#86 Who Are the Ancestors Tho?

Tea with Queen and J.

Society & Culture

4.9 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2017

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Queen & J. are two womanist race nerds talking liberation, politics, and pop-culture over tea. Drink up! We discuss the politics of Black men’s hair, look for safe spaces for Black sexuality, explore casual Black on Black colorism, and are you an asshole if you hate Kwanzaa? This week’s hot list: New Year rituals & traditions, sisterhood in the restroom, cocaine or nah, Haitian Independence Day, is Kwanzaa problematic?, navigating mental health during the holidays, what happens when you buck shots?, the Museum of Sex, why is sex so white everywhere all the time, porn and slavery, black kink, group sex, adventure dating, Denzel & Viola in Fences, the Black family under white supremacy, everybody hates J., Michael Slager is a murderer, Black men and their hair choices, Rasta vs. impostah. Drink up! Tweet us while you listen! #teawithqj @teawithqj EVENTS Queen is hosting her first "Vision Board and Goal Setting Meet Up!" for Ms.Vixen magazine! Join us on January 15th at Von in NYC. Click the link for more info and to RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/vision-board-…ets-30625202806 WEBSITE www.TeaWithQueenAndJ.com SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter & Instagram: @TeawithQJ Facebook: www.facebook.com/TeawithQueenandJ Tumblr: teawithqueenandj.tumblr.com EMAIL teawithqueenandj@gmail.com DONATE www.paypal.me/teawithqj NOTES & EXTRA TEA This week’s closing clip features Viola Davis in August Wilsons “Fences” on broadway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5LLLU_qew 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 discussed the politics of black men's hair, look for safe spaces for black sexuality, explore casual black-on-black colorism, and are you an asshole if you hate Kwanza?
0:12.9	It's Tea with Queen and Jay people. Drink up. T with tweeter J. T with tweeter J.
0:28.4	What's up?
0:30.8	I'm good, yo.
0:34.4	Happy fucking black-ass New Year.
0:36.4	Happy Black-ass New Year.
0:42.0	We're into another year of caping for black people, caping for black women, fucking caping for black femmes, fucking caping for black everybody and everything.
0:48.2	And the trickle-down effect of that is real.
0:50.7	Always.
0:51.7	Yeah, yo.
0:52.4	Always.
0:53.4	How are you, man?
0:54.4	I'm great.
0:55.1	I'm coming off of the end of a cold. So I'm kind of nasally. I probably sound the same, but I feel like I don't sound the same. No, you sound the same. There's a tad nasal in there, but it's like it's indiscernible, I think. It's annoying. I need my nose back. I'm sorry. but I had a little bit of a dripage.
0:53.0	Yeah, they were trying to make me sick need my nose back. I'm sorry. But I had a little bit of a dripage.
1:12.3	Yeah.
1:12.5	They were trying to make me sick at my sister's house. That whole week that I was there, them kids were trying to make me sick. And so I've been taking an emergency every day. I still feel it. It's like whispering to me like we want your soul. But they're not going to get it. they're not gonna get it
1:08.4	I don't be taking things
1:09.3	I just be like I have a cold
1:10.4	and then it's like
1:12.1	I don't really get sick
1:13.3	oh They're not going to get it. They're not going to get it. I don't be taking things. I just be like, I have a cold.
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