Welcome to Fantai, beautiful people, the podcast for all those complex and complicated conversations about the gray areas in our lives.

I'm journalist Travel Anderson.

I am journalist and writer Jared Hill.

Coming up on the show, we're going to be talking about why HBCUs

are a different world and our tough question at the top of the show

is also related to that conversation.

Tough questions are questions that are tough because there's not quite frankly an answer

that is easy to arrive at.

This week's topic comes from our producer Laura Swisher who sent an article from Very Smart Brothers if you're not familiar the SB

First of all where have you been

But the headline reads,

case for and against rocking gear from a college

you didn't graduate from or attend.

In the article, writer Panama Jackson argues

both sides of the agile debate of should you be wearing that

and he joins us to break it all down right now welcome to fancy Panama.

Yeah glad to be here thanks for having me. So, set it up for us.

How did you come to even present this question of whether or not we should be wearing paraphernalia

from HBCUs we didn't attend?

Or really any college that we didn't attend? Right. I mean, I think it's more of a college thing, but the HBCU question becomes more

pressing for black folks generally speaking, at least in my world which is mostly HBCU attendees or graduates.

It's kind of two-pronged. One, there was a conversation going on. is mostly HBCU attendees or graduates.

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