Introducing Come Through with Rebecca Carroll Featuring Issa Rae

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4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Hey SMWGers! WNYC Studios has a new show you might like! It's called Come Through with Rebecca Carroll: 15 Essential Conversations About Race in a Pivotal Year for America. In this episode, Rebecca is joined by very special guest Issa Rae to talk about the return of Insecure, how she’s supporting the next generation of black artists, and why black audiences matter the most to her. And how cookie dough is getting her through coronatine.

More about Come Through with Rebecca Carroll:

It’s an election year, and whether people want to admit it or not, race is at the center of every issue -- healthcare, jobs, climate change, the media, and more. Join host Rebecca Carroll for 15 essential conversations about race in a pivotal moment for America. She talks to great thinkers, writers, and artists about faith, representation, white fragility, and how it’s all playing out in 2020.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's me, Johnny Mitch, and I just wanted to pop in and tell you about a new
0:09.2	podcast from W and My C Studios. It's called Come Through with Rebecca Carroll, 15 essential
0:15.7	conversations about race in a pivotal year for America. And in it, Rebecca talks to great
0:21.4	thinkers and artists, religious leaders, and more about how race and racism are playing
0:26.3	out during this election year. And this week, she talks to Issa Rae. I know that we are
0:31.6	all so, so, so happy that insecure is back, and this conversation is just funny and smart
0:37.2	and thoughtful, and I thought you all might like it. So enjoy. I hope that you're staying
0:43.1	safe and staying in and taking care of yourselves. And without further ado, here it is, Rebecca's
0:49.4	conversation with Issa Rae.
0:58.1	I'm Rebecca Carroll, and this is Come Through, 15 essential conversations about race in
1:03.6	a pivotal year for America.
1:11.3	Celebrities are a strange breed, a privileged tribe of attractive people, many of whom live
1:17.8	and breathe rarefied air, lounging around in big houses, sifting through film scripts,
1:23.6	project treatments, or late night TV appearance requests. In America, we created this cult
1:29.6	of celebrity as a way to worship that which we desired. And what America has always desired
1:36.0	in addition to wealth and success is whiteness.
1:41.1	In fact, when we talk about mainstream media or mainstream popular culture, what and
1:46.7	who we're really talking about is white people. Black folks, despite our substantial, consistently
1:54.0	game changing contributions to music, film, art, sports, literature, and American culture
2:01.6	at large, have been relegated to niche markets throughout history, no matter how talented,
2:08.7	known, or productive we are. But that has changed in recent years. Right now, we're experiencing
2:15.3	what a lot of black creatives consider, a changing of the guard, an opportunity to level
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