Black Women Own Guns Too and Finding New Lanes for Women Comics | Guest Spotlight
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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4.4 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Best selling author, publisher, and professor, Roxane Gay, joins Michael Kosta to talk about her new e-book, “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem,” her decision to buy a gun, and why only heterosexual, white men are allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights. Also, stand-up comedian Hannah Berner discusses her Netflix special, “We Ride At Dawn,” and how she’s finding her own path in comedy that doesn’t rely solely on late nights at comedy clubs with questionable dudes.
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| 0:41.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. Welcome back to the Daily Show. My guest tonight is a best-selling author, publisher and a professor whose new e-book is called Stand Your |
| 0:44.8 | Ground, A Black Feminist Reckoning with America's Gun Problem. |
| 0:48.3 | Please welcome Roxanne Gay. |
| 0:49.7 | Wow, all right. |
| 0:53.0 | All right. |
| 0:54.0 | What, what made you want to write this piece about guns? |
| 1:06.7 | A lot of different things, but my brother was a big gun owner, very enthusiastic about guns guns which was weird because nobody in my |
| 1:15.1 | family cares about guns and we were like oh where did this come from yeah and I |
| 1:19.7 | he kept trying to get my other brother and I to buy a gun and we were like, |
| 1:23.2 | uh, no we're good. |
| 1:24.5 | And finally he broke us all down and so I got my first gun and one of the things I noticed |
| 1:30.7 | at the gun store and at the gun range was that there were a lot of people of color and black women in particular. |
| 1:36.0 | And so I thought why are black women buying guns other than the obvious? |
| 1:41.0 | Well, why are black women buying guns? |
| 1:45.0 | Black women, I think, are buying guns simply because we often recognize that if we don't |
| 1:49.3 | protect ourselves, no one else will. |
| 1:51.8 | A lot of times, it's that we don't trust that the police will |
| 1:55.6 | come to our homes and protect us and in fact Sonia Massey's murder |
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