PREMIUM: Coleman Hughes Live in Melbourne

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Comedy

4.6 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Are we too focused on race? Have recent anti-racist movements like The Voice to Parliament and Black Lives Matter abandoned the colour-blind spirit of the civil rights pioneers?

Josh took to the stage for a special one-night-only Uncomfortable Conversations live event with Coleman Hughes, one of America’s most prominent authors and thinkers on the topic of race.

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, hello, hello.
0:07.0	Thanks for coming. What a lovely night.
0:11.0	Welcome, Coleman. Welcome to Melbourne.
0:13.0	I can't really say that. I'm not a Melbourneian, but I am an Australian, so I can say it.
0:17.0	I actually should say on behalf of the Wurundi people of the Kulin Nation, whose ancestors
0:24.0	past, present and future, I acknowledge and respect. Welcome on their behalf. Why are you looking
0:29.2	into my eyes? You're black, Coleman, that's why. This is not my issue. This is something that
0:35.9	Coleman, firstly, thank you very much for being here.
0:38.7	If you're fans of mine, thank you.
0:40.5	If you're not fans of mine, you're just fans of Coleman's.
0:43.0	Subscribe to uncomfortable conversations
0:44.5	because we have plenty more conversations like this.
0:46.4	And this will be an episode of the podcast as well.
0:49.7	I've mentioned the acknowledgement of country,
0:51.6	not totally in jest,
0:53.5	because one of the things
0:54.5	that Coleman has mentioned to me in the, what, five days, six days you've been in Australia
0:59.0	so far has been the prevalence of something that, I guess if you're over the age of 30, 35,
1:06.2	you grow up in a country where it would have been perceived as weird for people to get up on an award
1:12.0	ceremony at the Logies and start talking about the Wiradjuri people or something, right?
1:17.2	And now that's perfectly normalized to such an extent that I don't find it weird or necessarily
1:22.5	forced, but it strikes you. Why?
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