S***hole Country 1: Quote Unquote
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
January 2018. “Afia,” a 30-year-old Ghanaian-American who eats the food but doesn’t speak the language, just spent the holidays in Accra. She flies home to San Francisco, straight into a media s***storm.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Afia and I don't know what to do. |
| 0:16.0 | Let's start at the end. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm 30, the youngest of three and the daughter of Ghanaian immigrants. |
| 0:23.0 | Born in New York, currently living in California. |
| 0:26.0 | If you were to read my tender profile instead of just swiping right in the bikini pick, |
| 0:31.0 | which, hey, that's what it's there for. |
| 0:34.6 | You'd know I stay loyal to Biggie over Tupac and Sailor Moon over Biggie. |
| 0:40.5 | It's January 17th, 2018. Last week I returned to San Francisco after a month in |
| 0:49.4 | Ghana. I just spent the holidays with my parents and older brothers, all of us celebrating together |
| 0:55.3 | for the first time in five years. |
| 1:00.0 | The very next day, I awoke to some disturbing breaking news out of Washington. |
| 1:04.6 | Mr. President, will you give an apology for the statement yesterday? |
| 1:08.6 | Mr. President, did you refer to African nations to are shingle in the future. |
| 1:13.0 | Mr. President, are you a racist? |
| 1:15.0 | Mr. President, will you respond to these serious questions about the state, |
| 1:21.0 | which sir? |
| 1:22.0 | No, Mr. President, I'm talking to the president, I'm sorry. |
| 1:26.0 | Mr President, are you a racist? |
| 1:28.0 | When we started to describe the immigration from Africa. That's when he used these vile and vulgar comments, |
| 1:37.0 | calling the nations they come from sh footholds. I cannot believe that in the history of the White House in that overall office any |
| 1:45.6 | president has ever spoken of words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday. |
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