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Ratchet & Respectable

Privilege, Power & Prada

Ratchet & Respectable

Demetria L. Lucas & Studio71

Tv & Film, News, Entertainment News, Society & Culture

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Demetria interviews a "Friend-in-Her Head" multimedia artist and cultural expert Kenya (Robinson) about the creation of privilege (including Demetria's inner Susan), embracing fear, why Blackface won't go away, rituals/symbols of White Power, and whitewashing Motown at the Grammys.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Music

0:10.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, you're listening to Ratchet and Respectable with Demetria

0:15.6

El Lucas.

0:16.6

Music

0:23.0

Hey y'all, welcome back.

0:25.0

I am so excited about this week's episode.

0:27.7

I had such an amazing treat this week and I hope it's a treat for you too.

0:32.0

So several years ago, I read this article on Huffington Post about this art project called

0:37.0

White Man in my pocket.

0:38.9

Black woman lives in Brooklyn.

0:40.5

She literally carries this little white man and all his associated privilege in her

0:44.7

pocket to like give her extra waivos to go out into the world when she needs to get

0:49.5

shit done.

0:50.5

So this is about 2015.

0:53.4

And from that Huffington Post article, I came up with the idea of embracing my inner

0:58.0

Susan.

0:59.0

She is my inner white woman.

1:01.2

She's a brunette.

1:02.4

She only wears yoga pants.

1:04.1

She always has a cup of good coffee in her hand.

1:07.7

In my encounters in this world, I have never met anyone who has a greater sense of entitlement

1:12.7

and to have their needs met than a white woman who fits this description.

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