Miss Simone

For Colored Nerds

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4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week, FCN discusses the genius of Nina Simone. We cover her music, life, writings, and what happens when you join a fight that might not end. We bookended this episode with a story from Brittany taken from ‘Jon Then Baltimore' and Nina’s gift. http://tab.bz/cjymu Big thanks to our intern Antonio Mendez!!!!! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	There's more than one recording of Nina Simone singing Mississippi, Goddamn.
0:04.2	There's two in particular, like one in 19694 and one in 1968.
0:08.1	The song came out in 1964.
0:09.5	I think she's performing at Carnegie Hall.
0:11.1	She has such pep and such energy.
0:13.0	And if you've never heard the song, you must be white.
0:16.5	And you must be white.
0:19.4	But she's performing with such pep and such energy
0:21.4	because it's clever
0:22.2	and she's in 1964
0:23.8	and she doesn't know that 65, 66, 66, 67
0:27.1	and 68 are coming, right?
0:32.0	Alabama's got me so upset
0:34.0	Tennessee made me lose my rest
0:37.4	everybody knows about Mississippi gone so upset. Tennessee made me lose my rest.
0:41.0	Everybody knows about Mississippi.
0:42.7	God. Damn.
0:45.5	Hi, I'm Eric.
0:46.9	And I am Brittany.
0:48.8	And we are for color nerds.
0:52.3	Yes, conversations that black people have, white people are not in the room.
0:53.3	Yes, yes.
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