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Affirmative Murder

Freaknik Origins Part II

Affirmative Murder

True Story Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey what's up folks just a heads up this episode is the second half of a two

0:03.6

part or so if you have not listened to episode one of this go back and do so

0:08.2

so there's no confusion thanks for that what are you doing I told you this is

0:16.2

second part of a first part don't do that stop it all right friends so before

0:23.0

we dive back into things I wanted this is the perfect time for us to talk about

0:26.3

something that you talked about at a point in the first part of us podcasting

0:31.0

about Freaknik which was how this was the first kind of iteration of a bunch of

0:36.2

black people enjoying spring break and showing and being able to see imagery of

0:40.3

what that looks like because spring break has always been kind of seen through

0:44.8

the lens of predominantly white institutions when they do MTV does college

0:49.1

spring break is you know blonde blue eyed girls and bikinis and a smash

0:53.7

mouth and boy bands and you know people in the pools dancing it looks very

0:59.0

lavish to somebody who is from Baltimore or who is from a place that is not a

1:03.5

beach beach side if you're from Montgomery Alabama the MTV Beach House looks

1:08.6

like I'll never be there yeah but Freaknik took place in Atlanta in the middle

1:14.1

of a city there's no beach there's no sand it just as black people having a

1:17.9

good time in partying so can you speak to what that feels like because we

1:25.3

I think we both can speak to this the difference in going to I've never done

1:29.3

it but I would imagine going to a country concert and you can still have a

1:32.4

good time at the concert and going to go see you know Jarl Fatt Joe Jada

1:41.0

Kiss 2000s medley festival where it's like all black people that look like you

1:47.3

and you're not trying to fit in you can just be you be yourself yeah so that's

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