Everybody Don't Need to Be in Everything Unless They are White: Empire Blues and White Lies
Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast
iHartEricka
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 107 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Y'all are defending as white man Ludwig because all we are saying is that on a musicological basis, |
| 0:06.0 | if in so much as blues is a prominent element of sinners, the omission of queer people was a glaring omission, a historical inaccuracy. |
| 0:16.8 | If this is a film about the blues where the blues plays a heavy role, and musicologically, it just doesn't make sense to not have queer people there. |
| 0:24.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.9 | If you're talking about the juke joint, as a lot of people have mentioned, and a lot of great scholars like Farah Griffin and other people who study the blues, they tell you, the juke joint was a place where you would go meet your pieces. |
| 0:37.2 | You would go and be doing |
| 0:38.9 | all type of gay shit that you couldn't really do out in the open during the 1920s and the 1930s. |
| 0:44.7 | That's where you would do it. Y'all think that gay people just came about recently. |
| 0:49.2 | Queer people, trans people just came about now. Right? The reason why you think that's because a white person told you. |
| 0:56.6 | And a lot of the things that y'all believe is because they told you. |
| 0:59.6 | And there's a belief, which is consistent with white people telling you, because a lot of people |
| 1:03.7 | said this too, is that black queer narratives are prominent right now. |
| 1:14.8 | How? Where? So we can go support it. Where? Where? There's more black queer movies than there are black cis head movies? |
| 1:23.2 | What's happening? What's happening? But this is what white supremacist Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump, is rallying against. This is why we see anti-trans legislation across the country is because they believe that with drag queens reading to children at libraries with shows like Pose or even ballroom being even more mainstream discourse. |
| 1:46.0 | I would say Rupal's Drag Race becoming way more popular in recent years. |
| 1:51.7 | All of that stuff made people worrisome about how they can control people. |
| 1:58.7 | Because at the end of the day, they don't care how you identify. |
| 2:01.6 | They just want you beholden to the state. |
| 2:03.6 | And if you're only going to be beholden to the state, |
| 2:05.8 | you think that you're just supposed to give to a man, |
| 2:09.7 | make food for a man as a woman, be a fucking incubator to babies. |
| 2:13.9 | And if you're a man, you're supposed to go off to war or support war, |
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