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Toure Show

Michael Harriot–I Write Black AF

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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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! Michael Harriot is a writer whose work is deeply Black. He’s smart, he’s insightful, he’s powerful, he’s funny, he’s in love with Black people. I found him on Twitter @michaelharriot where his tweets are awesome and now I’m checking out his book Black AF History. He’s got a fascinating mind. Toure Show Episode 260 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 Tour racial, okay though, good tour race show, okay though. There is such a thing as being black famous the writer Michael Harry coined this term to mean well let

0:27.5

him define it.

0:29.7

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

0:34.0

There is a woman who went the distance, who broke ground as the first true influencer

0:40.0

by living a remarkable life.

0:42.5

Her name Elizabeth Taylor.

0:45.9

I'm Katie Perry.

0:47.3

This is the story of the original influencer.

0:50.9

This is Elizabeth the first.

0:55.0

Elizabeth the first, the podcast, wherever you listen.

1:00.0

You have a really interesting notion about Black Famous,

1:04.6

which you put out as one word.

1:07.0

And I think it's a concept that a lot of people

1:09.2

were aware of, but hadn't named in that way, hadn't fully articulated in that way.

1:15.0

And in some ways the cultures are becoming more kind of integrated.

1:23.9

I think when you and I were growing up,

1:25.2

there were definitely like people like,

1:26.7

like white people did not care about P-Funk.

1:28.6

White people did not care about Rick James, right?

1:30.8

They did not care about Al Green, and these people were legendary to us.

1:35.0

We get to the 80s and 90s, there's more crossover, there's more people who are loved by both cultures.

1:42.0

But you threw out a question, I didn't I know either you

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