So it's been a mess

you up and I'll spit you out

And I'll play with your babies

To the screaming shout oh yeah

So it's been a week

Another week of just a mess

Much ado about public comments made by a handful of NBA players

But the ensuing discussion about those comments also left me wanting more.

And by more, I meant amazing, brilliant black women to really parse this out with.

And so I am joined on this dope roundtable today by friend of the show Courtney Cox always a pleasure to have

Courtney here y'all know her from the many times we will have a conversation here she's the

assistant professor in indigenous race and ethnic studies department over at university of

Oregon but we also decide to spice some things up and give you a little bit race and ethnic studies department over at University of Oregon.

But we also decide to spice some things up and give you a little bit more today. So we are so thrilled to also be joined by Dr. Brooklyn Gibson,

whose ACLS Drive Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital digital humanities at the University of Illinois.

And that is amazing because that fellowship life is where it's at.

And also joined today by Dr. Candace Smith, who's an associate professor of political science at Duke

University. So we are suited and booted and ready to

kind of put some stuff on the table and and muck our way through it. I basically just want to

start by saying me, I know I, I know group chats were popping for a number of reasons.

But the one that I keep coming back to is when Courtney told me, right, of some of the research

that NBA players were saying they were doing talking about vaccination, including Trump

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