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The Jenkins & Jonez Podcast

Patreon Clip-Out: Verdict — Is Jay Gatsby Black?

The Jenkins & Jonez Podcast

Jenkins and Jonez

Basketball, Sports, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:09.8

Okay, let's talk.

0:11.7

The final evidence of whether or not Gatsby was a white passing black man, a slur written, scrawled on the front of his house.

0:22.7

Laving words.

0:23.8

Yeah, that is crazy.

0:24.9

That is not,

0:26.1

it is not revealed what that word was,

0:28.8

which is one of the few things

0:30.7

that Nick seems to call our attention

0:32.6

to like, I'm not,

0:34.1

I'm not saying what this is.

0:36.5

Like, he's really calling our attention to the fact that he's not saying what it is.

0:40.7

Was there any other evidence in this last section?

0:45.3

His dad's showing up.

0:47.2

And, you know, like I said, we're looking through the whole lens of him possibly being

0:51.0

black passing.

0:51.8

The fact that only one of his parents showed up, just his dad.

0:55.7

I didn't think about that.

0:57.5

Yeah.

0:58.1

And, you know, his dad, he's described as a white man.

1:01.5

And I do think that a white man, black wife would be way more acceptable and safer than a black man, white woman back in that era, right?

1:11.4

Like, that's some shit better get your lynch back then.

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