Price of Black Ambition

For Colored Nerds

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4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2014

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Price of Black Ambition: Spurred by Roxane Gay's essay in the Virginia Quarterly Review, FCN examines aspiration, satisfaction, the Talented Tenth and Jaden Smith. The text: www.vqronline.org/essays-articles/…e-black-ambition See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	what's good um i was gonna say chicken butt but that's not um it's what's up
0:12.8	chicken butt it's it's guess what chicken butt oh guess what chicken butt i don't know i'm
0:17.7	terrible with these things yeah well here we, here we are. Another week.
0:21.7	Another week.
0:23.1	Another day, another dollar.
0:23.9	Another dollar.
0:25.7	Today, what are we talking about today?
0:30.8	Today, well, we both read, I'm sure, probably a lot of you, read Roxanne. It just said a lot of you, and I laughed to myself.
0:32.8	What the fuck is listening um i'm sure a lot of you read roxan gay's really wonderful essay on the
0:39.7	price of black ambition this week and i know it both it really you know struck both of us and
0:44.5	oh i just you know we were you know every week we try to come up with it with a different topic
0:49.2	and sometimes we have to choose like make a composite topic out of, like, different elements, but this was enough.
0:56.0	Yeah.
0:56.5	I mean, I actually, sadly, I was not, I haven't been very well versed in Roxanne Gay's actual
1:03.0	body of work.
1:04.0	Like, I had heard of her.
1:05.4	I don't know where I got the notion that I didn't like her.
1:08.6	I remember you told me that the other day.
1:09.7	You made it sound like she had lied on you.
1:11.4	Like she did something real, real bad.
1:13.7	Then you were like, oh, Roxanne Gay, Roxanne Gay?
1:15.4	You said it like she owed you $50.
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