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Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Side Effects of Being a Token (with Sal Masakela)

Small Doses with Amanda Seales

Amanda Seales

Education, Self-improvement

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sal Masakela, host/modern-day Black renaissancer, joins us to discuss the nuances attached to the unique position of being in a unique position. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

So funky!

0:16.9

Ladies and gents, everybody all the listeners out there in the world is time for another

0:23.7

episode of Small Doses.

0:25.3

Now granted, I am only on two hours of sleep, but that doesn't change the fact that my

0:32.2

energy comes from a resource that is fueled by something other than slumber.

0:38.2

Today we'll be talking about side effects.

0:42.2

A being a token.

0:45.3

You know what a token is?

0:46.6

A token is when you are the one person representing your space in a bigger space.

0:52.9

So you might be the token gay guy or the token black person or the token any other ethnicity

0:59.3

than white person.

1:01.1

And a lot of times what happens in a token situation is you feel alone, you get isolated,

1:08.9

you also bear the burden of speaking on behalf of everybody else that shares the likeness

1:16.1

with you.

1:17.1

We're going to talk about that today with our guest, Monsieur San Marsequela, who was the

1:25.3

token black man at every, what was it called?

1:29.1

Why hosted the X games?

1:30.3

The X fucking games.

1:31.7

The X games.

1:32.7

You were the token black man at every X games that I watched.

1:35.5

Yep.

1:36.5

With 13 years.

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