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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | So be a beautiful bastards, hope you've been a fantastic Monday. |
0:03.0 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. |
0:06.4 | The first thing we're going to talk about today is this story and controversy coming out of Detroit. |
0:10.1 | There's this music festival coming up called Afro Future Fest. |
0:12.8 | And the reason the spotlight fell on them is that reportedly they are charging white people a premium to attend. |
0:18.1 | The festival is reportedly taking place in a historically black Detroit neighborhood. |
0:21.4 | And according to one of the events, organizers on Twitter, |
0:23.3 | oftentimes when dope events happen in Detroit, |
0:25.2 | the cheapest tickets are bought and then sold by people not from the community |
0:28.3 | because they can afford them first, leaving higher priced tickets as the only options left. |
0:32.2 | Black and brown people deserve access to quality events in their city |
0:35.2 | and it isn't fair when events happen in their city that they don't have a chance of |
0:38.2 | being a part of because people who don't look like us take advantage and also have |
0:41.8 | more access to collective wealth. |
0:43.2 | And so what we ended up seeing reportedly you had early bird tickets purchase before July 17th |
0:47.2 | costing $10 for people of color and $20 for white people. |
0:50.7 | And then tickets purchased after that would jump to $20 for people of color |
0:54.0 | and $40 for white people. |
0:55.4 | Now of course as you might expect there was a lot of controversy |
0:58.1 | after this news got out there. |
0:59.4 | You had people saying this is disgusting, some calling it racist or bigoted. |
1:03.0 | But also you have people supporting the move, |
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