S E170: Funny Aida Gets Serious About Race

In Class with Carr

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Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Aida Rodriguez talks about her appearance in Tiffany Haddish's "They Ready" comedy showcase and also how Latinx should see themselves as part of the African diaspora. This is a powerful conversation on race with Karen Hunter and Drew McCaskill.

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0:00.0	This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the hub. A comedian, actress, writer, activist, New Yorker, by birth, yes.
0:17.0	Ida, Ida Rodriguez, I wanted to roll my r's and I didn't do that right.
0:24.0	Ida Rodriguez! I did that.
0:27.0	Yeah, you did. Thank you.
0:28.0	Thank you.
0:29.0	I'm just glad you didn't call me Rosario Dawson.
0:31.0	Oh, do you know.
0:32.0	Girl. Look, y'all look alike.
0:34.0	Look at here, because you're all black, so I could tell the difference between black people.
0:38.0	Anyway, there we are.
0:39.0	Yeah, so there's a guy from Saturday Night Live just got fired.
0:42.8	I was with him last night.
0:44.2	I saw him.
0:45.2	Are you? All right, how's his mood like?
0:46.6	How is he doing?
0:47.6	He's pretty, you know, he's pretty, you know, he's pretty, you know, like he's a comedian.
0:51.6	We are used to disappointment.'s the that's just yeah
0:55.2	you used to one day you know that's how it works one day you're like at the top of the
0:59.9	mountain and then the next day somebody is there to push you off.
1:03.4	And I have a lot to say about that because there's a lot to unpack about these issues
1:07.6	when it comes to political correctness, specifically when you're talking about
1:10.7	marginalized people.
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