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You Had Me at Black

Society & Culture, Black Stories, Personal Journals, Arts, Performing Arts, Black Storytelling, Storytelling Podcast, Documentary, Black History Month, Black Podcast, Black Voices

4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Kham gets into the college of his dreams but can't afford tuition. Until he has a great idea on 4-20. What starts off as a plot to make some quick cash turns into a full-on operation.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to you had me at Black. I'm Martina Abraham Zolunga.
0:05.6	This next story comes from CAM, a nerdy black kid who built a drug empire on his liberal
0:12.1	art school campus. Here's what happened.
0:15.2	I want you to breathe all this.
0:17.2	And I got... You're listening to you had me at black black light in the heart of the city.
0:35.0	Man, listen, man.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	Yeah.
0:39.0	This is You have me at as black and we live baby.
0:45.0	My story begins the moment I open my acceptance letter.
0:51.0	I run into the house. The letter's super heavy. I tear the cover off and I'm ecstatic to see that I got
0:59.0	into the super prestigious liberal arts institution. I thought that I had made it. I thought that this was the
1:05.9	pinnacle of all of my achievement. I was as giddy as a schoolgirl, pun intended, but
1:11.6	I had to skip all that stuff and I flipped through to the award
1:16.0	letter.
1:17.0	I had given a very comprehensive financial aid package and my heart drops to the floor because I still owe them $10,000. But I'm thinking
1:29.3	now I have to go here. I absolutely have to go to this school.
1:35.4	You know, it's this reckless determination,
1:38.4	this stubbornness that followed me from Chicago to the middle of nowhere.
1:46.2	I pack up my stuff and I go.
1:48.3	So my mom would always say, like I was a good kid, was quiet I kept to myself I like to play with
1:55.2	action figures when I had arrived at my school I'm a socially awkward kid and I
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