00.4	follow the conversation sometimes if we're getting a lot of tweets it's harder to see what you're
1:04.8	saying yeah than it is to see okay now I just have three Twitter accounts so it's it. So it's a lot. Well, you're a rapper. So. Yo, this dude on my way to the studio, he's like, yo, I know you. You're that rapper. What? You want, let me make some beats for you. And I started walking faster. It was like a real life SoundCloud. Sp spam. It was weird. That's what it was.
1:29.8	That's what it was. What kind of tea are you drinking? I'm drinking jasmine green tea.
1:33.5	What kind of tea are you drinking some fucking lukewarm ass cold ass fucking bodega tea. But no,
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