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Toure Show

Lynae Vanee–I’m Gon Keep It Black

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Lynae Vanee is a brilliant, powerful sister who rose to fame with her IG video series Parking Lot Pimpin where she breaks down racism with her own particular swag and her MA in African-American Studies in her pocket. Somebody please give this woman a show. In the meantime I loved our conversation about her mind and her journey. Toure Show Episode 262 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good sort of race show, okay though, good

0:03.8

race show, okay though. One of my favorite young intellectuals is

0:23.3

Leneveney, who you might know from Parking Law Pimpin

0:29.0

on Instagram, her Friday series, where she keeps it black but she keeps it brief. She comes to

0:37.8

this from teaching from academia from being an intellectual with a master's in African American studies,

0:48.0

which I could feel, because when she does her thing,

0:51.0

it's like she's teaching.

0:54.3

Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days.

0:58.4

There is a woman who went the distance,

1:00.9

who broke ground as the first true influencer by living a remarkable life.

1:07.0

Her name Elizabeth Taylor.

1:10.0

I'm Katie Perry.

1:12.0

This is the story of the original influencer. This is Elizabeth

1:17.0

the first. Elizabeth the first, the podcast wherever you listen.

1:24.0

I know from from knowing people on the AUC

1:30.0

and being around there, especially Morehouse and Spellman, the sense of pride in blackness, in self,

1:39.4

the self-esteem that they injected into y'all, the sense that you guys are important

1:45.0

members of the community. I mean like people walked around Morehouse's

1:51.7

Spellman like they were God's gift. But like for black people to feel like that is a beautiful thing, right?

1:58.3

And they needed that uplift. And I feel like that sense very much lives, that Spellman woman thing lives in you.

2:08.5

Indeed it does. I'm not sure exactly how long this was the motto, but it was there before I got there until it's today, but there's a song that we learn, not just our hymn, but another one that's like our theme song and it's my choice and I choose to change the world.

2:24.8

And so there's this motto, there's this kind of unspoken thing amongst Spellman grads that when we go out to the world

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