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🗓️ 12 August 2021
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Rihanna is now a billionaire but do Black billionaires make a difference for Black people?
Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Touré
Executive Producer: Adell Coleman
Senior Producer: Ryan Woodhall
Producer: Quinton Hill
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy Isham Tore. |
0:13.0 | And I'm Danielle Moody. |
0:14.1 | And someone we love, Rihanna, has become a billionaire. |
0:22.8 | Yes. |
0:23.7 | And salute to her. |
0:27.6 | She has conquered the beauty world in a way that as far surpasses what she did in the recording artist world. |
0:36.8 | She was a top recording artist, but she is a major business star. |
0:42.1 | But all of y'all out here celebrating this, like this is some communal victory, |
0:48.8 | I do not understand you, and we are not the same, because all billionaires represent the failure of capitalism and |
0:57.5 | millions of other people who must be poor so that the billionaire can sit on a gigantic |
1:03.6 | stack of money and we're going to go deep all through this on this show yeah i think that |
1:10.4 | in life not just like people want a fairy tale. |
1:14.7 | They love the fairy tale. |
1:16.0 | They love the idea of Cinderella scrubbing the floors and then magically she turns into, |
1:22.6 | ta-da, look at me. |
1:24.0 | I'm a billionaire, right? |
1:25.1 | Which would be the new Cinderella story in the 21st century. |
1:27.8 | She goes on Shark Tank. |
1:29.2 | Yeah, she sells her slippers. |
1:30.8 | And now it's on QVC. |
1:33.8 | So, like, I think that why people, particularly black people celebrate the billionaire status of a Rihanna, of a Kanye West, |
1:45.6 | is because their backstories make us believe that at some point in time, |
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