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Jared Hill.

I'm so irritable.

True tea. I feel it. I feel it deeply.

It's so frustrating.

And I am Trevelle Anderson. Welcome back to the show folks coming up. We are going to get into a conversation about group chats because Jared has a lot of feelings about group chats.

But first, we have, I know I'm not alone in that.

But first, we have an ask fan tie. This is our segment where you can write in and ask us for some advice. But beware if you ask, we don't answer honey.

Our ask fan tie today comes from Michael Michael writes this week. I started a college class on the history of imperialism and nationalism in Africa.

Going over the syllabus, I saw that there's a big project worth 50% of my grade where I will need to write an alternative history for an African anti-colonial rebellion that failed.

I'm supposed to imagine a scenario where the revolt succeeded and resulted in the formation of a new African nation. The problem is that the project says that I'm to put myself in the role of a quote nation builder for this country.

Designing a flag writing the inauguration speech for the nation's new leader, etc. And all the life only just started learning about imperialism in Africa.

I'm pretty sure that having a scenario where I, a white American man, am the nation builder of a newly formed African country is pretty problematic to put it mildly.

I know it's just a pretend scenario for a class project, but it still makes me uncomfortable.

I reached out to my teacher and to his credit, he replied pretty quickly and acknowledged the problematic nature of the project.

He wrote quote, as for a next step, I am not sure yet, but I can say that I will inquire with colleagues about how we can approach this. It is a good learning moment.

Okay, considering all this, what do you two think are the proper next steps for me and or my teacher to take? I'm not really sure what else I should say to the teacher at this point.

Well, you know, as a professor at a major university, you better talk, yo shit.

I'm kidding. It still feels weird even just thinking about that. I will say that this one is a very irksome email, right?

I mean, well, more so, I like Evan irksome scenario to ask a student to be in, especially a white student, right?

And I mean, I saw this email when it came in.

Trevelle will tell you I don't normally read all the emails and I don't feel bad about that.

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