#78 A Spot of Tea - My President Was Black

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We reflect on 8 years of Obama Blackness in The White House, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and gentrification. Drink up! This week’s hot list: What kind of Black is Obama Black?, Is your DJ stereotyping the f!ck out of you?, wtf is happening in Dakota and why is it still happening?, another listener letter on whiteness at work, and we kvetch about gentrification again because they won’t be satisfied until this city ain’t this city anymore. 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 Libations to TK (@TastyKeish) for engineering portions of this episode at Bondfire Radio! Be sure to visit www.TastyKeish.net for more information on TK, and check out our fellow independent media friends at www.BondfireRadio.com #hirewomen 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. Libations 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 Libations 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 reflect on eight years of Obama's blackness in the White House, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Gentrification.
0:10.0	It's Tea with Queeneter Jay. Hi.
0:28.7	My name is...
0:30.7	Oh, we're on now.
0:32.9	I was going to...
0:33.8	I was going to do it.
0:34.7	Oh, I was done with it.
0:36.4	I couldn't carry it through. I was going to... know I went to YARL to see Eminem. Tell that story. I only went to go with my friend because she was really into him and I was like, okay, I'll go. We made signs and my sign. And my sign said Eminem melt in my mouth, not in my hand. Oh, my God. Yeah, we didn't make it upstairs because we got there late. Right. But they did put us on TV because there are signs being so X-rated. And my mom was like, because she's seen it on the replay. Oh, my God. What was that sound about? I was like, it was a joke Eminemian, and it was funny. We were trying to get on TV.
1:08.3	All right. Well, hi, guys. Welcome to Tea with Queen and Jay. We're two womenist race nerds talking shit over tea. I am Queen. I'm Jay. I'm Jay. I'm Queen. The brown, top heavy one. And you are Jay. No, I don't like what you're doing.
1:10.6	This is not how we do our intro.
1:30.8	Look, one time we met someone in person who only has this one here and it was like i don't know which one you are
1:35.3	i don't like i don't know who's who i don't like who's who i don't know who's who you fucked up
1:42.4	the intro i don't like it like that. I'm Queen. Thank you. I'm Jay. And this is Team with Queen and Jay. Three minutes later. Whatever. I had to say my Eminem story. Okay. No, that was important. Okay. That was important. That was like historical like stuff yeah yeah no that was
2:01.5	got my iPad over there little notes all right are your iPad
2:06.5	are you ready no you ready I'm here to work so what kind of tea are you drinking I'm
2:14.5	drinking Cameroomile what are you drinking Camero good shit Camamil you drinking? I'm drinking Cameroo. Good shit. Cammer male day.
2:18.9	All right. Haney's in the background tap dancing as always being a little puppy nuisance, but that's cool.
2:24.6	Slap all through the prep as always. Naturally. Wakes up when we start to record. Of course. If you guys want to follow along in the conversation for this podcast episode, you can hashtag T with QJ.
2:37.4	You can also add us if you need to at T with QJ on Twitter and Instagram, but we love the hashtag.
2:43.5	Yes.
2:43.9	And we've explained why.
2:45.2	We love the hashtag.
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